Professional Scrum with Kanban

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Enhance Your Scrum with Kanban Practices

The Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course is a 2-day, hands-on, exercise-driven course that teaches Kanban within the context of a Scrum team. This course helps students understand the principles of good Kanban practices as applied to better management within and around a sprint. By the end, you’ll have practical tools to improve predictability and efficiency—without adding extra bureaucracy.

Kanban brings a fresh perspective to Scrum events, making them more effective by introducing flow-based controls and simplifying estimates. You’ll discover faster, easier, and more reliable ways to manage work and expectations within Scrum. Kanban will improve the predictability of outcomes, allowing your team to adapt quickly and deliver value consistently.

Kanban will change the way you approach Scrum

Kanban and Scrum are Complementary Practices

Kanban is often seen as a separate or opposing methodology, but this course shows how Kanban aligns seamlessly with Scrum, enhancing its structure rather than contradicting it.

Kanban is for more than Maintenance and Support

Many view Kanban as useful only for interrupt-driven tasks like maintenance, but this course reveals how it can benefit any Scrum team by introducing flow into daily operations and fostering continuous improvement. Kanban goes beyond visualizing tasks to bring meaningful flow controls that drive efficiency. Kanban can provide value throughout the entire Scrum process, both inside and outside Sprints.

This course helps product owners, Scrum Masters, and Developers get a handle on work in Scrum.

Thoroughly learn Professional Scrum with Kanban

With this knowledge, you’ll understand how to integrate Kanban’s flow principles into Scrum, helping to solve flow-related issues and transition toward continuous delivery without sacrificing Scrum’s structure. Whether you’re aiming to refine your workflow or adapt Scrum to better fit your team’s dynamics, this course equips you with the knowledge to elevate your Scrum practice. Join us and learn how to enable agility and the right product every Sprint!

Why Scrum.org?

Choosing Scrum.org means choosing quality, consistency, and expertise. Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber directed the creation of every course with hands-on exercises aligned with the Scrum Guide. Scrum.org classes are the intent of Scrum, right from the inventor.

Aside from a first-hand understanding of Scrum, what sets our courses apart is the collaborative approach. With input from hundreds of Professional Scrum Trainers worldwide, our courses continually evolve through a steward model. This collective expertise ensures that our content reflects the latest thinking and best practices in Scrum, giving you access to insightful and innovative training.

When you choose Scrum.org, you’re getting more than a course. You’re getting the course created by the inventor of Scrum, which is curated and evolved by a global network of experts.

Why Dr. Suscheck?

Dr. Charles Suscheck is a seasoned software development and Agile education expert, with over 30 years of experience that spans from hands-on development to enterprise-level Agile coaching. Starting as a developer, he has grown into a leading figure in Agile transformation, helping organizations align business and IT to unlock the full potential of Agile principles. His classes range from advanced, highly technical programming classes to executive-level organizational change classes.

Dr. Suscheck holds a Doctor of Computer Science, a Master’s in Computer Information Systems, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. He has served as a full-time faculty member at Colorado State University and continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member at several universities. Beyond teaching, he consults with large organizations, helping align business and IT to maximize the benefits of Agile principles. Charles is a past Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner course Steward.

Learning Objectives

• Define how flow operates within the context of Scrum.
• Understand that Scrum is a framework that requires additional practices.
• Experience how Scrum can be improved with a better focus on flow.
• Analyze Kanban and flow metrics to improve predictability.
• Understand the key components of pure Kanban.
• Know why Kanban does not change the Scrum framework.
• Apply flow metrics to each of the Scrum events.
• Identify where Scrum roles can participate in and leverage Kanban flow.

Outline

The PSK course combines lectures, case studies, and interactive exercises, and you collaborate with other students.

• Scrum framework primer
  • Common misunderstandings in Scrum.
  • How Kanban can address Scrum misunderstandings.
• Kanban theory, principles, and practices 
  • Kanban flow exercises.
  • Characteristics of a true Kanban board.
  • Limiting and managing flow.
• Kanban in practice 
  • A hands-on Kanban Simulation.
  • Reading cycle time scatter plots.
  • Understanding a cumulative flow diagram.
• Scrum with Kanban 
  • How to introduce Kanban into a Scrum process.
  • Identifying workflows and what to visualize in your Scrum process.
  • Improving predictability and reducing waste through flow metrics.
• Introducing flow to Scrum’s events 
  • Using throughput metrics.
  • How a work item aging chart can identify what to work on next.
  • Managing flow and work in process in the daily scrums.
  • Monte Carlo simulations and predictability.
  • Picking the right WIP limit.
  • Using flow metrics in the Scrum events.
• Kanban’s impact on Scrum roles and artifacts
  • What changes and what doesn’t when implementing Kanban.
  • Solving flow issues.
  • Evolving towards continuous delivery.

Who should attend?

The course is particularly beneficial for experienced Scrum Masters, looking to take their Scrum team to the next level of efficiency. It assumes a basic understanding of Scrum.  If you are new to Scrum, you should read the Scrum Guide (www.scrumguides.org) before class. Scrum basics will not be taught, but rather ways to improve flow around each element of Scrum. The course is perfectly appropriate for non-IT professionals who are looking to apply Scrum in their context. 

Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum with Kanban course, students receive credentials to take the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I) assessment, which earns them the industry-recognized  PSK I Certification. Students take the assessment independently after class.  

Virtual via Zoom.

We’ll use Zoom and MURAL during our class. You don’t need to be an expert in either tool. You won’t need an account for either one or any applications - everything is completely browser-based. 

Having a good internet connection, a webcam, and a microphone will help as the class is very interactive.

For more information or to arrange group rates contact:  info@juniperhillassociates.com