IndigoBlue, in partnership with Modus Cooperandi, are proud to announce the Lean management training course, Kanban for Sustaining Systems Engineering.
Corey Ladas will be running a number of courses throughout Q4 2008 and Q1 2009.
| Why Kanban? |
Agile practices have supercharged development teams, but skills such as prioritization, optimising work-in-progress, and continuous improvement remain elusive. Kanban has been proven effective in these areas allowing Agile teams to deliver more value to their customers more quickly.
Modus Cooperandi and IndigoBlue have been using Kanban to help clients deliver an increased flow of value to their customers and make their Agile processes even more effective.
Click here to pre-register for this course.
| The Value |
Kanban has been proven to increase organizational maturity by:
- Reducing time to market for critical features
- Creating context for scheduling and prioritization
- Increasing responsiveness to changing market conditions;
- Aligning goals of technical resources to goals of your company
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement
- Increasing communication between software engineering and marketing
- Providing better quantitative and qualitative management of value delivery
- Reducing waste
- Increasing throughput
| The Format |
| Session | Details | Duration |
| Coffee and ice breaker | Meet the other course attendees, Modus Cooperandi and IndigoBlue teams. | 60 min |
| Session 1 | Understanding Value and Flow Lean Thinking and Theory of Constraints in Software Development Exercise: Value stream mapping Exercise: Batch size games |
15 min |
| Session 2 | Understanding Pull XIT Case Study Kanban Basics RRT Case Study Exercise: Kanban Simulation |
30 min |
| Lunch | Lunch | 60 min |
| Session 3 | Organizational Design Kanban Deployment Exercise: Workcell Design Workshop |
60 min 30 min |
| Session 4 | Kanban in Context Estimating and Prioritizing Planning Metrics and Reporting |
30 min 30 min 30 min |
| No Host Bar | Socializing hour | 60 min |
| What you will learn |
- An introduction to Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban
- 4 areas of focus to deliver success
- Value Stream Mapping Process
- Flow Tracking
- Implementing different classes of service
- Implementing a culture of continuous improvement (Kaizen)
- How established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process
- Controlling WIP Identifying bottlenecks
- Classifying bottlenecks as capacity constrained resources or non-instant availability resources
- Managing bottlenecks appropriately for improved throughput Understanding transaction and coordination costs in a Kanban process
- Defining release and input cadence for a Kanban system Negotiating service level agreements with customers
- Using Metrics and Reporting to drive continuous improvement
- Establishing policies to prevent abuse and gaming of the Kanban system
