Practicing Kanban Using Azure Boards Training in Pine Bluff

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Course Description

 

All software development teams have a desire to increase their flow and throughput. With the powerful combination of Kanban and Azure Boards, they can do just that. This one day course will introduce Kanban and demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards to effectively practice Kanban, achieve flow, and begin improving throughput and predictability. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common team project, on a common case study.

Course Length: 1 Days
Course Tuition: $350 (US)

Prerequisites

None

Course Outline

 

Introduction to Kanban

  • Kanban overview
  • Kanban core practices
  • Kanban support in Azure Boards
  • Configuring an Azure DevOps project
  • Managing a product backlog
  • Hands-on

2. Visualizing the Workflow

  • Kanban board overview
  • Kanban board vs. a backlog
  • Kanban board vs. a task board
  • Defining the workflow
  • Making policies explicit
  • Definition of Done
  • Defining classes of service (swim lanes)
  • Defining task checklists and inline tests
  • Filtering the board
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Hands-on

3. Limiting WIP

  • Work in Progress (WIP) overview
  • Visualizing WIP limits
  • Creating a pull system
  • Splitting columns into “doing” and “done”
  • Challenges with limiting WIP
  • Bottlenecks
  • Hands-on 

4. Managing for Flow

  • Flow-based metrics
  • Cycle time vs. lead time
  • Little’s Law
  • Flow-based analytics
  • Cumulative Flow Diagrams
  • Scatterplots
  • ActionableAgile Analytics
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Achieving flow and predictability
  • Hands-on

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