Kanban for Agile Teams Workshop

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Kanban is a simple and efficient method for managing and continuously improving the flow of software projects and processes. Kanban enables visual tracking of the workflow, limits work-in-process, and provides continuous feedback to drive continuous improvement. Attend this workshop to know the basic concepts of Kanban and experience managing a project using this powerful technique.

In this workshop, participants will get an overview about Kanban and how to use it for managing flow of requests in software development or maintenance projects. In addition, participants will be able to compare Kanban, which is a flow-based management method, to iteration-based agile methods like Scrum, and when it’s recommended to use each one of them.

Participants will also go through many case studies, group activities and discussions, and will exercise managing a simulated project using Kanban.

Topics Covered

• Overview of Lean concepts
• Kanban for software development
  • Visualizing the workflow
  • Limiting Work-in-progress (WIP)
  • Continuous measurements and improvement
  • Explicit policies like (Done Definition, Ready Definition, WIP Limits, etc.)
• A full project simulation using Kanban tequniques, like kanban boards, run-charts, and Cumulative-flow diagrams
• Study the effect of increasing WIP over team capacity
• Kanban versus Scrum

Who Should Attend

Generally, persons who are involved in managing software teams, communicating with customers, planning and staffing teams, managing throughput, etc. will find it very much valuable to attend this training.

• Software team leaders
• Project managers
• Project leaders
• Customer support engineers
• Product owners
• Scrum masters

Prerequisites

• There are no prerequisites for this workshop

 Instructor(s)

Amr Noaman

Mohamed Amr