Kanban India

Overview

Large organisations are so inherently complex that many agile transformations struggle, rather than living up to their promise. The result is a Babylonian confusion. Agile practices are frequently misunderstood, improperly imposed, or the right practices are applied in the wrong context. Governance structures and tools clash with agile and vice versa. Debates arise about the essence and limitations of agile, with some touting flow and value streams as the new agile. One can even sense a desire to reintroduce some of the old (waterfall) project management concepts, restricting agile to the team level.

The purpose of this 2-day workshop is to show the way out of this mess. Inspired by Marcus Aurelius' quote, "The impediment to action advances action," the workshop invites people to take a fresh look at organisational agility. It calls for a profound overhaul, pivoting from large scale agile transformations to more nuanced and context-specific complexity-informed strategies. Organisations create value and every organisation does so in its own unique way with its own unique challenges. Creating a sustained focus on value is complex because of the conflicting forces created by discovery, creation and delivery

Is your agile transformation experiencing setbacks or failing to deliver on its promises? Join this training designed to help organizations pivot to a post-agile, value focussed organisation. Through simulations and practical exercises, you will learn how to navigate complex value creation networks and integrate different perspectives. More than ad hoc bricolage it teaches how to build a coherent network of interdependent practices and how to focus improvement to serve the bigger picture. More than flow in value streams, participants learn to create freedom to flow in complex value creation networks.

Duration

2 Days (16 Hours) In Person

Timing

9 AM to 6 PM (90 Minutes of Lunch and Tea/Coffee Breaks)

Facilitators

Patrick Steyeart & Arlette Vercammen (Founders, Okaloa)

Batch Size

Upto 20

Participants Profile

Intermediate or advanced

Accreditation Institute

Okalo

Course Delivery Language

English

Approach of Delivery

Experience and learn through simulation, alternated with theory sessions

Recommendation

Attendees will be required to bring their own laptop for the session

Certification Details

Certificate of Participation

Venue

Bengaluru

Agenda

Day-1

1. Understand obstacles, key stone practices and scaling principles

Bring back clarity in the Babylonian confusion that agile has become – what is Scrum really and what is Kanban really? Deconstruct Scrum and Kanban into their differentiating parts (keystone practices). Learn about the scaling principles that help to adapt keystone practices to the level of scale where they are applicable. Discover the fundamental polarities that bring agile transformations to a halt.

The topics that will be covered in the 1st day include:

Why most teams in large organisations cannot do Scrum properly
What is Scrum without sprint goals? Is it Kanban?
Why column WIP limits are central to Kanban
The limitations of column WIP limits
Learning from the Scrum – Kanban polarity
Rituals and cadences – the intersection that does not make the difference
Enabling constraints as key stone practices – the difference that makes a difference
Using scaling principles to fit key stone practices to scale and context
Making sense of work using the triad of value discovery, creation, and delivery

Day-2

2. From flow in value streams to freedom to flow in value creation networks

Learn how value streams are an over-simplification of the actual value creation network. Move beyond the team level with limiting and enabling constraints in the process of focussed improvement. Learn to distinguish upstream from downstream and how to deal with external dependencies upstream on top of bottlenecks downstream. Discover the power of collaboration policies and the value slicing manoeuvre to create the freedom to flow in a liquid organisation.

The topics that will be covered in the 2nd day include:

The limitations of value streams
The flow challenge - upstream versus downstream
What is holding us back? What is the limiting constraint? Where is the bottleneck?
Implementing a drum-buffer-rope on a ‘kanban’ board - tokens and order points
Collaboration policies and 2nd order limiting constraints
Addressing external causes of delay with triage
Creating collaboration opportunities with the value slicing manoeuvre
Creating liquidity in a value creation network with many stakeholders and teams

Learning Objective

Learn to navigate the complexities and paradoxes within large organizations, and address common obstacles and challenges faced during agile transformations
Be realistic about the applicability of current methods
Identify the challenges to create flow in a value creation network
Develop organizational liquidity to match uncertain demand with constrained supply

Audience

Agile Coaches and Practitioners
Project and Program Managers
Organizational Leaders involved in transformation initiatives
Anyone experiencing challenges or setbacks in their agile transformation journey

Recommendation

Attendees will be required to bring their own laptop for the session

Course Deliverables

Attendees will receive access to the Takeaway Guide
Attendees will receive Certificate of participation from Okaloa
In person 2-day training full of learning and fun

Registration Fee

Early Bird - INR 30000 + 18% GST
Regular - INR 35000 + 18% GST

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