Scrum Better With Kanban® (SKP)

Learn effective techniques to help Scrum teams evolve and improve how they work, and manage their work at a sustainable pace.

The Scrum Better With Kanban course (which provides the Scrum Kanban Practitioner® - SKP Certification) gives you the knowledge and tools to boost your Scrum team performance, and provides the foundations to apply Kanban to improve how you work and deliver results using Scrum.

This course is a complementary overlay to your existing Scrum approach. It is founded on lessons learned from Scrum teams that have evolved their way of working by leveraging Kanban's practices and evolutionary change approach. Our hands-on, interactive training will ensure you walk away with actionable, practical techniques to improve your Scrum team's success and results.

Learn how to improve your Scrum work experience by:

• Reducing Scrum team overburdening.
• Identifying and managing the dependencies and blockers that Scrum teams face.
• Making service and delivery commitments with confidence.
• Increasing Scrum team collaboration.
• Identifying and analyzing the challenges in and around your Scrum, and design approaches to address these challenges.
• Leverage the principles and practices of the Kanban Method to develop solutions to your delivery problems.

The Kanban Method is a knowledge work management approach for teams and organizations that prefer an alternative path to Agility; one that provides a humane way of evolving and continuously improving their products and services. The Kanban Method helps organizations how to organize your work, improve transparency, identify bottlenecks, visualize workflows, improve communication, enhance team collaboration, and measure systems of work to continually improve and consistently deliver effective results.

Participants that successfully complete this course will earn the globally recognized Scrum Kanban Practitioner® (SKP) designation with Kanban University®.

Note: This course is available to be completed in two half days or one full day.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is strongly recommended for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum Team Leads and Managers responsible for creating a high-performance Scrum work environment, Managers who want to improve their Scrum teams, and Scrum team members for almost any kind of service or delivery, and anyone in a professional services role.

If you are a Scrum practitioner, team lead, Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a manager who wants to understand an evolutionary approach to improving your Scrum using the Kanban practices, the Scrum Better with Kanban course is a great place to get started.

It is also a good knowledge base for:

• Anyone who feels overburdened and wishes to find some respite to enable them to “get things done” with transparency, quality, improved speed, and predictability.
• Managers and team members who need help focusing on what to work on now, what to leave until later, and what to discard altogether.
• Individuals that need to manage their work more effectively, have too much work in progress, or that receive either unpredictable or bursts of work at times.
• Those who want to take pride of workmanship and do good quality work in an effective manner.
• Anyone facilitating teams doing projects, operations, development, support, or research.
• Anyone interested in understanding the fundamentals of Kanban.

If you are considering using Kanban, this course provides a great opportunity to learn about how the Kanban method can help your Scrum team work better together.

By successfully completing the Scrum Better with Kanban (Scrum Kanban Practitioner® - SKP) course, you will be able to:

• Apply Kanban to your Scrum delivery approach to improve it
• Improve your Scrum team member’s work environment and well-being.
• Design and implement improvements to your Scrum team's Sprint board.
• Understand how different work types affect your Scrum team commitment and delivery.

No prerequisite formal training or certification required, however prior experience leading, managing, or working on a Scrum team would be beneficial.

Prior Registered Scrum Master® (RSM), Registered Product Owner® (RPO), or equivalent accreditations are recommended (but not necessary) to give you context for this course.

Here are some recommended learning suggestions for before the class:

• “The Agile Manifesto” – www.agilemanifesto.org
• “Essential Kanban Condensed” by David J Anderson and Andy Carmichael – kanbanbooks.com
• “The Official Guide to the Kanban Method” by Kanban University – resources.kanban.university/kanban-guide
• "The Scrum Guide" by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber - scrumguides.org

Welcome, Logistics & Expectations

Part 1 – Introduction

• Purpose
• Current State

Part 2 – Introducing the Kanban Method

• Scrum
• Kanban
• Principles & Practices
• Workflows & Work Item Types

Part 3 – Scrum Better With Kanban

• Predictability
• Unplanned Work
• Lead Time
• Estimation Challenges
• Delays
• Dependencies
• Discovery
• Dormancy (Waiting)
• Events & Meetings

Part 4 – Understanding Change

• Change Management Principles
• Evolutionary Change

Part 5 – Closing

• Managing Change
• Practical Approaches
• Objective Rating
• Next Steps
• Resources