Kanban: Getting Started
This course will teach you to apply the principles of kanban to your professional and personal life to reduce stress and waste and increase flow.
What you'll learn
Are you trying to improve your everyday flow in both your personal and professional life? In this course, Kanban: Getting Started, you’ll learn to use kanban to improve the constant stream of work in your personal life and on teams. First, you’ll explore the principles of kanban and flow. Next, you’ll discover how to apply these principles to visualize your work and maximize flow. Finally, you’ll learn how to apply the kanban method to team workflows. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of kanban needed to effectively use it to be more responsible and effective, personally and professionally.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- What Is Kanban? 2m
- How Is Kanban Used in Everyday Life? 5m
- Where Does Kanban Originate? 2m
- Measuring Utilization vs. Measuring Flow 2m
- Basic Kanban Principles 5m
- Cycle Time vs. Lead Time 4m
- Improving Responsiveness 3m
- Finding Waste with Value Stream Mapping 5m
- Introducing a Free Kanban Tool: Trello 7m
- Key Takeaways 3m
- Introduction 2m
- Applying Kanban to Individual Work 2m
- Replacing To-do Lists 4m
- Getting Started with Personal Kanban 10m
- Dealing with Blocked Tasks 3m
- Defining Productive, Efficient, and Effective 2m
- Planning using Kanban 5m
- Prioritizing using Kanban 4m
- Applying Priority Filters 3m
- Creating a Portable Kanban Board 1m
- Using Kanban for Kids 2m
- Key Takeaways 1m
About the author
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable app... more