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Kanban Workshop - Foundation Course

Date: 28th Jun 2014 at Bangalore

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Overview:

Short time-boxes give more frequent opportunity to measure progress and inspect software but force development items to be smaller, smaller development items are often too small to be valuable and difficult to identify. Pure continuous flow Kanban systems work very well when your backlog includes minor enhancements and support related items. There is no need here for strict time-boxes, instead a regular continuous flow optimized process for delivering predictable value with no bottle necks. More and more organizations are adopting Lean and Kanban as part of their Agile Transformation. This course will help you understand Kanban Principles and also Agile, Scrum and Kanban all fit together to deliver value for your organization. This course is very much suitable for beginners in Kanban.

The learning objectives:

- Agile Overview

- Lean in a Nutshell

- Kanban in a nutshell

- Real World Examples of Kanban

- Visualizing the Workflow

- Limit work to capacity

- Measuring Lead/Cycle Time

- Using Kanban with Scrum (Scrumban)

Course Outline:

Module-1: Agile Overview

- Why Agility?

- Traditional v/s Agile Software Development

Exercise on agile development

Module-2: Lean in Nutshell

- Lean Principles applied to Software Development

Module-3: Understanding Kanban

- Understanding Kanban

- Origins of Kanban

- Understanding Flow

- Learning the difference between 'push' & 'pull' systems

Case Study - Kanban in action

Kanban Simulation Game

Module-4: Kanban Measurements

- Understanding & monitoring Work in Process (WIP)

- Measuring Lead Time and Cycle Time

- Creating Continuous Flow Diagrams

- Other Metrics

Module-5: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban

- Comparing Kanban to Scrum

- Understanding what Scrumban is

- Learning how to apply Scrumban and when to use Scrum and Kanban separately

Modul-6: Value Stream Maps

- Learning to define the 'as is' state of a process

- Understanding how to identify steps in the process that provide value to the customer and those that do not

- Learning how to calculate the efficiency of a process from end-to-end

- Appling steps to create a future state process that reduces total cycle time

Faculty Profile: Niranjan N.V., M.Tech (IIT-B), PMI-ACP, CSP, CSM, SPC

Founder, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant, Agile Coach & Trainer.

He has around 17 years of professional experience and 5 years as a consultant. Coach and Trainer in Agile - Scrum, Lean - Agile, XP, Kanban, Software Estimation, Project Management. He has extensive implementation experience in Agile - Scrum, Distributed Agile and Scaling Agile at Enterprise Level, FP Based Productivity framework Design and Measurement. He has been a panel speaker and moderator for Agile Best Practices Sessions and also delivered talks in conferences and webinars on Agile Methodologies.

His main interests are providing Consulting, Coaching, Mentoring and Training in Agile Methodologies, Transitioning to Agile Successfully, Scaling Agile at Enterprise level, Scrum Project Management, CMMI - Agile(Hybrid Process Model adoption), Software Estimation using Function Point Analysis.

* He is Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultants and holds SAFe Program Consultant Certification (SPC) from Scaled Agile Academy

* He is an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) from PMI, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)and holds Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) certification from Scrum Alliance.

* He is one of the Core Executive Committee Members for Agile Leadership Network, Bengaluru, Chapter

He has Trained more than 2500 Participants and 50 Plus Organisations since 5.0 years, to various IT and Non IT companies in the areas of Agile Methodologies (Scrum Project Management), Agile Estimation and Planning, Agile Requirements Analysis, Software Estimation Techniques(Function Point Analysis) to various clients in India and USA. He has delivered training assignments in Infosys-Mysore, Yahoo, Oracle , GE & GE- Healthcare, Arbitron, MindTree, Mphasis, Hewlett Packard, CapGemini, Computer Associates, ITC Info Tech, Informatica, ABB etc.

Time : 09:30 am to 05:30 pm

Fee Details:

Rs. 7,303.00 Per Participant (All Inclusive)

Group Discount:

Group of 3 or more Rs. 6,742.00Per Participant (All Inclusive)

Subject to availability of seats. Registration is first come first serve basis.

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Venue Details:

KnowledgeWorks IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.,

No. 65, Sri Vinayaka Tower, 3rd Floor, 8th B Main, 27th Cross,

Jayanagar 4th Block, Bangalore - 560011