This course provides an introduction to the Kanban process improvement methodology, with a focus on its implementation for use by software development teams and other knowledge workers. It is intended for teams, project managers and product managers and begins with a short overview of Kanban, when it is appropriate to be used, and why it can be beneficial to organizations that use it. The course covers the core principles of Kanban, key practices for implementing Kanban.

Topics covered:

• Identifying services

• Push systems vs. Pull systems

• Identifying inventory and sunk cost

• The benefit of visual systems

• The magic of work-in-progress limits

• Basic flow metrics, including Cumulative Flow Diagrams

• Kanban vs Scrum within Agile