Professional Scrum with Kanban

Improving Flow for Scrum Teams

Always wanted to know how to use the Kanban principles and practices to optimize the flow of your Scrum team? How to use several Kanban metrics to measure flow?

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work. 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 is the defacto standard for how Agile teams work.  Scrum exists only in its entirety and functions well as a container for other techniques and practices. Scrum Teams keep improving how they work, based on what they learn by inspecting and adapting on an ongoing basis.

What You Will Learn

Students will learn how their Scrum Teams can introduce complementary practices from Kanban while continuing the way they are already working with Scrum, all without changing Scrum. In this class, students will:

• Gain a clear understanding of how flow works within the context of Scrum.
• Be introduced to Kanban practices that Scrum Teams can adapt to help improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
• Understand how to effectively use appropriate Kanban practices without changing Scrum.
• Learn a practical approach to improving transparency and visibility for their work.
• Get introduced to useful metrics in order to get more insight into flow. 

Subject Areas

• Dispelling Common Myths

• Understanding Professional Scrum

• Kanban Theory, Principles and Practices

• Kanban in Practice

• Scrum with Kanban

• Agile Metrics

Who Should Attend

Professional Scrum with Kanban is appropriate for practitioners who are looking for additional tools to improve their Scrum teams.

Professional Scrum with Kanban Certification

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. 

What Is Included

• One free attempt at the PSK I assessment (does not expire) - a $150 value. If you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PSK I certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85% you will be given a 2nd attempt at no cost
• PDF file of all material used
• Personal classroom page accessible to participants only
• Access to our Slack community, including quarterly Scrum Facilitator Huddle, Q&A, interaction with other community members, job opportunities and more

About the trainers

Andy Hiles

Andy is a highly experienced agile practitioner, Scrum coach and Professional Scrum Trainer.

Over his 13 years of working in both the private and public sectors, he has developed a deep understanding of the challenges around organisational complexity and the impact on delivery teams and behaviour.

His first agile experience was working as part of a small development team within the British Computing Society. It was there that Andy learned the true value of how close stakeholder interaction with rapid feedback can lead to teams producing great results while retaining a significant focus on return on investment and business value. 

Andy has worked with software delivery for both product and service organisations. He is an experienced Scrum Coach with recent examples of his ability to build up new Scrum teams to become highly successful Scrum delivery practitioners.

A firm believer that great teams build great products, Andy strives for success and in doing so displays his experience and passion for agile in every engagement.

Steve Trapps

Steve is an experienced Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer with 20 years plus of experience in delivering complex products in many different business sectors. He started his career as a software developer, working for Nestle before moving on to work for Sky building applications & websites for many of the English Premier League football teams.

Previously being a developer, Steve has worked in various teams (Scrum and none Scrum) so comes packed with real-life stories. From Start-Ups building the next social media network, up to large corporations handling thousands of transactions a second. If you want to learn from someone who has been there, then Steve would be able to share experiences to help you on your way.

In May 2004 and after spending 6 months working on a very demanding & soul-destroying project Steve decided to look for a better way to deliver products. It was either that or leave the industry. This led him to look into Agile approaches and in particular Scrum - his aim was to know to empower teams and individuals to make the right choices at the appropriate time.

Over 16 years+ later on from 2004, Steve's focus is still on helping individuals & teams to reach their full potential through professional development coaching and professional training.