Kanban / Scrumban Training – ONLINE

Objective

Marrying Lean and Agile principles, Kanban and Scrum methodologies, Scrumban provides a simple management framework that supports planning and forecasting even in a continuously changing environment, where Scrum’s preconditions are not met. The methodology and this workshop are not restricted to the IT industry as Kanban itself was first applied in the automotive domain. The goal of this workshop is to understand the basics of Scrumban, the principles and mindset behind Agile and Lean and to acquire a tool that helps attendees improve their projects’ visibility, productivity and ability to forecast.

Target Audience

IT managers, HR, non-IT professionals, project managers, support and maintenance leads and team members and everyone who is working within organizations with potential to use both Scrum and Kanban.

Content

The material is divided into 2 modules. During each module, the trainer will guide you through lectures, real life stories and exercises that help you connect the material to your existing experience, learn new concepts and experience the concepts through practice. Questions are welcome at any time.

Modules:

Module 1: 

• Introduction to Agile:
  • Agile Mindset
  • Agile Values and Principles
  • Traditional vs Agile Projects
• Scrum Overview:
  • Scrum values
  • Scrum Process Flow
  • Key Roles in Scrum

Module 2:

• Introduction to Lean
• Agile vs. Lean
• Kanban
• Scrum vs. Kanban
• Scrumban

Misc.

• Handout (English) will be provided for the participants in PDF.
• The online tool used for this training is Zoom. We’ll send a unique link for each participant before the training and provide the necessary technical information at least 24 hours before the training starts. The precondition for participation and receiving the link is that the training fee arrives at least 2 days prior to the training. 
• Precondition for participation is a camera-enabled connection and internet. 
• Each online module takes 3.5 – 4 hours.

Kanban or Scrum? Which one should I choose?

Kanban is a less-known methodology than Scrum. But it is more often considered as an alternative to Scrum. Indeed, there is an intersection between the application areas of these frameworks, but their characteristics have major differences. Therefore it is worth to overview which one to choose.

Of course, our principle is the same as always: being Agile.
Scrum and Kanban are not religions, hence polemics should be avoided, let’s just look at them like tools and try to find their place in the world as those.

Read our article about this here.