Kanban Management Professional Training

August 13 – 16, 2018

Join your colleagues as you begin or enhance your Kanban knowledge by learning how to start your own Kanban initiative within your business, gain advanced design concepts used in Kanban systems, and discover how to get more out of your existing Kanban system using advanced management techniques.

Gain a greater knowledge of how to manage a Kanban System using the method’s cadences. Make data-based decisions to improve your team or organizational performance. Understand how set policies to establish and improve quality, performance, agility, predictability, and enable evolutionary change.

You Will Learn

How to design Kanban Systems

• Understand what really goes into a Kanban System including policies, types of work, service levels, cadences, and more.
• Discover what a pull-based system really is about and how to make good decisions when operating a Kanban system.
• Develop a clear understanding of the metrics used when reviewing the performance of a Kanban system and how they indicate risk as well as future performance.
• Learn how to use Systems Thinking Applied to Implementing Kanban (STATIK) as an approach to designing and implementing Kanban systems.
• Discover how a Kanban Systems feels and works through a hands-on simulation.
• Learn from real case studies how Kanban systems are built in the field as well as the myriad of approaches you can take to design and roll out your own Kanban System.

How to manage Kanban Systems

• Improve agility with asymmetrical commitment.
• Learn how to utilize the Kanban cadences to grow, evolve, and improve your Kanban system for continuous improvement and sustainable customer satisfaction.
• Learn how to use the Kanban metrics to make informed decisions and succesful customer commitments.
• Set policies to establish and improve quality, performance, agility predictability, and enable evolutionary change.
• Understand how to utilize the Kanban Method to establish a culture of evolutionary change and service orientation.

You Will Receive

• Kanban Management Professional credential from Lean Kanban University
• Print version of classroom workbook
• Digital version of the slides presented
• David J. Anderson book Kanban (digital version)
• Membership in Lean Kanban University and a listing in the LKU Alumni Directory

Are you a PMP® certification holder?

This four day course also allows the students to claim 28 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs) which can be applied to Project Management Professional (PMP)® and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certifications. PMI, PMP, and PMI-ACP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Who Should Attend?

Kanban works across multiple functions of a business as it evolves both technical and non-technical areas; from software development to sales management.

Previous attendees have been in roles such as:

• Senior Managers
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Product Managers
• Business Analysts
• Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, SAFe, XP, DSDM)
• Sales Specialists and Managers
• Finance Professionals
• Human Resource Managers
• Regulated Professionals (Government, Senior Executive Service, Large Electrical Providers)

Venue and Logistics

Midtown Atlanta

NextGear Solutions
1201 Peachtree Street NE
Building 400, Suite 1730
Atlanta, GA 30361

Getting to the Venue

MARTA From Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

• Take the MARTA Gold or Red Line Train (12 stops) Northbound toward Doraville + North Springs
• Exit at Arts Center Station and follow signs for Peachtree St. / West Peachtree St.
• Walk .3 mi and arrive at 1197 Peachtree Street NE. You're here when you see the #IAMMidtown Letters

MARTA from North Springs

• Take the MARTA Red Line (5 stops) Southbound toward Airport
• EXIT at Arts Center Station and follow signs for Peachtree St. / West Peachtree St.
• Walk .3 mi and arrive at 1197 Peachtree Street NE. You're here when you see the Midtown Letters

From I-85S

Take I-85S to Techwood Dr. NW (Exit 84) turn left onto 14th St NW. Turn left onto Peachtree St NE.

From I-85N

Take I-85N toward 10th/14th Street (Exit 250). Merge onto Williams St NW. Turn right onto 14th St NW. Turn left onto Peachtree St. NE.

Parking & Entrance

Paid parking is in the basement of Building 400. The parking entrance is at the front of the building on Peachtree St. Entrances to Colony Square parking are located in front of the complex on Peachtree Street as well as on 14th Street and 15th St. The garage is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Logisitics

Internet

WiFi will be provided.

Meals and Refreshments

Meals are not provided. Refreshments include a continental breakfast followed by afternoon coffee, water, and light snacks.

Schedule

Class begins at 8:30 AM and ends at 4:30 PM. There will be a 1 hour lunch break around 12 pm.

About Your Trainers

Joey Spooner

Joey Spooner is an Accredited Kanban Trainer and Kanban Coaching Professional at TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc. In a 16-year career spanning the communications, insurance, higher education, non-profit, and government sectors, Joey has been a software developer, IT director, strategic analyst, and technical expert. He blogs at Spoonstein and tweets as @spoonstein. Joey holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from the most excellent University of Florida.

Jeremy Pullen

Jeremy Pullen has been building high reliability software and hardware systems for over 23 years and leading Lean/Agile teams since 2003. He started one of the first Scrum projects in Cisco System in 2006 and has led large-scale distributed software development for Radiant Systems, Cisco Systems, Carestream Healthcare, and Honeywell in roles of software development manager, chief architect, chief product owner, global director of software, and chief agile coach. Jeremy currently leads Polodis, a training and consulting business helping companies build safe and delightful software in high assurance and regulated industries. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Economics from Georgia Tech.

Training Brought To You By

TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc.

TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc., is an Information Technology (IT) Consulting company committed to increasing the competitive advantage of our clients by providing cutting edge solutions through innovation, research and the application of emerging technologies.

We are a certified as a SBA HUBZone, SBA SDB, MDOT MBE, and Prince George's County MBE. We have also been appraised at CMMI ML3 for Software Development. The company was established in May 2002 by visionaries whose combined experience in the Information Technology Consulting field encompasses over 50 years.

Polodis, Inc.

Polodis is a DevSecOps product and services firm that helps companies implement mature security and governance practices into their end-to-end software and hardware development process, deployment process, and supply chain.