Description

Many businesses strive for large-scale agility but find themselves facing failed attempts with various frameworks. Successful scale doesn’t come from installing a process framework! Instead, it comes from building trust, avoiding mistakes and costly rework, improving quality, delegation, empowerment, and managing risk. How do we accomplish this? By increasing organizational maturity and thinking of your organization as a network of interdependent services.

With a few simple rules or policies along with a few relatively simple techniques, such as classifying cost of delay qualitatively, we allow for autonomy. This means that the nodes in the network can operate independently with very little centralized control or overhead, enabling the enterprise to move quickly, exhibit agility, exploit opportunities, and show resilience. This enables an end-to-end service that is orchestrated and composed from existing services in the network, and new opportunities are exploited through improved cooperation and collaboration rather than expensive and painful reorganization and restructuring.

Manage Dependencies With Confidence

Beyond a trivial scale of a single team, organizational design approaches to eliminate dependencies are ineffective. Attempts to design out dependencies tend to design in mediocrity. Dependencies in large-scale organizations and large-scale products or services, or products that aspire to be market leaders, are a fact of life. Instead of trying to eliminate dependencies, we need to learn to manage them elegantly and effectively.

This course will teach you to effectively manage dependencies while minimizing the economic and productivity impacts by using concepts such as:

• Demand shaping
• Capacity allocation
• Advanced forms of classes of service
• Risk-assessment techniques
• Strong triage capability that separates work into three categories—do it now; leave it until later, but with a specific schedule; or choose not to do it at all

These techniques will contribute to highly predictable outcomes and superior economic results.

Increase Organizational Maturity

This class provides an overview of the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) and provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance that is directly implementable. The class also acts as a bridge to the Kanban Maturity Model and a primer for those pursuing a coaching career path with the intent to become Kanban Coaching Professionals with a mastery of the KMM.

Students will learn the basic principles of scaling any business activity. It provides actionable guidance focused on effective practices that enable better quality, demonstrate ways and means to ¨work yourself out of a job” and improve organizational maturity using the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM).

Introduction to Leadership Maturity

Build on Kanban Management Professional Knowledge

There are advanced practices not taught in KMP training that are required to enable large-scale implementation. The class includes revision of existing techniques such as enabling workers to self-organize around work, the Kanban lens, STATIK, commitment and triage, and lead time and risk hedging. It then applies these in the context of a large network of interdependent kanban systems.

Who Will Benefit?

Kanban Management Professionals who want to take Kanban to the next level and understand not only the practices required to enable enterprise-scale kanban deployments, but also the leadership, culture, and organizational maturity required for effective large-scale implementation.

This course is aimed at practitioners and managers in operational positions who need and want to get things done at a large scale. Those who need to demonstrate enterprise-scale agility.

This course is focused on product portfolio material, so those who do not want to pursue a coaching role might find it the most practical next step if they wish to understand the elements needed for successful scaling. Previous ESK attendees have been in roles such as:

• Senior Managers
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Process Improvement Coaches, Stakeholders, and Sponsors
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

Topics Covered

The course follows the official KU Certified Kanban syllabus. During the two days, you will have ample opportunities to discuss and experience the following topics:

• Be able to move quickly, exhibit agility, exploit opportunities, and show resilience
• Improve cooperation and collaboration rather than expensive and painful reorganization and restructuring
• Learn to manage your dependencies in a cost-effective manner with minimum impact on productivity
• Achieve an end-to-end workflow that increases speed and predictability
• Create highly predictable outcomes and superior economic results through proper risk management techniques
• Produce objectives and metrics to drive system-wide optimal behavior
• Be able to scale Kanban beyond a department to a whole business unit of up to tens of thousands of people
• Improve organizational maturity with pragmatic, actionable guidance based on the KMM

Course Agenda

Day 1:

• Foundations for scaling
• Scaling Kanban for enterprise agility
• Pursue organisational maturity

Day 2:

• Dependency management
• Stop making mistakes!
• Improve leadership maturity

What you’ll learn

• Kanban University’s certified training curriculum and teaching methods were created through the collaboration of leading experts and validated in hundreds of training classes around the world.
• You get pragmatic, actionable guidance you can implement in your organization next week – because it doesn’t require permission, a large budget or getting others to change.
• You will receive training from an Accredited Kanban Trainer, who has experience teaching and coaching Kanban within several organizations.

What You Get

• You will receive training from an Accredited Kanban Trainer, who has experience teaching and coaching Kanban within several organizations.
• You will receive a ESK certificate of course completion from Kanban University (KU) as well as membership of KU. The Certificate is for lifetime and doesn’t need to be renewed.
• KMPs will also receive a ESK Credential from Kanban University (KU). The Credential is for lifetime and doesn’t expire.
• Profile listing on the Kanban University (KU) alumni page.
• 1 month subscription to KMM+, giving access to all the content and latest updates to the Kanban Maturity Model book, KMM posters and video resources.
• Membership to the Agilityzer Slack channel giving access to our alumni community.
• Further support with your real-world experiences, with an optional, complimentary follow up session.