Lean Kanban Foundation & Practitioner – Certified Kanban Management Professional KMP 1+ KMP 2 (4 Day)

Accredited Course, Helps you get qualified and become immediately productive as a member of a agile/project environment

Becoming Agile as an organization initiates a change within the organizational culture. It requires embracing a different set of value and principles, and thereby establishing a mindset strongly based on collaboration and focused on delivering customer value.

This four days course is designed for individuals who are responsible for product and project delivery or is part of a delivery or service team. Kanban works across all levels of an organisation, from senior members of staff to members of delivery teams and is appropriate for anyone wishing to improve their working environment and delivery capability.

This course prepares you for an internationally recognised qualification in Kanban, KanBan Management Professional KMP1 + KMP2 from the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It is a highly interactive 4-day introduction to Kanban System Design and provides a detailed insight into the Kanban management method.

Kanban is a method of organizing and managing professional services work. It uses Lean concepts such as limiting work in progress to improve results. A Kanban system is means of limiting work-in-progress and signaling when capacity is available to start new work. It is a evolutionary approach to change management by starting with respecting current job titles, encouraging acts of leadership, and agreeing to pursue incremental change that evolves business processes using a Kaizen approach to mitigate risks.

Location and Dates

London - 16-19 Sept. 28-31 Oct, 19-20 Oct &16-17 Nov (Weekend), 02-05 Dec

Bristol - TBC

Dublin - 07-10 Oct

This 4-day hands-on course follows the official Lean Kanban University (LKU) syllabus. You will be involved in regular hands-on exercises and discussions that will focus on the rollout and daily operation of a Kanban system.  You will consider what type of Kanban initiative is most appropriate for your organisation and how to manage and evolve it over time without trauma.  You will learn how to improve agility with asymmetrical commitment and cadences. 

Course Contents - KMP1

Course Contents - KMP2

Options: The Kanban Management Professional is broken down into 2 core certifications KMP1 & KMP2.

a) Lean Kanban Foundation – Certified Kanban Systems Design KMP 1 (2 Day)
b) Lean Kanban Practitioner – Certified Kanban Management Professional KMP 2 (2 Day)

completing these 2 separtely or combined will earn you the Kanban Management Professional accreditation.

FAQs

1) Are there any prerequisites to take the course?

Familiarity with projects, agility and Project management is useful but not essential.

2) Who should take this course?

Audience: Senior Management; Programme & Project Managers; Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts; Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents; Scrum Team Members; Product & Software Developers & Testers; Agile Coaches & Practitioners, Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

This is an accredited course eligible for 15 CPDs/PDUs/SEUs and prepares you for a certification in Kanban Management professional  

3) What will students achieve or be able to do after taking your course?

a)Apply Kanban as a robust blueprint for evolutionary change management
b)Enable organizational feedback loops
c)Manage asymmetrical commitments from teams operating at different rates
d)Capitalize on meetings, metrics and policies to make viable improvements
e)Implement Kanban at scale by viewing the organization as a network of services
f) Eligible for 30 PDUs/CPDs/SEUs