This credential is granted upon the completion of two classes. Kanban System Design, which teaches the basics of Kanban, flow, and how to design a Kanban system. Then either the Kanban Systems Improvement course, which teaches how to evolve, improve, and scale a Kanban system or the Kanban for Design and Innovation, which teaches how to establish an upstream Kanban system may be chosen to complete the KMP Credential requirements.

KMPs should be able to design a Kanban system and evolve and scale it beyond the team.

With Kanban, we start by developing and visualizing a joint understanding of the current way of working. We look at how things are working and where there are sources of dissatisfaction. Then, improvements are identified and introduced. The Kanban System Design course provides the foundational background of The Kanban Method and then guides the students through the process of understanding their systems so they can design an appropriate Kanban system to meet their needs. By understanding the core concepts of The Kanban Method, you will be able to design a Kanban system to improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team.

Is Kanban System Design the Right Course for Me?

If you will be directly involved in designing and managing a Kanban system, you will certainly want to take the Kanban System Design course. You may still want to take the Team Kanban Practitioner course first if you feel that you are very new to Kanban and to Kanban concepts. It really depends on your starting point and goals.

If you currently work with teams that have “plateaued” and aren’t improving, this course will help you to design visualizations that show where improvement opportunities exist.

Duration: In-person two-day course or 16-hour virtual course.
Pre-Requisites: Attendees are expected to have read “Kanban” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows. 
Certified Training: Participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Kanban System Design course.
Credential: Students completing this course and the Kanban Systems Improvements course receive the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

What You Will Leave With

• Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of The Kanban Method.
• Experience flow in a simulation of a Kanban system.
• Learn how to run the Kanban meetings to focus on the work and allow the team to organize around it.
• Build and design a Kanban system using the STATIK approach.
• Become faster and more responsive, with better risk management and governance.
• Understand “Pull” systems and how they help reduce overburdening.
• Learn how to utilize key metrics such as Lead Time, Run Charts, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams to make continuous improvements.
• Project Management Institute (PMI): 16 PDUs (Professional Development Units) Technical.
• Scrum Alliance: 16 Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) towards your CSP (Certified Scrum Professional)

You learned the basics of Kanban and how to design a single system in the Kanban System Design course. The next step on your journey is to learn how to scale out to multiple connected systems. In Kanban Systems Improvement, you will learn how to manage and optimize those systems using metrics and evolutionary change.

In any workflow system, there will be sources of delay, variability, and bottlenecks. Learn to proactively discover these challenges and then apply techniques to improve or smooth the flow of work.

Is Kanban Systems Improvement the Right Course for Me?

If you have not yet completed Kanban System Design (KSD), we strongly recommend you take KSD before taking this course. Many people think they have a good understanding of Kanban and can skip directly to KSI, but that rarely works well in our experience. There are many concepts in the KSD course, such as STATIK, work item type, and classes of service, that students need to understand well to take full advantage of Kanban Systems Improvement.

If you have taken KSD and find yourself wondering how to scale, manage or optimize your service delivery, Kanban Systems Improvement is the right course for you.

Duration: In-person two-day course or 16-hour virtual course.
Pre-Requisites: Attendees are expected to have read “Kanban” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows. Prior attendance in the Kanban System Design class is strongly recommended.
Certified Training: Participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Kanban Systems Improvement course.
Credential: Students completing this course and the Kanban System Design course receive the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

What You Will Leave With

• Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of evolutionary change.
• Scale out your system in multiple directions – upstream, downstream, connected to other systems.
• Learn how to run the Kanban cadences to manage and scale your system across your organization.
• Understand the sources of delays, variability, and what you can do to effectively manage them.
• Identify bottlenecks in a workflow and take actions to improve flow and reduce time to deliver or time to discover.
• Learn how to utilize key metrics such as Lead Time, Run Charts, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams to guide your continuous improvement using evolutionary change.
• Project Management Institute (PMI): 12 PDUs (Professional Development Units) Technical and 4 PDUs leadership.
• Scrum Alliance: 16 Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) towards your CSP (Certified Scrum Professional).

You’ve got you Kanban system to manage delivery up and running. Great! Yet you still struggle to handle the incoming stream of ideas and requests, and now want to maximize the value you get through the delivery. 

The next step on your journey is to understand the multitude of options available to you through the Kanban for Design and Innovation (KDI) course.

Is Kanban for Design and Innovation the Right Course for Me?

The KDI course will address your pains and problems if:

• You work as BA/PO and don’t feel KSI covers your part of the system fully.
• You want to learn what’s before the commitment point and how to manage this work.
• The upstream work is iterative or takes very long. You cannot visualize it as a pipeline.
• Your backlog is 1,000 items. How should you know what to commit?
• You ask how much time should you spend in upstream decreasing uncertainty? When can you start working on the requests?
• You are product-focused and on the path to be a Kanban Management Professional (KMP).

Duration: In-person two-day course or 16-hour virtual course.
Pre-Requisites: Attendees are expected to have read “Kanban” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows. Prior attendance in the Kanban System Design class is strongly recommended.
Kanban University Certified Training: All participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Kanban for Design and Innovation course. Students who complete both this course and the Kanban System Design (KSD) course are eligible for the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

What You Will Leave With

• Learn how to scale Kanban wider across an enterprise.
• Understand options and how this thinking helps to maximize value.
• Learn techniques and approaches to actively manage incoming work.
• Apply evolutionary change thinking when leading improvement in organizations.
• Engage stakeholders from different organizational levels and departments in idea generation and decision-making through pragmatic approaches.
• Establish an Upstream Kanban system.
• Apply Kanban practices upstream to establish a balance between the preparation and execution of options.