In this course, Kanban for Agile/Scrum Practitioners, you will learn the skills, approaches, and techniques to advance your essential Kanban capabilities to the next level. First, you’ll learn that Kanban is not a process in and of itself but is a practice that symbolizes a principle and is flexible and adaptable based on the challenge at hand and the necessary resources. Next, you’ll explore different approaches to moving from both waterfall and Agile/Scrum to Kanban. For those with traditional development skills (waterfall), we will point out how Kanban alleviates all the CONs of waterfall by improving the efficiency and flexibility of feature development and provide you the necessary knowledge to help you adapt and transition from your traditional or waterfall application development methods to Kanban. Though Agile/Scrum greatly improves development over waterfall you’ll discover how Kanban takes it a step further in improving product delivery. You’ll also compare Scrum events with Kanban events and how Kanban will increase the workflow and productivity of development. Then, you’ll go into detail on defining your value stream, managing work types, understanding what “done” means, limiting work in progress, adapting to variabilities, the benefits of cumulative flow diagrams, how to forecast future work, dealing with bottlenecks, blockers, and spikes. Finally, the course will take you through the process of implementing Kanban at your workplace. This will include developing a pilot, applying metrics, and provide the awareness to challenges that may obstruct or impede your adoption of Kanban and offer recommendations and techniques to mitigate them. When you have completed this course, you will have the skills and knowledge on how to design, execute, and deliver high-quality Kanban systems.
Author Name: Michael Krasowski
Author Description:
Michael is a consultant and Pluralsight author. He recently traded the corporate world of Accenture back into his passion: IT professional development and authoring for Pluralsight. Previous to Accenture, Michael was General Manager of Fairway Technologies Inc. at the Orange County offices located in Irvine, California. In 2017, Fairway Technologies acquired PDSA Inc., where Michael was Vice President/COO at PDSA, Inc. His responsibilities were to manage all projects and personnel while ensurin… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What You Will Learn
  9mins
• Kanban 201: Taking It up a Notch
  21mins
• Transitioning from Waterfall to Kanban
  22mins
• Transitioning from Agile/Scrum to Kanban
  16mins
• Managing Your Workflow
  45mins
• Preparing for Organizational Challenges
  20mins
• Applying Key Learning Objectives
  12mins