1-day training workshop: Kanban and Lean-Agile essentials with Agendashift

Kanban training with a difference! This 1-day hands-on workshop explores not just the mechanics of kanban systems but also the change management philosophy that sustains lasting Lean-Agile transformation. It is led by Agendashift founder Mike Burrows, author of the definitive book Kanban from the Inside and creator of Featureban, the popular Kanban simulation game.

You will be working with this leading practitioner towards these key outcomes:

Hands-on experience with kanban systems and the Kanban Method
Establishing a platform of common understanding for your Lean-Agile transformation
Learning how to understand, manage, and evolve your product development and service delivery systems, applying modern hypothesis-driven techniques
Exploring the values, principles, and paradigms of Lean, Agile, Kanban, and Scrum and how to integrate them successfully
Practical tips and techniques you can apply right away, whatever your role

Free and without obligation, every participant will receive the opportunity to survey their team using the full version of the Agendashift delivery assessment. This may be used as pre-work for the Agendashift transformation strategy workshop; discounts apply if the two workshops are ordered together.

Who is it for?

This workshop has proven effective with mixed audiences – IT & business, managers & staff, experienced & novice. If you're going to use Kanban or be involved in any way in a Lean-Agile transformation, you'll find it valuable.

Workshop overview

Making it flow: Hands-on with kanban systems (Featureban)
- Visual management
- New work management policies
- Metrics
- Larger-scale organisational issues
Changing for the better: Hypothesis-driven change (Agendashift)
- Agreeing opportunities for change
- Framing hypotheses, outcomes & measures
- Identifying assumptions, dependencies & risks
- Involving the right people
- Ensuring follow-through
Putting it together: Integrating and contextualising Lean, Agile, and Kanban
- Lean, Agile, and Kanban & friends
- Integrating through values
- Exploring core assumptions
Digging deeper: How to improve existing systems (Reverse STATIK)
- Improve the service experience
- Manage the knowledge discovery process
- Balance demand & capability
- Identify sources of dissatisfaction and other motivations for change
- Pursue fitness for purpose

Customisation

Optionally (and recommended for senior audiences), we can augment the "Changing for the better" module to make room for these key elements from the Agendashift transformation strategy workshop:

Clean Language: using this coaching tool to explore outcomes
Cynefin: organising outcomes using the complexity framework and its sensemaking tool

Conversely, when training is scheduled to precede an Agendashift transformation strategy workshop we can dial down the change aspects and spend more time on practical techniques in the "Digging deeper" module.

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About us

Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.