Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK) – Dual-Credential Course

Learn the Six General Practices of the Kanban Method

• Visualise – Show work and its flow.
• Limit Work in Progress – Stop starting, start finishing!
• Manage Flow – Identify and manage what is preventing work from flowing.
• Make policies explicit – Have agreed policies, visible to everyone involved.
• Establish Feedback loops – At the right cadence to provide guidance.
• Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally – Using the scientific method.

Learn the Three Change Management Principles

• Start where you are! (no sweeping overhauls)
• Agree to pursue evolutionary change, not disruptive change.
• Acts of leadership at all levels, not just from the top.

What You Will Leave With

• Learn how to identify and analyse the challenges in and around your Scrum and how to prepare solutions to address these challenges.
• Identify and develop solutions to the variability that is delaying or slowing down your work.
• Develop and test potential solutions to problems that reflect the principles and practices of the Kanban Method, all while maintaining Scrum.

This course is for anyone, not only scrum teams. Whether you’re a project manager, team lead, or individual contributor, Scrum Better with Kanban gives you practical tools to bring Kanban’s evolutionary approach to improving your Scrum using Kanban practices. You’ll learn how to boost predictability, increase transparency, sharpen focus, strengthen feedback loops, and reduce risk, no matter your role or team structure.

Ideal learners for this course include:

• Scrum and agile practitioners
• Scrum masters and product owners
• Team leads
• Leaders
• Managers
• Project managers
• Product managers
• Agile coaches

To attain your certification, you must attend the course and actively participate in the sessions. Once you have completed the course, you will be registered for the Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential from Scrum Alliance and the Scrum Kanban Practitioner (SKP) from Kanban University.

A list of articles to read before attending the course will be sent to you in good time. We estimate this will take no more than two hours, probably less.

If you attend the Scrum Better with Kanban training course, you will benefit from the following:

• An immersive online learning experience facilitated by our Certified Scrum Trainer, Simon Roberts.
• You earn the Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential from Scrum Alliance and the Scrum Kanban Practitioner (SKP) from Kanban University..
• Comprehensive follow-up materials.
• A free follow-up coaching/mentoring call with the trainer.
• Access to the ScrumCenter Network, where you get free online access to ScrumCenter coaches.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) members can claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) after attending the course.

Our live-online SBK course is interactive, engaging, and fun. It’s instructor-led and designed using training from the back-of-the-room techniques. As a result, it leverages the science behind how the human brain learns. Our course is:

• Immersive.
• Instructor-led.
• Taught at a sustainable pace.

The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has a wealth of experience supporting large, medium, and small companies to adopt agile into their organisation through consulting, coaching, and training.

Simon is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Path to CSP Educator, an Agile Coaching Skills Educator, an ORSC® Trained Coach, a Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and a Changewise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He has trained/coached thousands of people over many years.

For the online version of this course, you will need a laptop or desktop computer (no chromebooks). Access through a tablet or phone is not sufficient. We recommend that you use a personal laptop or PC as work laptops may not give full access or provide full functionality, which is required for the course.

Your computer must have a camera and microphone (built-in cameras and microphones are OK).

The course uses Zoom and a web browser (Chrome or Firefox recommended). Please make sure your Zoom client is up to date.

You do not need a computer for the in-person version of this course.