Kanban Essentials

About this course

The Kanban Method is a powerful approach to visualizing work items and workflow, creating a pull-based system without bottlenecks, and driving incremental improvements to your specific software development process, whatever it might be.

This course gets you started with Kanban by describing its fundamentals and how to set up a Kanban system in your environment, and it shows you how to use Kanban metrics to analyze, deeply understand, and pursue changes to your development system that will make it work better for your team and for your business. Start with what you do now, agree as a team to evolve your system incrementally, and encourage acts of leadership that deeply involve participants at all levels.

Benefits

After completing this course, you will:

• Fully understand what Kanban is
• Appreciate the ways in which Kanban is richer, deeper, and more disciplined than you might currently think
• Be able to set up a Kanban system that reveals the realities of your development workflow
• Know how to use metrics to analyze, understand, and continuously improve your development system so that it works for the individuals using the system and the business

Who Should Take This Course

This course is for software development teams that want to analyze, understand, and significantly improve the flow and throughput of their unique development system.