Description

By applying Kanban’s gradual, non-traumatic approach to change and leveraging the Kanban Maturity Model, coaches can achieve more buy-in and greater success and then learn the advanced Kanban techniques and mindset to extend your coaching skills with the Kanban Coaching class.

Your next step to becoming a coach is to learn how to utilize advanced concepts of change management and sociological concepts to address the underlying resistance common in many organizational cultures. Learn how to refine and iterate your Evolutionary Change Canvas to include aspects of your organizational culture including resistance by individuals and groups. Understand and practice how to overcome change plateaus while avoiding the all-too-common aspects of overreaching when considering organizational change. Practice the six escalating steps to increase the motivation for change.

The KMM together with the Kanban coaching principles and practices provides the full playbook of current Kanban coaching techniques.

This course has been created by leading Kanban experts including David J Anderson and is intended to extend the coaching skills of those who have already taken the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential and want to obtain the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) credential.

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. Previous KMM 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. At the end of the course, you will be able to apply the Kanban Coaching to drive managed evolutionary change in an organization. During the two days, you will have ample opportunities to discuss and experience the following topics:

• Explain the Kanban Maturity Model, its purpose, architecture, and application. 
• Identify the Maturity Level of an organization in terms of culture, practices, and business outcomes, through the use of evidence. 
• Explain and apply the Evolutionary Change Model as a guide to drive evolutionary change within the Kanban Maturity Model. 
• Identify barriers to adopting higher levels of maturity up to Maturity Level 3 
• Create an approach to resolve barriers up to Maturity Level 2. 
• A refined Evolutionary Change Canvas or set of canvases that support your ongoing evolutionary change work within your organization.
• The ability to identify and prepare evolutionary change experiments to address the sociological factors that will likely affect your organization’s maturity over time.
• How to reflect both normative and structural change in your organization.
• The ability to identify the right leverage points to maximize the chance of successful evolutionary change.
• The skills to approach leaders with relevant and pragmatic guidance.

Course Agenda

Day 1:

• The purpose of the Kanban Maturity Model
• The architecture of the Kanban Maturity Model
• Understanding an organisation’s maturity
• Driving improvements with the KMM

Day 2:

• Managing evolutionary change guided by the KMM
• The Evolutionary Change Model
• Overcoming barriers to adoption

Day 3:

• Kanban coaching philosophy
• Kanban coaching principles
• Kanban coaching tools
• The 6 escalating steps for leading change

Day 4:

• Mastering change
• Understanding and managing resistance
• Understanding and influencing culture

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 KMM and KC certificates of course completion from Kanban University (KU) as well as membership of KU. The Certificates are for lifetime and don’t need to be renewed.
• Participants who are also Kanban Management Professionals (KMP) are eligible to take the exam to earn the advanced KCP Credential. Kanban University (KU) directly facilitates the credential process. The participant sends an email to KU after completing both the KMM & KC courses, and receives a link to take the KCP exam. There is no fee to take the exam, and unlimited attempts are allowed; however, a 10-day waiting period applies between each attempt. Participants must successfully pass the exam with a score of 75% or higher. Upon successfully passing the exam, participants must pay an additional €468 (PPP adjusted, plus VAT where applicable) credential fee to KU to receive the advanced KCP Credential.
• 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