FLOW AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY • PRIVATE • ONSITE • LIVE VIRTUAL
Kanban Training for Boston Agile Teams
Help teams visualize work, control work in progress, reduce bottlenecks, and build a sustainable system for continuous delivery and improvement.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
Two days of practical workflow design and improvement
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: Private onsite or live virtual
Format: Instruction, workflow design, exercises, and implementation planning
Best for: Teams managing continuous, service, support, or mixed demand
2 Days
Flow focused
Private Kanban Training
Your delivery system
Onsite or Virtual
Flexible delivery
Since 2010
Established in Boston
FROM BATCHES TO FLOW
The Work Does Not Always Fit Neatly Into a Sprint
Scrum works well for many product-development environments, but service, support, maintenance, operational, and demand-driven work may not fit cleanly into fixed-length Sprints. Kanban provides a practical system for managing flow.
Participants learn to visualize the current process, limit work in progress, use pull, measure flow, and evolve the system through small evidence-based improvements.
01 — VISUALIZE
Make the Real Workflow Visible
Map how work actually moves, identify work-item types and states, and make entry, exit, and pull policies explicit.
02 — CONTROL FLOW
Manage WIP and Bottlenecks
Set useful work-in-progress limits, expose constraints and blocked work, and balance demand with available capacity.
03 — EVOLVE
Improve the System With Evidence
Use cycle time, throughput, aging work, feedback, and experiments to improve without a disruptive redesign.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For Teams and Leaders Responsible for Managing Flow
Bring together the people who receive demand, prioritize work, perform delivery, manage dependencies, or improve the system around the team.
Development and Product Teams
Use Kanban within an existing Agile environment or as a focused improvement approach.
Service, Support, and Maintenance Teams
Manage continuous and unpredictable demand without forcing every work item into a Sprint.
Functional and Delivery Managers
Balance demand, capacity, service expectations, sustainable pace, and organizational priorities.
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
Use flow practices and metrics to complement Scrum and strengthen continuous improvement.
Project and Program Managers
Improve visibility across dependencies, blocked work, risk, delivery timing, and competing priorities.
Portfolio and Operations Leaders
Apply Kanban concepts above the team level to manage demand, investment, service, and flow across systems.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
Build a Kanban System That Makes Improvement Practical
01
Visualize and Control Flow
Map the real workflow, make operating policies explicit, and design a board that supports pull-based delivery.
02
Manage WIP and Bottlenecks
Set effective WIP limits, expose constraints, reduce delay, and improve the movement of valuable work.
03
Evolve the Delivery System
Use flow metrics, feedback cadences, and small experiments to improve the current system over time.
TWO-DAY KANBAN COURSE
From a Board With Cards to a Complete Flow System
The course combines concise instruction, practical exercises, workflow design, measurement, and facilitated discussion around the work your organization performs.
01 — KANBAN FOUNDATIONS
Kanban and Lean Foundations
- Lean origins and the Kanban method
- Kanban principles and core practices
- Kanban, Scrum, and continuous delivery
- Evolutionary change within the current system
02 — VISUALIZE THE WORK
Visualize the Workflow
- Map how work actually moves from request to completion
- Identify work-item types and meaningful workflow states
- Design a board that reflects the delivery system
- Make entry, exit, pull, and completion policies explicit
03 — MANAGE WIP AND FLOW
Manage Work in Progress and Flow
- Set WIP limits at the points where they will help
- Use pull rather than push scheduling
- Identify bottlenecks, aging work, blocked work, and delay
- Balance demand, capacity, service expectations, and sustainable pace
04 — MEASURE AND IMPROVE
Measure, Improve, and Scale the System
- Lead time, cycle time, throughput, and aging work
- Cumulative flow, flow distribution, and service reviews
- Use data to select useful improvement experiments
- Apply Kanban across teams, projects, programs, and portfolios
BUILT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Design the System Around Your Actual Workflow
Kanban is most useful when it reflects reality. Private delivery allows the team to examine its actual demand, workflow, policies, constraints, measures, and service expectations.
Your Workflow
Map the current process and design a Kanban system that reflects how work truly moves through your organization.
Your Constraints
Identify excessive WIP, bottlenecks, dependencies, delays, unclear policies, and capacity pressures.
Your Implementation Plan
Leave with an initial board or system design and focused actions for improving flow in your environment.
TAKE THE LEARNING BACK TO WORK
Continue Designing and Improving the System
INCLUDED
Workflow and Metrics Reference
Participants receive a practical reference covering Kanban concepts, workflow design, policies, WIP limits, flow metrics, feedback, and implementation guidance.
IMPLEMENTATION OUTCOME
An Initial Kanban Implementation Plan
Participants leave with a clearer view of the current delivery system, an initial Kanban design, and priority actions for reducing bottlenecks and improving flow.
2010
ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON
CAPE Project Management, Inc.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Agile Training Grounded in Real Delivery
Boston Agile Training is the Agile training practice of Cape Project Management, Inc. Dan Tousignant brings decades of experience across project management, product delivery, Agile implementation, team development, requirements, engineering practices, and organizational change.
The goal is not to promote a framework for its own sake. It is to help your people make better decisions and improve how work gets delivered.
PRIVATE ONSITE & LIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING
Improve Flow Across Your Agile Teams
Tell us about your teams, work types, current workflow, and the delivery challenges you want the Kanban course to address.