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Increasing Efficiency with Kanban

5 Courses
11 Hours
Skill IQ

This skill path will teach you how to design, build, operate and measure a kanban system to achieve significant benefits for you, your team and your organization.

We will talk about how Kanban can increase productivity and throughput.. By applying Kanban you can achieve a sustainable pace of development or throughput since Kanban flushes out issues that impair performance and enable teams to focus on resolving issues quickly. Kanban makes obvious the impacts of defects, bottlenecks, workflow changes, costs, schedules and throughput by providing easy visibility into quality and process problems. The combination of improved workflow and increased quality drives shorter lead times and improves predictability and schedule performance.

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Advanced

In this advanced section we will talk about how to thoughtfully transition from scrum to kanban in a methodological way while leveraging your existing scrum knowledge. Understanding and leveraging value streams are essential in optimizing your workflow processes. All processes can have a variety of roadblock types and we will explore how to unblock and improve workflow. Lastly we will cover the importance of metrics and management reporting in ensuring your Kanban is running smoothly and efficiently.

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What You'll Learn
  • ###What You Will Learn:
  • LEAN principles
  • How to get started with Kanban
  • How to manage workloads with Kanban
  • How to deploy value with Kanban
  • How to transition from Scrum to Kanban
Prerequisites
  • No prerequisite knowledge needed.
Related topics
  • Scrum
  • Agile
  • Lean
  • Jira
  • Project Management
  • Teamwork
  • Business Management
  • Product Management
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