Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK)

Attending this course will give your teams the methods needed to achieve predictable delivery, in addition to preparing you to take the assessment for PSK 1 certification.

This course takes place on four consecutive days, each day being a half-day. The day starts at 9:00 AM and will wrap up each day by 12:30 PM Mountain Time.

Improving Your Teams Flow

Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK) is an interactive, activity-based training course that teaches experienced Scrum Masters and other Scrum practitioners how to improve the way they 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 also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I) certification exam.

There is a myth that teams need to choose between using Scrum or Kanban. There are many benefits to optimizing the flow of work in Scrum by leveraging Kanban practices. In this 2-day training course, students will learn the benefits of using Scrum and Kanban together.

What you will learn

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.

Course Objectives

• Understand flow and Kanban practices from the perspective of the Scrum Team
• Explain how Kanban practices can be used to improve flow within a Sprint
• Increase transparency by helping the Scrum Team visualize their Workflow
• Use data to create a Scrum Team’s Service Level Expectation (SLE) for use in improving delivery predictability
• Apply the concept of flow and Kanban practices during Scrum Events
• Assist the team in overcoming common flow challenges by actively managing WIP

What to Expect

Scrum.org and our Professional Scrum Trainers have worked with Daniel Vacanti and Yuval Yeret in the creation of this course, leveraging their Kanban expertise and knowledge. In 2007, Daniel helped to develop the Kanban Method for knowledge work, including managing the world’s first project implementation of Kanban. Yuval, the author of "Holy Land Kanban" is a recipient of the Lean Kanban community Brickell Key Award for his work helping establish a strong Kanban community with several enterprise product developments in Israel and worldwide. In addition, all trainers of this class must have real-world experience in both Scrum and Kanban.

View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.

What's Included

• One assessment voucher for certification (valued at $200)
• Artifacts from the class (slide deck, whiteboard with class work, additional notes)
• Networking opportunities

Certification Assessments

All participants completing the PSK course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum with Kanban certification assessment. PSK class participants who attempt the PSK assessment within 14 days of the class and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses can claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org. Find instructions here.

Trainer

Eric Landes is a Scrum.org Certified Professional Scrum Trainer. He is experienced in working with small and large enterprise development organizations and individuals. His years of experience as an agile coach, DevOps Consultant, and Technical Architect contribute to his ability to help organizations transform.

Eric has presented on Kanban, Unit Testing, agile and other topics at many conferences and user groups. He's deeply skilled in agile/Scrum and DevOps and has introduced agile to many different teams using Scrum, Kanban, and XP methodologies, and has introduced DevOps practices such as Continuous Integration, and Infrastructure as Code to large enterprise development teams. He has also helped improve quality practices within teams, including Behavior Driven Development, Continuous Testing, and collaboration techniques.

He's excited to share his knowledge with other professionals looking to add Kanban to their toolbelt.