How Lean and Kanban can rock your world of work!

Benefits

After this course you wil have a basic understandig of what Lean software development is all about. We will focus on Kanban as a process to organize work in a 'pull' system, leading to faster throughput, removal of waste and boosted motivation.

This course is very hands-on and interactive. This means you will get a lot of practical tips and tricks, real life experiences and answers to all of your personal questions. You will also design a Kanban implementation for your team or project that you can start using the day after the course!

Motivation

Learning about Kanban and applying it to your work immediately pays off! Kanban does not require you or your organization to make drastical changes to be able to benefit from it. Implementing Kanban will guide you through a step by step improvement process, leading to faster and better results and increased customer satisfaction.

Target Audience

Kanban is internationally used in software development, operations, support, service management, project and program management and much more. Therefore, this course is aimed at everybody working in IT that wants to improve the organization and throughput of work.

Session Outline

This session's content is flexible and will on the spot be adjusted to your needs. That is what Lean is all about, right? :-)

The topics we will definitely cover are:

• Basics of Lean
• The Kanban process
• How to implement Kanban

Next to these, we will probably also cover:

• Classes of service (SLA’s)
• Self-organizing teams
• Visual management
• Continuous improvement and retrospectives
• Kanban vs. Scrum
• Follow-up and metrics
• ...

About the Trainer

Jef Cumps

Jef Cumps is a very experienced Agile coach and trainer supporting multiple large organisations in their transition towards Scrum and Agile. He is and has been leading enterprise changes covering all levels (individual, teams, management, organization).

As a trainer, Jef has gained a lot of experience in training various topics related to management and efficiency: Scrum, Lean, Kanban, communication, people management and effectiveness. Next to his knowledge and experience, his major asset is his coaching attitude getting the most out of people and organizations.

Last but not least, Jef is also one of the two only Certified Scrum Coaches working in the Benelux and the only Dutch speaking Certified Scrum Coaches in the world.