International Scrum Institute Podcast
Scrum Institute MasterClass Bundle
Hi there, Here is Yeliz Obergfell from International Scrum Institute. Recently, our CEO and Chief Trainer, Erkan Sutculer, has delivered his Scrum Institute’s Scrum MasterClass Training.
This Scrum Institute training week has been ridiculously busy and exhaustive, but also a fun week for us. We can only hope that you enjoyed watching the Scrum Institute classes as much as we did while we were presenting them. Thanks a million times for showing up and even more so for actively engaging with us and our group of professionals.
If you found this the Scrum Institute MasterClass valuable for your professional development and if you would love to continue learning together with us, here is the limited-time MasterClass Bundle.
Scrum Institute MasterClass
Many people have asked us since last week, what if they already possess one or some of the Scrum Institute programs provided in the MasterClass Bundle. If this is the case, we will be happy to swap them with other programs from our portfolio of International Scrum Institute and SkillFront programs to ensure that the MasterClass Bundle will perfectly comply with your goals and needs. After your enrollment to the Scrum Institute MasterClass Bundle, please let us know the names of certifications you had already completed in the past, and with which programs you would love to swap them. We’re going to immediately handle your swap request, and deliver your new Scrum Institute exam access codes.
Did you know that the number one reason people fail in Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban is not due to the lack of business savviness and experience but because they don’t have formal Scrum Institute Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban trainings and certifications to prove their expertise?
Here is the problem you face: Even if they feel that they need you as their Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban Professional for their teams and business, most people, teams, and companies do not know how to interview and select Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban Professionals, so they end up trusting and hiring the ones who have relevant Scrum Institute Scrum, DevOps and Kanban trainings and certifications.
Which means without possessing proper Scrum Institute Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban Professional credentials, you’ll never get a chance to serve your clients and build a positive impact on their goals, lives, and businesses.
Luckily for you, there is now a solution. Let me introduce you to the Scrum Institute MasterClass Bundle: 8 Certifications (including Scrum Master Accredited Certification) For Scrum, DevOps and Kanban Professionals to help everyone master in Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban skills and prove their expertise with courses and certifications.
About Scrum Institute
Scrum Institute is the Leading Independent Training, Certification, and Accreditation Institute that helps Companies and Professionals get accredited with worldwide renowned and recognized Scrum Certifications and prove their competence in the Scrum Domain. Scrum Institute empowers Professionals and Enterprises worldwide to build their Careers and Companies to sell their Outstanding Agile Products and Services.
Scrum Institute Accreditation
Scrum Institute is a private company officially registered in Switzerland. Scrum Institute build its services, and they serve you and your business from Switzerland with love. Scrum Institute has been founded and is being operated by Erkan Sutculer’s leadership. The registered purpose of Scrum Institute Accreditation officially attests that: Scrum Institute is accredited to provide education and certification services globally in ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, ISO 14298, Scrum, Kanban, Software Engineering, Six Sigma, Quality Management, DevOps, Leadership, Management, Software Testing and Project Management domains.
The overall process to get your Scrum Institute MasterClass Bundle created by Yeliz Obergfell: 8 Certifications For Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban Professionals is simple, fast, and rewarding.
Step-1: You register online.
Step-2: We immediately send your companion training materials, exam access codes, and other bonuses for Scrum Institute MasterClass Bundle: 8 Certifications For Scrum, DevOps, and Kanban Professionals.
Step-3: You take your online test exams and answer multiple-choice questions from your device within 2 years after registration.
Step-4: We instantly send your lifetime valid and accredited Scrum Institute certifications and your shareable and verifiable digital badges after you pass your exams.
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How to know what Scrum Institute Programs are right for you?
The best method we recommend to our students is to reflect on what you would like to accomplish in your career and then match those goals and plans to various Scrum roles and responsibilities.
Scrum Masters: They’re servant leaders, but in the same organizational hierarchy level as the Scrum Team. They’re responsible for the correct application of the Scrum Framework within the team and business.
Scrum Product Owners: They’re entrepreneurs. They bring and drive the vision. They don’t need to know necessarily how the product is being developed. And yet, they’re the bridge between engineering teams and business stakeholders, and they’re responsible for the ROI (Return on Investment) of their projects.
Scrum Developers: They’re cross-functional designers, developers, architects, system engineers, and testers to get the job done! A Scrum Developer doesn’t always need to develop software, but he possesses skills and delivers work, including design, architecture, testing, test automation, etc.
Agile Scrum Executives (Leaders): They are team leads, managers, directors, and other higher level executives who oversee agile transformation and business throughput of their agile Scrum organizations.
Agile Coaches: Agile Coaches are usually (but not necessarily) experienced Scrum Masters. And yet, instead of being part of the Scrum Team, they typically oversee multiple Scrum teams remotely. They guide not only Scrum teams but also executives to strengthen the agile delivery and business culture.
Scrum Trainers: Scrum Trainers go and train teams for a few days and then move to the next training assignment with other clients.
Scaled Scrum Experts: They subtly run larger Scrum projects, even if your Scrum Team members are distributed in geographically separate locations!
Please note that Scrum Institute Scrum MasterClass Bundle is closing very soon. This Scrum Institute course and certification program will sell for USD 1,997. This introductory price of USD 247 is a “Register for it now before it’s gone” offer, so act fast!
Link for registration: https://www.scrum-institute.org/now
Scrum Institute Team, Yeliz Obergfell and Erkan Sutculer
Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass Live
Invitation To Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass Live, 10,11,12 January, 6+ Hours Live Teaching, 3 Day Sprint
Dear Scrum Institute Friends,
We’re about a couple of weeks away from our free Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass Event, where our founder, Erkan Sutculer is gonna be teaching live for 6+ hours and delivering a ton of value.
We will broadcast this 3 Day Sprint, Live and Daily on January 10th, 11th, and 12th at 11 am CET on our Scrum Institute Private Entrepreneurship Masterclass Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/smasterclass
Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass Live
Have you joined our private Scrum Institute Facebook group yet?
This is a place you can meet, socialize, learn and support each other. It’s kind of exclusive… not just anyone can get in… You’ve gotta be signed up for our community — which you already are. So we invite you to join us.
This is a great chance to hang out with others who are going through the Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass with you… mix and mingle with each other… get help from our coaches and staff… bounce ideas off each other and share inspiration… and just generally network and have fun.
PLUS… It’s basically one really big, awesome, virtual party… but no hangover at the end… and it will help grow your skills, knowledge, and perspective, which means an amazing career and life you dream of!
We’ll share the formula that has been used by thousands of successful entrepreneurs — and show you how you can put it to work right away. You will learn and be ready to:
find & launch your business,
build a predictable marketing system that works around the clock,
and magnetically attract a flood of new customers that pay, stay, and refer.
This is a “don’t miss” event, so put it on your calendar right now.
AND we’re going to have a lot going on in this Scrum Institute Masterclass — way more than the three live lessons — and way more than I can share in this email.
The Scrum Institute Private Entrepreneurship Masterclass Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/smasterclass) will have additional live sessions. Our coaches will be answering questions here, plus you can network with other members of the Entrepreneurship Masterclass:
CLICK BELOW to join the Scrum Institute Entrepreneurship Masterclass Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/smasterclass
Bottom line — it’s gonna be supercool, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
We’re looking forward to seeing you live on Monday, January 10th at 11 am CET for the day #1 broadcast of 3 Day Sprint. Mark your calendars!
OK… that’s it. See you soon…
Best regards,
Scrum Institute
Yeliz Obergfell, Erkan Sutculer
Scrum Institute Free Scrum Video Training
Scrum Institute Free Scrum Video Training
Scrum Masterclass Live Event Video Recordings (10+ Hours Training — NEW)
Ladies and Gentlemen, last week has been ridiculously busy and exhaustive for both Erkan Sutculer and Yeliz Obergfell, but also a fun week for us. We can only hope that you enjoyed watching the classes as much as we did while we were presenting them.
Please send your “likes” and “comments” if that’s the case and thanks a million times for showing up every day and actively engaging with us and the audience.
If you found those classes valuable for your professional development, and if you would love to continue learning together with us, here are the Scrum Institute Scrum Masterclass Live Event Video Recordings produced by Erkan Sutculer and Yeliz Obergfell, with limited-time availability.
https://www.scrum-institute.org/Free-Scrum-Video-Training
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Your Exclusive Training Gift From Scrum Institute’s Erkan Sutculer and Yeliz Obergfell
Scrum Institute Scrum Masterclass Live Event Video Recordings are sincerely exclusive gifts for our community members and followers like you to appreciate and celebrate your commitment to learning and investing in your career. That is why we’ll never offer these video recordings to the public audience for free, and we’ll very soon sell them for hundreds of dollars. Please be informed that this free video training will be removed soon, so take your time to watch before we will remove them from our Scrum Institute website.
If you want to become an all-around agile professional, if you want to conveniently manage your agile projects, and if you want to develop yourself as a master/expert/leader, and most importantly, if you want to become “The Northstar” and “The Guide” of others and your own career, don’t miss out on our free video training, Erkan Sutculer’s Scrum Institute Scrum Masterclass Live Event Video Recordings (10+ Hours Training — NEW).
https://www.scrum-institute.org/Free-Scrum-Video-Training
We will be happy to see you in, work with you, and serve you.
Have a great day and take good care of yourself.
Yeliz Obergfell, Erkan Sutculer
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SkillFront ISO Certifications For Businesses
In this episode of SkillFront Magazine, we talked to SkillFront’s Yeliz Obergfell, Vice President – Professional Services, about SkillFront, the premier skill development and official credentialing organization, compliant with ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and ISO/IEC 17024:2012 standards for certification bodies. Our interesting subject for today is SkillFront ISO Certifications For Businesses.
Why Should Companies Get SkillFront ISO 9001 Company Certification?
The SkillFront Certified Professional Certification programs’ chief goal is to be market relevant, consensus-based, support innovation, and provide solutions to global challenges. That means thriving career chances for professionals, and meeting and exceeding demands from businesses and their valuable clients.
Having formal ISO quality management systems in place is vital to getting clients to sign up for offers, and that’s why having an ISO 9001 company certification is so important. If you’re wondering about the easiest and fastest way to get an ISO 9001 company certification, you’re in the right place. In this episode today, we tell you all about our offer of an online ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certified Business Certification. It’s a perfect way to ensure that you have ISO 9001 quality management systems in place. It will also help you prove compliance with these globally-recognized and continuously improving standards, thanks to the ISO certification for your company. Utilizing our fast and easy system for ISO 9001 company certification is a no brainer, and in this video, we’ll go over all the reasons why you should do it today!
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How Much Does ISO 9001 Certification Cost?
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ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certified Business™ Certification (With an Online Verifiable Barcode on it)
BONUS #1. Sharable and Verifiable Digital Badge (Your Company Name Engraved On It, Custom Made For You)
BONUS #2. ISO 9001:2015 Quality Manual: 45+ Pages
The one-time discounted registration fee for this entire ISO 9001 Certification is only USD 497. There are no other fees ever after your registration.
SkillFront ISO 9001 Certification Cost
What are the requirements for ISO 9001 Certification?
SkillFront offers its worldwide renowned and recognized services with 100% Money-Back Guarantee.
Are you afraid of failing in your registration for the ISO 9001 Company Certification? You no longer need to be because we are going to do all of the legwork for you. We take all risks on our shoulders, so you can focus on doing what you do best, which is serving your clients at your highest levels possible and positively influence their outcomes that would not happen otherwise.
All legitimate businesses that serve the professional and public interest in good faith are eligible to comply with ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certified Business™ standards. Nevertheless, at the end of our validation process for your company, if our team will conclude that we will be unable to certify your business and its practices in ISO 9001:2015 standards, we will hassle free refund your full registration fee without asking any questions.
What are the benefits of ISO 9001:2015 Certification?
ISO 9001 are the standards that set out the requirements for quality management systems. It helps businesses and organizations to be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction. Implementing ISO 9001 quality management systems will help you:
Assess the overall context of your organization to define who is affected by your work and what they expect from you. This will enable you to clearly state your objectives and identify new business opportunities.
Put your customers first, making sure you consistently meet their needs and enhance their satisfaction. This can lead to repeat customers, new clients and increased business for your organization.
Work in a more efficient way as all your processes will be aligned and understood by everyone in the business or organization. This increases productivity and efficiency, bringing internal costs down.
Meet the necessary statutory and regulatory requirements.
Expand into new markets, as some sectors and clients require ISO 9001 before doing business.
Identify and address the risks associated with your organization.
Compliant with the standards of ISO/IEC 17024:2012 Conformity: General requirements for bodies operating certification of companies and professionals, ISO/IEC 17021:2015 Conformity: Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems.
SkillFront ISO 9001 Certification
SkillFront ISO 9001 Certification
How Can Companies Register and Get Started With SkillFront ISO 9001 Certification?
I am sure that you must be very busy serving your customers and business stakeholders at your highest levels possible, so I don’t want to take up too much of your time.
Today I would like to give you a brief outline of all our ISO company certification programs. You can browse our limited-time reduced plans and more info about these programs from their respective links below, so you can see and decide if these programs work for your organization:
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO/IEC 20000:2018 Information Technology Service Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health And Safety Management Systems Certified Business™
ISO 14298:2013 Graphic Technology – Management Of Security Printing Processes Certified Business™
Final Notes and Verdict About SkillFront, The Competence Platform For Professionals and Businesses
In summary, SkillFront is a great company to work with and collaborate. SkillFront Accreditation: SkillFront Is The Premier Skill Development and Official Credentialing Organization, Compliant With ISO/IEC 17024:2012 Standards For Certification Bodies.
SkillFront is proud to be compliant with the standards of ISO/IEC 17024:2012 Conformity: General requirements for bodies operating certification of companies and professionals, ISO/IEC 17021:2015 Conformity: Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems, and ISO 9001:2015 Conformity: Requirements for quality management systems.
SkillFront is a private LLC registered in Switzerland. They build their services, and they serve you and your business from Switzerland with love. SkillFront is the leading organizational and professional competence development and certification body that provides education and certification services globally in all domains of business and information technologies.
SkillFront Address and Location: Samstagernstrasse 57 8832 Wollerau Switzerland
SkillFront CEO: Yeliz Obergfell (Yeliz Obergfell on LinkedIn)
SkillFront Other Key Executives: Erkan Sutculer (Erkan Sutculer on LinkedIn), Eric Lefebvre (Eric Lefebvre on LinkedIn)
SkillFront Reviews From Satistified Professionals and Enterprises: https://www.facebook.com/skillfront/reviews
See you next time!
SkillFront
Inside How SkillFront Works, SkillFront shares the biggest “a-ha moments” and professional lessons with complete transparency. From tough lessons learned, to mindset, to pure professional strategy, SkillFront pulls you into a world of business professionals and entrepreneurs, and shares journeys and lessons of many companies and professionals to building great results for their clients and audiences. All, thanks to the help and unprecedented assistance they obtained from the SkillFront, skill and competence platform for professionals and companies.
SkillFront, Skill Platform Recognized By ISO/IEC 17024:2012, ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and ISO 9001:2015
SkillFront, Skill Platform Recognized By ISO/IEC 17024:2012, ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and ISO 9001:2015
SkillFront Is The Premier Skill Development and Official Credentialing Organization, Compliant With ISO/IEC 17024:2012 Standards For Certification Bodies.
SkillFront is a public-benefit certification body that provides education and certification services. SkillFront accreditation operates under industry-recognised international standards and requirements, and maintains integrity while taking into account professional and public interest. SkillFront reviews provide objective evidence that a person or an organization operates at the highest level of ethical, legit SkillFront, professional, and technical standards.
SkillFront certifies a wide range of professionals and organizations, including governmental entities, commercial businesses, and professional associations. SkillFront certification programs are based on recognized and peer-reviewed international standards that ensure global acceptance.
The SkillFront Certified Professional Certification programs’ chief goal is to be market relevant, consensus-based, support innovation, and provide solutions to global challenges. That means thriving career chances for professionals, and meeting and exceeding demands from businesses and their valuable clients.
Take a deep breath. It’s your time to unlock the success blueprint as a SkillFront professional.
Yeliz Obergfell, Erkan Sutculer, SkillFront
Scrum Institute
International Scrum Institute, Switzerland
(Registration Number: CHE-138.739.580)
Address: Samstagernstrasse 57, 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
Web: https://www.scrum-institute.org
About International Scrum Institute™
International Scrum Institute, located at the Home of Quality, in Switzerland, is the premier competence development and credentialing organization and certification body for Scrum software development and delivery framework.
Established in 2011, as one of the most experienced Scrum authorities, International Scrum Institute is a public-benefit certification body that provides education and certification services. International Scrum Institute operates under the latest Scrum Guide 2020 Edition, industry-approved international standards, requirements, and proven best practices to empower its clients to create value, develop and deliver great software.
International Scrum Institute has proven its worldwide acceptance and reputation by being the choice of more than 673,700 Scrum Practitioners in 143 Countries. (Read 1000+ Successful User Case Studies) International Scrum Institute maintains integrity and impartiality while taking into account professional and public interest. International Scrum Institute provides objective evidence that a person or an organization operates at the highest and most up-to-date level of ethical, legal, professional, and technical standards of the Scrum framework.
International Scrum Institute certifies a wide range of professionals and organizations, including governmental entities, military forces, commercial businesses, and professional associations. (Scrum Institute LinkedIn Community) International Scrum Institute certification programs are based on recognized national and international compliance standards that ensure domestic and global acceptance.
International Scrum Institute is the leading skill development and certification body for professionals and organizations compliant with the Agile Alliance® corporate membership standards that form a unified system for recognizing competent Scrum organizations worldwide. As a global skill development and certification body, International Scrum Institute is committed to ensuring excellent service standards delivered by those we comply with. International Scrum Institute is proud to be an approved corporate member of Agile Alliance®. (More Info About Scrum Institute’s Agile Alliance® Membership)
Scrum Institute Accreditations
Scrum Institute Accreditations
The International Scrum Institute certification programs’ chief goal is to be market relevant, consensus-based, support innovation, and provide solutions to global challenges. That means thriving career chances for professionals, and meeting and exceeding demands from businesses and their valuable clients.
For Questions and Clarification:
Contact Person: Yeliz Obergfell, VP Student Experience, (LinkedIn)
Mailing Address: Samstagernstrasse 57, 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
Email Address: yeliz.obergfell@scrum-institute.org
Scrum Institute, Kanban Framework Episode #12
International Scrum Institute, Switzerland
(Registration Number: CHE-138.739.580)
Address: Samstagernstrasse 57, 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
Web: https://www.scrum-institute.org
About International Scrum Institute™
International Scrum Institute, located at the Home of Quality, in Switzerland, is the premier competence development and credentialing organization and certification body for Scrum software development and delivery framework.
Established in 2011, as one of the most experienced Scrum authorities, International Scrum Institute is a public-benefit certification body that provides education and certification services. International Scrum Institute operates under the latest Scrum Guide 2020 Edition, industry-approved international standards, requirements, and proven best practices to empower its clients to create value, develop and deliver great software.
International Scrum Institute has proven its worldwide acceptance and reputation by being the choice of more than 673,700 Scrum Practitioners in 143 Countries. (Read 1000+ Successful User Case Studies) International Scrum Institute maintains integrity and impartiality while taking into account professional and public interest. International Scrum Institute provides objective evidence that a person or an organization operates at the highest and most up-to-date level of ethical, legal, professional, and technical standards of the Scrum framework.
International Scrum Institute certifies a wide range of professionals and organizations, including governmental entities, military forces, commercial businesses, and professional associations. (Scrum Institute LinkedIn Community) International Scrum Institute certification programs are based on recognized national and international compliance standards that ensure domestic and global acceptance.
International Scrum Institute is the leading skill development and certification body for professionals and organizations compliant with the Agile Alliance® corporate membership standards that form a unified system for recognizing competent Scrum organizations worldwide. As a global skill development and certification body, International Scrum Institute is committed to ensuring excellent service standards delivered by those we comply with. International Scrum Institute is proud to be an approved corporate member of Agile Alliance®. (More Info About Scrum Institute’s Agile Alliance® Membership)
Scrum Institute Accreditations
Scrum Institute Accreditations
The International Scrum Institute certification programs’ chief goal is to be market relevant, consensus-based, support innovation, and provide solutions to global challenges. That means thriving career chances for professionals, and meeting and exceeding demands from businesses and their valuable clients.
For Questions and Clarification:
Contact Person: Yeliz Obergfell, VP Student Experience, (LinkedIn)
Mailing Address: Samstagernstrasse 57, 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland
Email Address: yeliz.obergfell@scrum-institute.org
Scrum Institute, Kanban Framework Episode #11
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What Are Key Kanban Practices?
Key Kanban practices introduced in this section are going to guide towards the optimal operations of the Kanban framework. Following six key Kanban practices (core Kanban practices) need to be leveraged to execute the Kanban framework successfully.
Visualize Your Workflow With Kanban: You can analyze, improve, and control your Kanban process by continually measuring it, and making it visible to your entire Kanban team and business stakeholders.
Limit Work In Progress (WIP) With Kanban: Limit the amount of work in progress at every step of your development and delivery processes. Thus, you continuously generate business value in shorter lead times and cycle times.
Make Kanban Policies Explicit: Rules and norms of your Kanban process need to be agreed in consensus, clearly defi ned, and publicized. When all Kanban team members are familiar with explicit principles and policies, and their joint business goals, then they can make decisions to bring your project in the correct direction.
Manage Kanban Workflow: Kanban focuses on managing the work processes to make the Kanban workflow robust, reliable, and fast, rather than focusing on keeping people busy.
Implement Kanban Feedback Loops: Feedback loops to measure outcomes of the Kanban process (macro-level feedback) and its associated steps (micro-level feedback), which lead to deliverables, will provide the required input for continuous improvement.
Improve Kanban Collaboratively, Evolve Kanban Experimentally: The Kanban process suggests a fact-based and collaborative approach in which everyone’s opinion is counted. Kanban team members have room to experiment, make mistakes, assess, and learn from them. They will excel in their process, and finally their business outcomes.
Visualize Your Workflow With Kanban
Let’s talk about the significance of visual components in our lives. Human beings love visual elements. Our brains capture more information from one single picture than multiple pages of text. Furthermore, we can process visual elements far faster than words.
30% of our brain neurons participate in the task of visual perception. In contrast, only 8% of brain neurons are active for hearing, and 3% of them are functioning for our touching sense.
Furthermore, when we look at visual components, our brains are able to process numerous pieces of information concurrently. Our brains can process visual elements around 60,000 times faster than it processes textual elements.
Visual data such as images, graphics, illustrations, infographics are a significant relief for our brain in information overload of our personal and business lives. The reason behind much faster and efficient visual processing is pretty simple. Threats in the ancient world were visible things, not memorandums, protocols or other documents.
The Kanban framework utilizes the Kanban board to make its workflow visible and transparent.
The way the Kanban board was set should enable proper planning, visualization, delivery of work, the continuous improvement of the workflow, and the individual performance of Kanban team members.
How You Visualize Your Kanban Workflow
Visualization of your workflow and processes can become quite a daunting task. That is especially true if your organization used to tolerate intransparent work among different silos of matrix organizational structure so far.
Some people can be quickly frustrated by the number of activities that goes into building your product or service. They may think that it’s not very easy to visualize their workflows in the first place, so they give up. Doing the work, but not being able to visualize it. Go and figure…
Nonetheless, the following four steps will help you visualize your workflow and build your first Kanban board.
Step 1: Identify the scope of your process you would like to visualize.
Step 2: List the steps that get into your process, which creates outcomes such as products and services.
Step 3: Transform steps of your process into lanes of your Kanban board.
Step 4: Get back to work, experiment with, visualize and improve your Kanban workflow.
During this process, bear in mind that your visualization should cover the following items:
Acceptance Criteria of business demands coming from the upstream work center before they can be taken into the Kanban workflow.
Explicit policies which are similar to Definition of Done’s (DoD). These will guide the Kanban team while their works flow from the left side to the right side of their Kanban board throughout various steps of development and delivery phase.
Explicit policies to limit Work In Progress (WIP)
Definition of Done (DoD) of Kanban team’s deliverables before they can be dispatched to the down-stream work center.
Scrum Institute, Kanban Framework Episode #10
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What Are Key Metrics To Manage A Kanban Workflow?
You can only improve what you are focusing on. Key Kanban metrics you choose to assess the performance of your Kanban workflow are not an exception to this critical rule.
It is essential that you know the key Kanban metrics to manage your Kanban workflow. So you can enhance the business throughput and reduce the wastes of your Kanban team in this process.
Here are some key Kanban metrics you should be continuously monitoring as part of your initiative to improve your Kanban workflow:
Team Throughput: The number of Kanban cards the Kanban team delivers in their Kanban workflow in a given unit time interval.
Work In Progress (WIP): The number of Kanban cards in work in progress state at different stages of development and delivery process (Kanban workflow).
Lead Time: The amount of time a Kanban card spends in Kanban workflow from the moment business stakeholders request it until it is successfully delivered.
Cycle Time: The amount of time a Kanban card spends in Kanban workflow from the moment the Kanban team starts working on it until the Kanban team finishes its tasks for the given card.
Cycle Time, Work In Progress (WIP), Team Throughput are interrelated by Little’s Law.
Little’s Law states that:
Cycle Time = Work In Progress (WIP) / Team Throughput
Little’s Law guides us to properly administer, set client expectations, and continuously improve the Kanban workflow.
Little’s Law shows the correlation between the three key Kanban workflow metrics. Changing one of these metrics will have an impact on the other two metrics.
For instance: To accomplish a reduction in cycle time, Work in Progress (WIP) must decrease, or the Team Throughput must increase.
Work Item Age:The amount of time a Kanban card in work in progress state spends in the Kanban workfl ow from the moment the Kanban team starts working it until the moment of measurement.
Problems (Impediments): The number of Kanban cards in the Kanban workflow that cannot be processed or delivered due to blocking dependencies, planning, or all other types of errors.
The excellent point about Kanban metrics is that you can determine the length of your feedback loop, based on how frequently you want to analyze your metrics and make changes in your Kanban workflow.
A long feedback loop indicates that your process improvement will be slow. A short feedback loop suggests that your process may not have sufficient time to stabilize between each change.
The length of the feedback loop in which you observe your metrics is one of the items you can experiment too.