Gain insights into Kanban fundamentals, delve into designing Kanban systems, and learn how Kanban can improve Scrum practices to boost developer productivity effectively.

This course will introduce you to Kanban fundamentals. You will begin by studying the origins of Kanban as a method for designing and improving knowledge work. 

Later in the course, you will be taught the core practices of Kanban to successfully design a Kanban System at the team level. Then, you will learn how to use Kanban to improve your Scrum practice. At the end of the course, you will be introduced to the process of designing a Kanban system.

Kanban Fundamentals: Boosting Developer Productivity

>A Kanban board is the representation of a Virtual Kanban System where the pull signals and work-in-progress are representations of the actual work happening in your team’s computers and the cloud.

The Kanban system comprises a set of policies governing how we intake, deliver, manage, and visualize work.

The pull signal is generated when the current work-in-progress in a column gets below the WIP limit for that column.
In addition to the policies, we also recommend that you complement your Kanban board with a visualization of your service levels, team’s objectives, metrics, and performance charts, which you can see on the right-hand side of the picture.

In the image above, you can see an example of an advanced Kanban board.
Even if you are just getting started with Kanban, you can definitely advance to such a level in only three months.

The picture below is an example of the result of coaching a team for less than three months:

As you can see, the dashboard above includes most of the fundamental visualizations of an advanced virtual Kanban system.

# Kanban board glossary
The following is a list of most of the concepts that you should include in your Kanban board with time.

Introduction

Improving Flow

Kanban Fundamentals

Kanban to Improve Scrum

Kanban System Design

The Final Note

Understanding Kanban Boards