Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Two – 3-hour Virtual Sessions
Synopsis:
Kanban is a method for just in time delivery of tasks (such as products, services, support, and maintenance) without overloading our workforce.
Whether you are a product owner, business owner, support/maintenance, development, operations, sales team member, business stakeholder or simply someone who wants the answer to the question “What is Kanban”, and “How can it Help us Achieve Results” this is definitely the class is for you.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what Kanban is and why it is so powerful for maintaining the highest level of production without overloading your team or business
- Learn how to use Kanban for your services or to support products and projects in a complex environment
- Feel confident in implementing Kanban for any service, maintenance or support team
- Understand what a Workflow is and How the Kanban style workflow helps to manage tasks more effectively
- Explain what Work in Progress (W.I.P) limits and how they will make your team or business more efficient
- Understand the concepts behind the “pull system” and who sets priority within the Kanban method
- Learn how to refine your process in any business
- Learn Toyota’s Six core Kanban rules and how this has been used to create one of the most successful companies in the world so that you can use the same rules
- A complete overview of the Kanban Board and how it is used to visualize the work-flow
Outline:
- What is Kanban?
- Overview of Kanban
- How to use The Kanban Board
- Workflow
- Work in Progress Limits
- Priority Setting
- The Pull System
- Hands-on Electronic Kanban Board
- Setup
- Management
- Use in Executing the Project.
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
The learners will cover various elements of Kanban and how it is used to track project tasks.
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change
