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Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK) Certification

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Course Description

Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK) provides experienced Scrum Masters and other practitioners with an introduction to incorporating Kanban practices into the Professional Scrum framework. This interactive and activity-based training course will teach students how to improve their working processes by adding proven flow techniques to the DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery (CIIn addition). In addition, students will gain skills to achieve better outcomes through workflow by integrating theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises.

Additionally, this course focuses on helping students track and manage flow metrics to provide more predictable delivery patterns, ultimately helping them overcome common delivery challenges. Finally, this course teaches students how to implement Kanban within a Professional Scrum environment and what good Kanban looks like.

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Gain a clear understanding of how flow works within the context of Scrum.
Be introduced to Kanban practices that Scrum Teams can adopt
Understand how to effectively use the appropriate Kanban practices
Learn a practical approach to improving transparency and visibility of work.

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Course Objectives

  • Gain a clear understanding of how flow works within the context of Scrum.
  • Be introduced to Kanban practices that Scrum Teams can adopt to help improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Understand how to effectively use the appropriate Kanban practices without changing.
  • Learn a practical approach to improving transparency and visibility of work.

Who Should Attend?

The Professional Scrum with Kanban course is for anyone doing Scrum. It is particularly beneficial for those people within an organization who use Scrum to deliver products to the market including Product Owners, Development Team Members and Scrum Masters.

Course Topics

Myths are like Kanban is for support work, Kanban is alternative to Scrum, Kanban is for complicated domains etc. Will see how Kanban can get together with Scrum to maximize the benefit of Scrum.

Optimizing flow requires defining what flow means in a Scrum context. Each Scrum Team must create its definition of “Workflow” containing the following elements:

  • Defined points at which the Scrum Team considers work to have started and to have finished.
  • A definition of the individual units of customer value that are flowing through the Scrum Team’s system (most likely Product Backlog Items (PBIs)).
  • A definition of the workflow states that the PBIs flow through from start to finish (of which there must be at least one active state).
  • Explicit policies about how workflows through each state (which may include items from a Scrum Team’s definition of “Done” and pull policies between stages).
  • A definition of how Work in Progress (WIP) will be limited.
  • A set Service Level Expectation (SLE) that communicates a forecast of how long it should take to complete work items.

First, a quick review of a key tenet of The Scrum Guide: Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Scrum mandates that the Sprint Backlog be transparent, but it provides limited guidance on how to accomplish this. Nor does it define how to achieve explicit transparency to the flow of work into the Product Backlog, from the Product Backlog into the Sprint Backlog, and whatever happens to the work after it makes it into a “Done” increment. This is where Kanban can help. By visualizing work in new ways, a Scrum Team can apply the set of practices laid out in this guide to more effectively optimize value delivery. These practices borrow from and build upon the principles of lean thinking, product development flow, and queuing theory.

Scrum Teams achieve flow optimization by using the following four practices:

  • Visualization of the workflow
  • Limiting WIP
  • Active management of work items in progress
  • Inspecting and adapting their definition of “Workflow”

Visualization using the Kanban board is the way the Scrum Team makes its workflow transparent. The board’s presentation should prompt the right conversations at the right time and proactively suggest opportunities for improvement.

Work in Progress (WIP) refers to the work items the Scrum Team has started but has not yet finished. Scrum Teams using Kanban must explicitly control these in-progress work items from the time they consider them “started” until the time they consider them “finished.” That control is usually represented as a number or numbers on a Kanban board. Those numbers are called “WIP Limits.”

Limiting WIP is a necessary component to achieve flow, but it alone is not sufficient. The third practice to establish flow is the active management of work items in progress. Active management can take several forms, including but not limited to the following:

  • Responding quickly to blocked work items.
  • Making sure that work items are only pulled into the workflow at about the same rate that they leave the workflow.
  • Ensuring work items aren’t left to age unnecessarily and are completed according to an established SLE.
  • Unclogging work that piles up in a column or columns.

Kanban in a Scrum context does not require any additional events to those outlined in The Scrum Guide. However, using a flow-based perspective can enhance Scrum events.

Upcoming Schedules

We are running auxiliary batches for this course!

For group inquiries, please contact us at devops@agilemania.com

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Join a Community of 35,000+ Practitioner

Download Brochure

Agilemania offers a 2-day Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK) Training, aimed at beginning Scrum Masters, that can lead to your PSK certification. Download the brochure and check the different Focus Areas covered within these 2 days of training.

Certification Assessments

All participants completing the Professional Scrum with Kanban course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum with Kanban I (PSK I) assessment. This assessment is only available to students of the class currently. The test is currently under construction and will be available soon. The industry-recognized PSK I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. If you attempt the PSK I assessment within 14 days of receiving the password and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

FAQs

Taking the 2-day Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) Training will cost you around INR 25K certification included.

The PSK certification is valid for life without the need of any renewal.

There are no such prerequisites to take this course.

The industry-recognized PSK I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. PSK class participants who attempt the PSK I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

As a response to the COVID-19, we have moved our classes online. Our Live Virtual format delivers the same benefits as our face-to-face training: expert instruction, hands-on labs and exercises, peer-to-peer collaboration, and high-quality instructional material.

Attendees may be eligible to apply for 16 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications.

Cancellation requests received within 24 hours of registration would be offered a full refund (minus payment gateway charges), please reach out to our support team through drop a refund request toconnect@agilemania.com. Visit our page for more details about Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Yes. The certification and evaluation fees are included in the cost of this course, along with the costs of course materials and learning aids.

The industry-recognized PSK I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%.

The process of enrolling for this classroom training is simple. The payment can be made through different options by using a debit/credit card which includes MasterCard, Visa Card, American Express or PayPal. Acknowledgement will be issued automatically via email to the candidates once payment is done.

Just write to us at connect@agilemania.com, and we will answer any queries you have.
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Professional Scrum™ with Kanban Training

In the Professional Scrum with Kanban course, learn how to improve the way you are working by applying Kanban practices in the context of Professional Scrum. Learn the importance of flow and be equipped with practical knowledge to implement Kanban practices to help Scrum Teams enhance how they work.
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