Making the Workflow and Delays Visible Using Kanban Boards
About this 4-Hour Mini-Workshop
Upcoming Workshop(s)
Who Is This Workshop For?
4-Hour Mini-Workshop Description
Using Kanban Boards to Visualize the Workflow from Team to Value Streams
In this workshop, we show you why visualization is so powerful – if a picture is worth a thousand words, a visualization is worth ten times a picture. Learn how to set up a Kanban board or evolve the one you are using. We show examples and scenarios to draw from, enabling you to optimize a board that is fit for your purposes.
One of the significant enablers of improving the flow of value delivery is focusing on a big culprit of inefficiency: waiting time (delays) between the value-adding tasks. This factor is almost always an area for improvement, yet no one is attending to it in most companies. In this workshop, you will learn about visualizing work, identifying when it is delayed, techniques for raising awareness of what is happening, and how to begin collaborating on options to reduce or eliminate the delay.
Workshop Overview
Why You Should Consider Attending this Mini-Workshop
Learn how to:
- Visualize Your Workflow
- Manage Dependencies with Visual Controls
- Make Delays Transparent
- Reduce Surprises and Impacts
- Shrink Work In Process
- Improve Intake Management
Why Attend this Workshop?
Many people know that using a Kanban board can heighten team collaboration, but did you know that you can visualize your workflow, identify delays, and connect the value delivery flow in your value stream?
Maybe you are using a Kanban board, but it does not provide the value you thought you would get, and you feel this has been over-hyped. Join this mini-workshop to learn how some simple changes that yield much more value and insight than you currently have.
Objectives Considered During Workshop
- Making work visible
- Reducing delays in the workflow
- Understanding flow based agreements
- Connecting teams to their value stream
- Improving planning
What You Should Know Before
There are no prerequisites to enroll in the course. A cursory understanding of agile is helpful.
Time Investment
The course is 4 hours of instructor-led content with optional on-demand video courses. Here are the delivery options available:
- One day, 4 hours with breaks
- Two days, 2 hours per day with breaks
How to Get Professional Recognition by Success Mentors University and Process Mentors
Upon completing this workshop, you will receive a certificate and a virtual badge from Process Mentors, issued through Success Mentors University, to validate your attendance.
- Certificate of Attendance
- SMU Virtual Badge
Gain a Value Delivery Mindset
- Introduction
- Lesson 1: Why Visualizing the Workflow is so Powerful
- Lesson 2: Kanban Board Examples (Software & Non-Software)
- Lesson 3: Team Focused Kanban Boards
- Exercise: Set Up YOUR Kanban Board
- Lesson 4: Agreements on How Work Flows Through Your Board
- Exercise: Create YOUR explicit flow agreements
- Lesson 5: Value Stream Focused Kanban Boards
- Lesson 6: Detecting Delays in the Workflow
- Lesson 7: Connecting Planning with Execution
- Questions & Answers and Wrap-Up