Course duration
- 1 day
Course Benefits
- Learn to learn Kanban core practices and workflow.
Course Outline
- Introduction to Kanban
- Kanban overview
- Kanban core practices
- Kanban support in Azure Boards
- Configuring an Azure DevOps project
- Managing a product backlog
- Hands on
- Visualizing the Workflow
- Kanboard board overview
- Kanban board vs. a backlog
- Kanban board vs. a taskboard
- Defining the workflow
- Making policies explicit
- Definition of "Done"
- Defining classes of service (swimlanes)
- Defining task checklists and inline tests
- Filtering the board
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Hands-on
- Limiting WIP
- Work in Progress (WIP) overview
- Visualizing WIP limits
- Creating a pull system
- Splitting columns into "doing" and "done"
- Challenges with limiting WIP
- Bottlenecks
- Hands-on
- Managing for Flow
- Flow-based metrics
- Cycle time vs. lead time
- Little's Law
- Flow-based analytics
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams
- Scatterplots
- Actionable Agile Analytics
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Achieving flow and predictability
- Hands-on
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.