Kanban Essentials Professional Certification
Validates a working knowledge of Kanban for managing flow, limiting work in progress and spotting improvement opportunities in the delivery of products and services. Open to anyone who wants to practise Kanban professionally.
Why Take It
It shows you can set up and run a Kanban system that reduces bottlenecks and shortens lead times, a skill that applies to agile teams and operational work alike.
Who It's For
- Agile practitioners adding Kanban to their toolkit
- Project and delivery managers
- Teams wanting a flexible, flow-based way of working
- Operations and service staff coordinating work
- Anyone starting out as a Kanban professional
What You'll Be Able to Do
- Explain the origins of Kanban and its five core properties
- Design a Kanban board with suitable work item types and workflow
- Set and manage WIP limits, queues and buffers
- Identify bottlenecks and handle blocked items
- Read a cumulative flow diagram and interpret lead time and throughput
- Relate Kanban to Lean, Agile, Kaizen and the Theory of Constraints
What the Syllabus Covers
- Lean manufacturing and Lean principles
- Agile, JIT and Kaizen
- Kanban history and the five core properties
- Theory of Constraints
- Value Stream Mapping
- Implementation, work item types and card walls
- Pull and push, workflow and WIP limits
- Queues, buffers and cadences
- Bottlenecks, issues and blocked items
- Metrics: cumulative flow diagram, lead time, trends, throughput
Exam and Credential
- Delivery
- Online
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Digital Badge
- Yes
- Valid For
- 3 years
Prerequisites
None stated.
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