Training FAQ
Kanban
What is Kanban Systems Improvement (KSI)?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:48:38-05:00
- You learned the basics of Kanban and how to design a single system in the Kanban System Design course. The next step on your journey is to learn how to scale out to multiple connected systems. In Kanban Systems Improvement, you will learn how to manage and optimize those systems using metrics and evolutionary change.
- In any workflow system there will be sources of delay, variability, and bottlenecks. Learn to proactively discover these challenges and then apply techniques to improve or smooth the flow of work.
- Kanban Systems Improvement (KSI), previously known as Kanban Management Professional II (KMPII), is focused on improving kanban systems. It elevate your knowledge and tools at the same time to make your flow (of services within system(s)) more effective and efficient.
What is Kanban System Design (KSD)?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:48:38-05:00
- With Kanban, we start by developing and visualizing a joint understanding of the current way of working. We look at how things are working and where there are sources of dissatisfaction. Then, improvements are identified and introduced. The Kanban System Design course provides the foundational background of The Kanban Method and then guides the students through the process of understanding their systems so they can design an appropriate Kanban system to meet their needs. By understanding the core concepts of The Kanban Method, you will be able to design a Kanban system to improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team.
- Kanban System Design (KSD), or previously was known as Kanban Management Professional I (KMPI), is aimed at people with influence or control over a system; to dig into the system and make it more productive and ultimately customer friendly.
What is Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:48:38-05:00
This credential is granted upon the completion of the Team Kanban Practitioner course. It is designed to introduce the principles of Kanban for a team to get started or for the complete team to get the appropriate exposure to be effective within a Kanban system. The TKP is not required for other credentials, however many people new to Kanban may find TKP to be the best entry point.
Okaloa Flowlab Simulations
What is Multi Team Flow?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:46-05:00
- This simulation allows an experience of flow and collaboration across multiple teams that need to work together to deliver value. Individual teams can be competence, component or technology teams each with their own area of specialisation. They could even be feature teams (full-stack teams) to the extent that each feature team focuses on its own feature set (e.g. check-out, …). The simulation demonstrates multi-tiered flow and collaboration across 2 different levels: 1) the request level and 2) work item level. One of the elements of this simulation is to experience bottlenecks in a multi-team context and the effects of this on delivering value. This simulation is relevant in combination with methods that address scaling.
What is Competence Flow?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:46-05:00
- What happens when you have specialist workers involved when delivering value to the customer? When you rely on specialist workers, you automatically create dependencies, i.e. key man dependencies, and dependencies between work items. The purpose of this simulation is to experience bottlenecks as a result of assigning work to the specialist. This simulation is relevant when you want to introduce the concept of staff liquidity. It can be used in environments where methods like e.g. Kanban and Scrum are applied.
What is Team Flow?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:46-05:00
- The Okaloa TeamFlow simulation is the first in a series of simulation based learning sessions using Okaloa Flowlab. By learning through experience, participants will learn through experience and understand what working in a “flow” system really feels like. There are key elements to this including the linkages between flow, collaboration and learning which we start to explore. Deeper exploration of these principles can be found in the more Advanced Okaloa Flowlab workshops.
Lean Change Management
What is Lean Change Management Agile Explorer?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:25-05:00
- Change is happening faster than ever. Outcomes are uncertain, and the cycle of competition and innovation keeps pushing organizations to change more quickly.
- Yesterday’s linear approaches to change simply can’t keep up with today’s pace of change. By the time you get through the scads of documents needed to get sign-off, the organization’s reality has changed thus rendering your plan useless.
What is Lean Change Management Foundations?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:25-05:00
- Today’s change managers and leaders want to know how they can change faster to keep up with a constantly increasing pace of change and disruption.
- Lean Change Agent Foundations is a 2-day experience designed to help you take the best ideas from agile, lean startup and design thinking to help you create an approach to change management that is compatible with your organization, and the change you’re working on.
What is ICP-CAT Coaching Agile Transitions?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:52:25-05:00
- What would happen if we approached our Agile Transformation in an agile way?
- Coaching Agile Transformations with Lean Change Management is a 16-hour experience designed to help you take the best ideas from agile, lean startup and design thinking to help you live the agile values and principles while transforming your organization to new ways of working.
Agile Fundamentals
What is Agile Fundamentals?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:56:43-05:00
- In 2001, 12 of the leading thinkers of Software Development came together to create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. This course explores what is Agile and how it is in fact a mindset built on 4 Values and 12 supporting principles. We explore culture, self organization and visibility and learn that the Agile mindset
What is Scrum Foundations?Juan Barahona2022-12-03T22:56:43-05:00
- The world is constantly changing and organizations are looking for ways to change with it – to become adaptable. At Scrum Alliance®, we know that agile principles, practices, and values empower individuals and teams to sustainably transform the way they work. Our Scrum Foundations course is designed to introduce you to the values and principles established in the Agile Manifesto, as well as the framework defined by the Scrum Guide.
We are able to provide training onsite or remotely. Some highlights of trainings include:
- Agile boot camp or 101
- Agile Mindset
- Build your Own Scrum
- Building Communities of Practice
- Effective Retrospectives
- Empathy Toy:
- Collaborative Communication
- Effective Teamwork
- Building Cross Functional Teams
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Promoting Empathic Leadership
- Change management
- Conflict management
- Product Ownership
- And more
- Failure Toy (pending)
- Get Kanban
- Introduction to Kanban
- Introduction to Scrum
- Leading Agile Teams
- Lean Canvass
- Lean Change Management
- LEGO Serious Play
- One on One Coaching
- Open Space Technology
- Prioritization
- Product Owner workshop
- Scaling Scrum using Scrum of Scrums
- Scrum Simulation using LEGO
- Story Mapping
- Story Splitting
- Triad Coaching
- User Story Workshop