Managing Agile Projects with Lean and Kanban

Lean

• LEAN Thinking
• Five Principles of LEAN
• Using Lean in R&D
• System Thinking (from Deming)
• Plan driven vs. Value driven
• Team Power
• Innovation curve

• Comparison of iterative methodologies
• Why things go wrong
• The Agile approach
• What is Scrum?
• Pigs and chickens

• The customer representative
• Prioritizing product requirements
• Writing effective stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Negotiating sprint contents
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements

• Sprint backlog
• Sprint planning: what to do
• Sprint planning how to do it
• What happens during a sprint
• Burn down charts
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

• Grooming Meeting
• Implementing Scrum
• Ensuring proper practices
• Maintaining documentation
• Standup meetings
• When to pair program
• Group exercise to implement Scrum

• Scrum review meeting
• Scrum retrospective meeting
• Releasing an iteration
• Group exercise the review a sprint

• Factory model
• The functioning of canon
• The functioning of missile
• Pillars of Kanban
• Big Picture

• Concepts behind Kanban
• Kanban Rules
• Metrics
• Flow Diagram
• + technical practices

• Shared responsibility
• Self-organization
• Interdisciplinary
• Benefit the "right" team work

• How to visualize process?
• How to create Kanban Board?
• What are and how to introduce WIP limits?
• What are and how to introduce Classes of Service?

• The most common waste
• Value Stream

• Value Stream Mapping
• Waste analysis
• Main concepts behind Kaizen (MUDA / MURI / MURA)
• Bottlenecks analysis
• Five Focusing Steps

• Golden Circle
• Impact mapping
• Design Thinking
• User story mapping