Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) certification

PSK™

Certification by SCRUM.org™

Intermediate

Skill Level

2 Days

Duration

English

Language

Overview

Unleash the power of Kanban by adding it on to your Scrum practice.

Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK) is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work without changing Scrum. Through theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises, participants will understand the importance of transparency and flow as it pertains to the Scrum framework.

Scrum.org and its Professional Scrum Trainers have worked with Daniel Vacanti and Yuval Yeret in the creation of this course, leveraging their Kanban expertise and knowledge. In 2007, Daniel helped to develop the Kanban Method for knowledge work. He managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year, and has been conducting Kanban training, coaching, and consulting ever since. Yuval, who some call “Mr. Kanban Israel” is a recipient of the Lean Kanban community Brickell Key Award for his work helping establish a strong Kanban community with several enterprise product developments in Israel and worldwide. He has been helping companies large and small around the world with Scrum and Kanban since 2009 and his book “Holy Land Kanban” contains many of his stories from the trenches.

The Professional Scrum with Kanban course is for all Scrum practitioners, with an emphasis on Scrum Masters looking to add Flow techniques to their toolbox

Completing this course will help you:

Add Kanban to Scrum to improve flow
Apply continuous quality to work
Optimise flow
Apply continuous integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
Improve the visualisation of work
Use Kanban's four key metrics
Apply progression criteria rules and policies to increase quality and reduce waste
Gain practical insights into the mechanics and practices of Kanban in the context of a Scrum Team.

Who is the course for?

Product Owners and Scrum Masters
Scrum Team members
Senior stakeholders who will manage agile delivery in large scale agile programs
Solution Managers, Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, PMO personnel, and Process Leads
Business stakeholders who work with Scrum Teams

Learning Path

Day One - Scrum primer

Overview of the Scrum framework
A visual walk-thru of a Sprint using Kanban

Day One - Kanban Theory & Practice

Visualisation of the Workflow
Limiting Work in Progress (WIP)
Active management of work items in progress
Queuing theory
Inspecting and adapting the team’s Definition of Workflow

Day One - Kanban in Practice

The Kanban Game – getKanban
Simulation of Kanban

Day Two - Scrum with Kanban

Where to start
Visualising the Sprint Backlog
Building a Kanban board
Applying the principles of workflow policies

Day Two - Introducing flow to Scrum events

Applying Kanban metrics: Cycle Time, WIP, Work Item Age and Throughput
Sprint Planning flow
Throughput and forecasting
#NoEstimates
Flow, impediments and the Daily Scrum
Retrospective and inspecting Kanban metrics

Day Two - Impact on Scrum Roles

Scrum Master and managing flow
Self-management vs Kanban workflow policies
Product Owners, backlogs, and queuing theory

CERTIFICATION

This course is delivered by certified executive trainer Mia Horrigan – PST , Agile and Program Agility Executive and Chief Operations Officer (COO) for ZXM.

All participants completing the Professional Scrum with Kanban course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum with Kanban I (PSK I) assessment. PSK class participants who attempt the PSK I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.