Kanban Systems Improvements

In the Kanban System Design course, you learned the basics of Kanban and how to build a single system. The next step in your journey is learning how to scale to multiple connected systems. In the Kanban Systems Improvement course, you will learn how to manage and optimise these systems using metrics and evolutionary change.In any workflow system, there are sources of delays, variability and bottlenecks. Learn to proactively identify these challenges and then apply techniques to improve or smooth the flow of work.

• Understand the fundamentals, motivation and benefits of evolutionary change.
• Scale your system in multiple directions - upstream, downstream, connected to other systems.
• Learn how to use Kanban cadences to manage and scale your system in your organisation.
• Understand the sources of delays and variability and what you can do to manage them effectively.
• Identify bottlenecks in a workflow and take action to improve flow and reduce time to delivery or time to discovery.
• Learn how to use key metrics such as lead times, flowcharts and cumulative flowcharts to guide your continuous improvement through evolutionary change.

If you have not yet completed Kanban System Design (KSD), we strongly recommend that you take KSD before this course. Many people think they have a good understanding of Kanban and can go straight to KSI, but in our experience this rarely works well. There are many concepts in the KSD course, such as STATICS, Work Item Type and Service Classes, that participants need to understand well in order to get the full benefit of Kanban Systems Improvement.If you have taken KSD and are wondering how to scale, manage or optimise your services, Kanban Systems Improvement is the course for you.