Lean In Agile - Enhancing Your Agile And Scrum Skills

How Lean thinking can make you a stronger Agile practitioner

What you'll learn
Understand Lean concepts and how to apply them
Prioritise using a value stream
Understand the Lean concept of Waste and how to reduce it
Apply Flow to Agile and Scrum development
Appreciate why Work in Progress impacts agility and how to address this
Compare Pull and Push based approaches to development
Use Kanban boards effectively
Relate Gemba walks to Agile principles
Understand and apply Lean metrics
Use Root cause analysis and 5 Whys to assess problems
Apply Kaizen in your Agile development
Requirements
Experience working with teams in New Product Development is useful
Experience working in Agile approaches such as Scrum would be helpful
Description
Even once you've been on a Scrum course and run some Sprints with your team, there's so much more to learn to really become effective in Agile development.  The ideas of the Agile Manifesto were inspired by, and built on, many of the concepts of Lean development.  Despite the importance of Lean as a background to Agile, few courses explain Lean ideas in depth.  Jay has 20+ years of experience in leading teams from small companies to multinationals and across disciplines including development, product, program management and quality.  In this course, Jay looks at Lean development and how Lean approaches can be used to make make you a stronger Agile practitioner.Jay covers not only the techniques but the mindset.  For Lean and Agile to be successful, you need to know not only what processes to follow, but why and how those processes are used.     The course includes:Visualising the flow of value from development to customersHow to identify unproductive work and reduce it through continuous improvementTechniques for finding constraints which are blocking effective flow of valueThe use of Kanban boards to manage work and to limit Work in ProgressHow to identify and use effective Lean metricsThis course is intended for anyone working in an Agile team, especially those looking to increase their understanding beyond the basics of an approach such as Scrum.  As well as developers, this may include Product Owners, Business Analysts or Project Managers depending on organisation.  But because Agile is very team-centric, every team member needs to understand how to get involved in building and communicating.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course introduction

Lecture 2 What is Lean and how does it fit with Agile and Scrum?

Section 2: Lean Concepts - what can we learn from Lean?

Lecture 3 Introducing Lean Concepts

Lecture 4 Focus on Value

Lecture 5 Eliminate Waste

Lecture 6 Creating Flow

Lecture 7 Minimising Work in Progress

Section 3: Lean Techniques - how can we apply Lean?

Lecture 8 Introducing Lean Techniques

Lecture 9 Optimising flow using Pull

Lecture 10 Using Kanban to aid Pull

Lecture 11 Kanban and Boards

Lecture 12 Gemba - where the work happens

Lecture 13 Creating a Minimum Viable Product

Section 4: Improving with Lean - how can Lean change the way you work?

Lecture 14 Kaizen and an improvement mindset

Lecture 15 Effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Lecture 16 Using Lean Metrics

Lecture 17 Measuring Work in Progress

Agile practitioners looking to develop their skills,Team members interested in understanding more about Agile and Lean techniques,Developing Product Owners wanting to understand more about Agile and Lean techniques,Project Managers looking to add Agile and Lean concepts to your skillset