Kanban Training

We offer open Kanban trainings with David Anderson in Germany!

What is Kanban?

Kanban is a new lightweight approach to evolutionary change in software development that transfers principles from the Lean Production/Toyota-Production-System to the software development. In this context, two rules are defined:

  1. Each process takes work from the previous process (pull principle) in order to avoid overloading.
  2. Work in progress is restricted so that no expensive stocks accumulate.

Advantages of Kanban

Kanban can be introduced with relatively little effort into existing software development environments and also works with a strong division of labour.

Moreover, Kanban delivers an useful perspective to consider the entire value chain beyond the pure software development. For this reason, Kanban is also interesting for companies which are for example already applying scrum successfully for the development.

Agenda

We offer two day kanban trainings with David Anderson.

Day 1: Kanban mechanics

  • Introduction using "Kanban In Action" cartoon
  • Introductory exercise: Demand Analysis
  • GetKanban Game
  • Value-Network Mapping
  • Visualiation
  • Work Item Types
  • Exercise: Map the value network, visualize it, define work item types
  • WIP Limits
  • Classes of Service
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Exercise: Determine classes of service, WIP limits, service level agreements, show how these relate to the Demand Analysis from Intro Exercise 

Day 2: Why Kanban? & Improvement Opportunities

  • Intro: What is Kanban?  XP 2010 Key Note Speech "Defining Kanban - the value of creating a Limited WIP Society in your organization"
  • Recipe for Success
  • XIT Case Study
  • Corbis Collaboration Study
  • Economic Cost Model for Lean (Waste)
  • Bottleneck Management
  • Introduction to Understanding Variation

For whom is this training?

The training is suitable for:

  • Management
  • Projekt Managers
  • Developers

Data Frames

  • 25./26. January 2012 (Munich) und
    28./29. February 2012 (Munich)
  • Language: English
  • Fees: 1,700 EUR (net). We grant 10% discount in case of registration 5 weeks in advance. We grant 10% more discount in case of registration of a further colleague from the same company. Both reductions can be combined.
  • Registration: Please use the contact form.

All attendees get a free copy of the Kanban book by David Anderson and a t-shirt "Yes we Kanban!"

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The Trainer

David J. Anderson leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has many years management experience leading teams on agile software development projects. David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the creation of Feature Driven Development. He was also a founder of the APLN, a non-profit dedicated to improving management and leadership in technology companies. Recently David has been focusing his attention on business agility and enterprise scale agile software transitions through a synergy of the CMMI model for organizational maturity with Agile and Lean methods.