Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK)

Duration: 1 day

Class Title: Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK)

Class Description:

Improve your Scrum by using the practices and evolutionary change approach from the Kanban Method.

Scrum Better with Kanban can help you improve your Scrum through the introduction of proven Kanban practices, principles, and the application of evolutionary change management. This course captures the lessons learned from Scrum Teams that successfully evolved their way of working through evolutionary change using the Kanban Method. Our hands-on training will ensure that you walk away with a proven approach to introducing changes that will deliver results for your team and organization.

If you are a Scrum practitioner, team lead, Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a manager who wants to understand an evolutionary approach to improving your Scrum using the Kanban practices, the Scrum Better with Kanban class is a great place to get started!

Learning Objectives:

• Address the pains of your Scrum
• Learn how to identify and analyze the challenges in and around your Scrum and how to prepare solutions to address these challenges.
• Identify and develop solutions to the variability that is delaying or slowing down your work.
• Develop and test potential solutions to problems that reflect the principles and practices of the Kanban Method.

Certificate issued: Standard certificate of completion AND Scrum Kanban Practitioner (SKP) credential certificate. SKP badge shown on KU website and SKP badge file made available to role members.

Who can teach: Approved AKT

Positioning and Target Group: Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, managers supporting one or more Scrum Teams within an organization. Common problems for this target audience are team-level problems that include:

• Dependencies
• Meetings
• Predictability
• Resistance
• Transparency
• Unplanned Work

We believe that this course can help the target audience to gain greater awareness in investigating and identifying potential experiments for the entire team to try using the managed evolutionary change approach.

Prerequisites: Students should be familiar with the Scrum Framework and have applied it at least once within their organization. Read latest Scrum Guide before attending this training.

Having a Scrum certification is not a mandatory requirement. No previous Kanban training or experience is required.

Format: The course is a mix of presentation, simulation, and exercises.