Scrum Better with Kanban Microcredential
Scrum gives you structure. Kanban gives you flow. Together, they help teams deliver with greater predictability, transparency, and speed. The Scrum Better with Kanban Microcredential equips you to enrich your Scrum practices with Kanban’s principles and methods. You’ll learn how to reduce variability, remove delivery friction, and create feedback loops that fuel continuous improvement. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to spot what’s slowing your team down and apply Kanban techniques that make Scrum work better—without disrupting what’s already in place.
Key Learning Objectives
- Visualize Work: Make work and its flow visible to increase alignment and transparency.
- Limit Work in Progress: Reduce multitasking and accelerate finishing.
- Manage Flow: Identify and resolve bottlenecks slowing down delivery.
- Make Policies Explicit: Align the team with clear, agreed-upon rules.
- Establish Feedback Loops: Build cadences that support inspection, adaptation, and learning.
- Evolve Experimentally: Apply scientific thinking to continuous improvement.
- Change Management Principles:
- Start with what you do now—no sweeping overhauls.
- Pursue evolutionary (not disruptive) change.
- Encourage leadership at every level.
Who Should Attend
This course is for anyone looking to boost agility, not just Scrum teams. Ideal participants include:
- Scrum Masters and Product Owners
- Scrum and Agile practitioners
- Project Managers and Product Managers
- Team Leads, Managers, and Leaders at all levels
- Agile Coaches and Facilitators
- Anyone who wants to improve flow, predictability, and adaptability in their work
Course Outline
- Kanban Principles for Scrum Teams
- Six General Practices of the Kanban Method
- Visualize
- Limit Work in Progress
- Manage Flow
- Make Policies Explicit
- Establish Feedback Loops
- Improve Collaboratively, Evolve Experimentally
- Kanban Change Management Principles
- Start with what you do now
- Agree to pursue evolutionary change
- Encourage leadership at every level
- Scrum + Kanban in Action
- Practical tools to reduce risk, improve delivery, and increase predictability
Course Benefits
- Dual Credentials: Earn the Scrum Kanban Practitioner (Kanban University) and Scrum Better with Kanban (Scrum Alliance) badges.
- Practical Tools: Gain actionable techniques to resolve delivery challenges.
- Live, Online Format: 8 hours of interactive training with expert instructors.
- Immediate Application: Apply Kanban practices to improve Scrum teams right away.
- Broader Value: Learn skills applicable beyond Scrum teams to any professional context.
- Professional Recognition: Showcase two industry-recognized credentials to strengthen your agile profile.
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Take the first step towards a more agile and efficient team. Contact us today to discuss bringing a certified training or custom workshop in-house.