Professional Scrum with Kanban

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Welcome to a collaborative high-energy 2-day class for experienced Scrum practitioners, developers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters looking to improve predictability, effectivity, and efficiency.

This course is focused on using Kanban strategy for advanced optimization of established Scrum Teams. It's suitable for advanced Teams that look for ways to improve their flow in the context of Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD.

Who should attend

This course is specifically suitable for:

• Members of Scrum Teams struggling with lots of operations and mountains of parallel work
• Product Owners looking for more predictability
• Experienced Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches looking to improve the team's efficiency and effectivity

Student Reviews

"Absolutely phenomenal class! Richard was an amazing teacher who taught not only from theory but also from his own experiences. He highly encouraged useful discussions and encouraged us to ask challenging questions whenever we were unsure"

"I want to express my sincere thanks for the fantastic knowledge sharing during the course. Rishard's classes, insights, and guidance played a crucial role in helping me pass the test on my first attempt. I appreciate the dedication and expertise that made the learning experience truly effective. Highly recommended!"

"Richard Ross was a brilliant host and had the ability to talk for two days straight about a complex topic and make it engaging, really enjoyed his class and would recommend"

"Richard had a deep knowledge of the topic and a huge amount of experience. I really enjoyed the training not being a plain theory, but Richard always connected it with real stories and business cases from his career. He has a witty and easy-going style, which made the training fun."

"The training led by Richard was very interactive, informative and instructive. He was straightforward, open to answer any questions, good listener and also sharing lots of good and interesting examples from his current and past experience."

Apply Kanban Practices and Improve Flow in Professional Scrum 

Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK) is an interactive, activity-based training course that teaches how to improve the way of work by applying Kanban practices in the context of Professional Scrum. Through theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises, students will learn how Kanban practices can help Scrum Teams achieve better outcomes by improving the flow of work. Organizations using DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) will find adding flow to their application of Scrum to be a natural complement.

The course includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I) certification exam.

Course Overview

Students will learn how to optimize their workflow by adding four Kanban practices to Scrum:

• Visualizing the Sprint Backlog workflow on a Kanban board
• Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) 
• Actively managing work items in progress 
• Continually inspecting and adapting the way the team uses flow optimization

By leveraging these practices, teams improve transparency, collaboration and self-management, ultimately improving their ability to achieve Sprint Goals at a sustainable pace. In addition, this course has a focus on helping students track and manage flow metrics to provide more predictable delivery patterns, ultimately helping them to overcome common delivery challenges with getting to “Done”. Students will leave with a better understanding of what good Kanban looks like and how to implement it within a Professional Scrum environment.

 Why Richard?

Richard is an experienced Agile Practitioner with patience, persistence, and reportedly some sense of humor :)

He is the only ProKanban.org trainer and one of two Scrum.org trainers based in the Czech Republic.

His mission is to ease out product development struggles and introduce to people the comfort of a sustainable pace of work and delivery. He likes to put great emphasis on transparency and visualization, to make sure that everyone truly understands what’s going on.

He spends the majority of his work time on active coaching, which reflects on practically-aimed training.

He worked with dozens of teams in various organizations and setups. In recent years, mostly in LeSS-like transformations. 

Being an accredited Professional Scrum Trainer™ with Scrum.org, the quality of the training, consistency of highly-tuned materials, and deep professional experience are guaranteed. 

Last but not least, he is an active member of Large Scale Scrum community as a Candidate LeSS Trainer.