Applying Professional Kanban (APK)

Are you always busy and yet you struggle to deliver consistently? Perhaps you are frustrated that you spend ages estimating, but you can't get rid of the feeling that the estimates are not great? Or maybe you are never sure what's coming next and why? Applying Professional Kanban will save you time, give you the focus you crave, and help you deliver more consistently.

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What Are the Benefits of Applying Professional Kanban?

Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organisation’s delivery of customer value. In today’s always-on environment, you need a clear set of practices that do not get in the way. Applying Professional Kanban will:

Generate a shared understanding of your work
Give you focus
Save you time
Answer the question, “How long will this take?”

The Applying Professional Kanban (APK) course will give you an in-depth introduction to improving your team’s effectiveness by applying Kanban flow principles.

During the class, you will learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective. With an emphasis on the practical application of concepts, this course includes many hands-on exercises that will lead you through the steps of setting up and operating a Kanban system for continuous value delivery and improvement.

Learning Outcomes of Applying Professional Kanban (APK)

After attending this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the basic principles of flow.
Describe the value of Limiting WiP.
Create a visual board to manage your work.
Capture and interpret key flow metrics and analytics to find improvement opportunities.
Explain why flow should be focused on value delivery
Define, build, operate and continuously improve a Kanban system.
Discuss how tooling impacts your implementation.

Agenda

Module 1

Kanban in your workplace
Dispelling Kanban Myths
The WiP Game (TWiG) Kanban Simulation Round 1
Exploring Kanban

Module 2

Visualisation Elements and Techniques
Elements of Workflow
Core Flow Metrics
Cycletime Scatterplots and Service Level Expectation

Module 3

Little's Law and Flow Metrics
Actively Managing Flow
The WiP Game (TWiG) Kanban Simulation Round 2
The Implications of Kanban and Flow Thinking

Module 4

Designing a Kanban Board
Work Item Design
Operating a Kanban System
Applying Professional Kanban

Certification

The Applying Professional Kanban (APK) course is associated with the Professional Kanban I (PK I) certification by ProKanban.org.

All participants completing the Applying Professional Kanban course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Kanban I (PK I) assessment . The industry-recognized PK I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. If you attempt the PK I assessment within 14 days of receiving the password and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a second attempt at no additional cost.

Audience

The Applying Professional Kanban course is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to deliver value and be more effective. Typical attendee roles include:

Business Analysts
Agile Coaches
Scrum Masters
Product Owners
Product Managers
Project Managers
Team Leads
Team Members

Prerequisites

Participants on this class need to have read the Kanban Guide. No working knowledge of Kanban is required.

Summary

Duration: 4 x 3-hour live virtual sessions
Certification: PK I by ProKanban.org (after passing the exam)
Frequency: 6 public courses a year
Private Courses Available: Yes
Languages: English or Spanish
Payment Formats: Credit Card, TransferWise or by Invoice
Payment Currencies: GBP, EUR or USD
Contact: education@actineo.email
What's included:
- Token to take PK I Assessment
- 14 PDUs for Project Management Institute and 14 SEUs for Scrum Alliance
- Access to the Actineo Newsletter
- Access to the Actineo Slack channel
- Invites to exclusive Actineo Events
- Membership of the Actineo Alumni Network including 20% discount on future courses

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Why Choose Actineo for Applying Professional Kanban Training?

Kanban Course Attendees Trained

1,425

Kanban Courses Delivered

150

Years of Combined Kanban Training Experience

14+

Our Actineo Team includes industry-leading trainers who are also Kanban experts. We have spent time mastering the art of practicing Kanban, so we have great experience from the trenches. We bring concepts like Flow and Business Efficiency to life, because we bring stories as well as theory to our Applying Professional Kanban Training. Don't just take our word for it.

What our attendees say

“Great trainers, facilitation, and mix of theory and practice. Good discussion and learning opportunities and I loved TWiG, what a brilliant literal way to get your hands dirty with Kanban and understanding flow.“

Rachel Knight
Agility Coach, UK.

“The course was great and so were the trainers – brilliantly delivered and I would certainly recommend this course to other colleagues. Thank you to Jose and JP for a great course and delivering it in a tough environment virtually.”

Keith Svenson
Planning Lead, UK.

“I have been in a couple of Kanban classes – this was the first time that I really understood the connection between Flow, Work in Progress, and Cycle Time.”

Yasemin Olga
Agility Coach, Azerbaijan.