Agile Kanban: Kanban for Software Development Teams

Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management.

It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to

incrementally change the underlying process.

—David Anderson, Kanban

Kanban is a popular framework used to implement agile and DevOps software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work. Work items are represented visually on a kanban board, allowing team members to see the state of every piece of work at any time.

A Kanban board is an agile project management tool designed to help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency (or flow).

It can help both agile and DevOps teams establish order in their daily work. Kanban boards use cards, columns, and continuous improvement to help technology and service teams commit to the right amount of work, and get it done!

This course will help you explore how working on an Agile project using Kanban has benefits for your development team, your end users, and your organization as a whole.

We will identify various process flow related issues including too much work in progress, underutilization of resources, lengthy tasks, unequal sized tasks etc. using simple and easy to understand demonstrations on Kanban board.

We will not only identify these inefficiencies but also solve for the same by continuously improving the process flow using Kanban Board.

Here is a list of the topics we will cover in this course:

• Introduction to Kanban & Kanban Board

• Finding Inefficiencies in the Process

• Limiting Work in Progress

• Under utilization of Resources

• Unequal Sized Tasks

• Marking the Tasks

• Other Inefficiencies/Issues

Kanban Practices

• Defining Done

• Daily Stand up

• Specifying Rules

Key Agile Concepts

• Understanding & Creating User Stories, Theme & Epic

• What is Product Backlog

• Difference between Product Backlog & Product Roadmap

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Agile

• How Estimation is done in Agile

• Why Relative Estimation in Agile

• T-Shirt & Fibonacci Estimation

• Planing Poker in Agile

• Understanding & Creating Burn down Charts

• Minimum Viable Product

• Team Velocity

This course is ideal for software developers, project managers, software leadership, or anyone that would have an interest and gain benefit from running an Agile project and delivering maximum value early to your customers.

No prior experience is necessary to take this course. So, if even if you don’t know what Kanban is and the various principles and concepts under Kanban and Agile Project Management, not to worry.

We will cover all of these concepts from scratch.