Lean - Kanban Workshop

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The workshop will start off by familiarizing participants with Lean Software Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices by providing them with practical examples and hands-on exercises to help them understand and experience some of them.

The workshop then will walk the participants through a series of steps to help them learn how a "Kanban System" can be implemented to start putting the Lean Principles that they have learned into practice.

The Kanban exercises within the workshop are such that they can be applied to the team's unique needs and circumstances to their work situations. Thus the workshop addresses the team's key challenges and thereby maximizes their learning, retention, and engagement.

The workshop is for team members, select Vendor Associates, and Managers who are now interested in learning about the Lean Software Development process – and how to implement it using “The Kanban Method”. Each workshop will accommodate multiple teams (up to 4 teams or 20 people, max). The members of the individual teams will be working together in learning the Principles and Practices associated with Lean and Kanban.

Introduce participants to Lean Software Development and provide a historical context of Lean
Create awareness of Lean Software Development's ideas, explain the rationale behind them
Have teams get started in thinking about and identifying improvement opportunities at their workplace using Lean ideas
Receive an introduction to "The Kanban Method" - as a way of implementing Lean Principles
Learn the values, principles, and practices associated with Kanban & their significance and importance
Know how to go about implementing a "Kanban System" through the steps of:
- Visualizing workflows (sometimes referred to as Value Stream Mapping)
- Designing Kanban boards to support their individual team's workflow
- Identifying some of their work items types
- Design of Kanban ticket and what information is important to capture
- The ways that they can go about deciding WIP limits
- Using various techniques to enable the flow.
Speak on various meetings and their cadences while answering questions on how these differ from similar Scrum meetings
Learn Kanban Metrics what is measured, why, and how they can be used towards goals and objectives
A demonstration of an online Kanban simulation will demonstrate how Kanban will likely work in the actual software development environment (subject to Internet access)

Introduction to Lean in IT & Software Development
An Introduction to Kanban
Push vs Pull
Batch Sizes
Identifying Waste
Work in Process Limits
Kanban Boards
Work Items
Cumulative Flow Diagrams
Control Charts

Team members, select Vendor Associates, and Managers who are interested in learning about the Lean Software Development process and how to implement it using "The Kanban Method".

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