Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)

Improving Flow for Scrum Teams

Always wanted to know how to use the Kanban principles and practices to optimize the flow of your Scrum team? How to use several Kanban metrics to measure flow?

Professional Scrum with KanbanTM (PSK) is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work. Through theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises, participants will understand the importance of transparency and flow as it pertains to the Scrum framework.

Scrum is the defacto standard for how Agile teams work.  Scrum exists only in its entirety and functions well as a container for other techniques and practices.  Scrum Teams keep improving how they work, based on what they learn by inspecting and adapting on an ongoing basis.

What You Will Learn

Students will learn how their Scrum Teams can introduce complementary practises from Kanban while continuing the way they are already working with Scrum, all without changing Scrum. In this class, students will:

• Gain a clear understanding of how flow works within the context of Scrum.
• Be introduced to Kanban practices that Scrum Teams can adapt to help improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
• Understand how to effectively use appropriate Kanban practices without changing Scrum.
• Learn a practical approach to improving transparency and visibility for their work.
• Get introduced with useful metrics to get more insight on flow. 

Subject Areas

• Dispelling Common Myths

• Understanding Professional Scrum

• Kanban Theory, Principles and Practices

• Kanban in Practice

• Scrum with Kanban

• Agile Metrics

Who Should Attend

Professional Scrum with Kanban is appropriate for practitioners who are looking for additional tools to improve their Scrum teams.

Professional Scrum with Kanban Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum with Kanban course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum with Kanban I (PSK I) assessment. 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. 

What Is Included

• One free attempt at the PSK I assessment (does not expire) - a $150 value. If you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PSK I certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85% you will be given a 2nd attempt at no cost
• PDF file of all material used
• Personal classroom page accessible to participants only
• Access to our Slack community, including quarterly Scrum Facilitator Huddle, Q&A, interaction with other community members, job opportunities and more

About the trainers

Chee Hong Hsia

Chee Hong is one of the eight scrum.org certified trainer in the world who is allowed to teach all the scrum.org courses. He has been heavily involved with Scrum since 2006. His experience comes from working with numerous organizations in Europe and Asia where he helps and coaches scrum teams, middle management and C-level executives in the art of servant leadership, empirical thinking, bottom-up intelligence, the power of self-organization, evidence-based management and validate-learning. His mission is to improve the profession of product delivery and coaching organizations in their Agile transformation journey. To do this, he uses Scrum in combination with Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming practices while respecting the underlying Agile values, and principles.

As a Professional Scrum Trainer, he combines his two passion: Scrum & travelling. He travels around the world to meet and teach Scrum. During his travels, he facilitates professionals on a journey of discovering the underlying values and principles behind Scrum and challenge students in re-imagining the true potential of Scrum. 

Jasper Alblas

As a Professional Scrum Trainer and agile enthusiast, Jasper loves it when a plan comes together, goals are achieved and great products and services are brought to the customer. 

As a Scrum Master and trainer he serves teams and organizations in their change process: teaching, mentoring and coaching them in understanding the power of the Scrum framework that helps them enable change in the organization and in people’s lives, delivering great products for (happy) customers as a result.

Language

To allow as many people as possible to connect with us during this course, the course language is English by default. If you are Dutch and struggle with English, feel free to reach out and we'll see how we can accommodate your learning. In case the whole class speaks Dutch, we will provide the training in Dutch.

Virtual Class

VENUE

Due to COVID-19, we've converted all our classes into virtual classes. For this class, we'll be using Zoom in combination with Mural to give you the best possible experience.
If you have any questions with regards to the course, feel free to contact us.