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Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK) provides experienced Scrum Masters and other practitioners with an introduction to incorporating Kanban practices into the Professional Scrum framework. This interactive and activity-based training course will teach students how to improve their working processes by adding proven flow techniques to the DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. In addition, students will gain skills to achieve better outcomes through workflow by integrating theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises.
Additionally, this course focuses on helping students track and manage flow metrics to provide more predictable delivery patterns, ultimately helping them overcome common delivery challenges. Finally, this course teaches students how to implement Kanban within a Professional Scrum environment and what good Kanban looks like.
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I recently completed the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course, and it was an incredibly valuable experience. The course effectively bridges the gap between Scrum and Kanban, providing a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate Kanban's flow-based principles into a Scrum framework. Content: The course content was well-structured and covered all essential topics, including flow metrics, Kanban practices, and how these can enhance a Scrum team's effectiveness. I appreciated how the course balanced theory with practical examples, making it easy to see how these concepts could be applied in real-world situations. Instructor: Our instructor was knowledgeable and engaging, with a deep understanding of both Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Nisha Patel was excellent at explaining complex concepts in a way that was easy to grasp, and she encouraged active participation, which made the learning experience even more interactive and insightful. Interactive Sessions: The hands-on exercises and simulations were particularly beneficial, allowing us to apply the principles we were learning in a controlled environment. This practical approach helped solidify my understanding and gave me the confidence to implement these practices in my own work. Takeaways: By the end of the course, I felt well-prepared to incorporate Kanban practices into my Scrum teams.
17 Aug - 18 Aug, 2024
Optimizing flow requires defining what flow means in a Scrum context. Each Scrum Team must create its definition of “Workflow” containing the following elements:
First, a quick review of a key tenet of The Scrum Guide: Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Scrum mandates that the Sprint Backlog be transparent, but it provides limited guidance on how to accomplish this. Nor does it define how to achieve explicit transparency to the flow of work into the Product Backlog, from the Product Backlog into the Sprint Backlog, and whatever happens to the work after it makes it into a “Done” increment. This is where Kanban can help. By visualizing work in new ways, a Scrum Team can apply the set of practices laid out in this guide to more effectively optimize value delivery. These practices borrow from and build upon the principles of lean thinking, product development flow, and queuing theory.
Scrum Teams achieve flow optimization by using the following four practices:
Visualization using the Kanban board is the way the Scrum Team makes its workflow transparent. The board’s presentation should prompt the right conversations at the right time and proactively suggest opportunities for improvement.
Work in Progress (WIP) refers to the work items the Scrum Team has started but has not yet finished. Scrum Teams using Kanban must explicitly control these in-progress work items from the time they consider them “started” until the time they consider them “finished.” That control is usually represented as a number or numbers on a Kanban board. Those numbers are called “WIP Limits.”
Limiting WIP is a necessary component to achieve flow, but it alone is not sufficient. The third practice to establish flow is the active management of work items in progress. Active management can take several forms, including but not limited to the following:
20 - 22 Dec, 2024
10:30 PM - 6:30 AM (EST)
21 - 22 Dec, 2024 weekend
3:00 AM - 11:00 AM (EST)
Agilemania offers a 2-day Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK) Training, aimed at beginning Scrum Masters, that can lead to your PSK certification. Download the brochure and check the different Focus Areas covered within these 2 days of training.
All participants completing the Professional Scrum with Kanban course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) assessment. This assessment is only available to students of the class currently. The test is currently under construction and will be available soon. The industry-recognized PSK certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. If you attempt the PSK assessment within 14 days of receiving the password and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.
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