Essentials of Kanban and Cynefin – Two-Day Course

This is an in-house training course. For further information and pricing contact [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817.

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Day One – Essential Kanban

Overview

Kanban is a rich approach to evolutionary change management that will help your organisation and
teams understand and manage their work.
This course is for managers, developers and teams wanting to implement and utilise the power of the Kanban method. The course makes use of practical examples in addition to exercises to help develop an actual Kanban system for your own purposes.

Agenda

Session One What is Kanban?

Session Two Kanban Principles

Session Three Getting Started

Session Four Understanding your Workflow

Session Five Mapping the Value Stream

Session Six Making Improvements

Session Seven Variability, Failure Demand & Scaling

Close

Day Two Essential Cynefin

Overview

The Cynefin framework helps us make sense of situations so that we can more effectively guide our decision-making and management approaches. The framework and methods covered in this course can be applied to a range of operational challenges by leaders and other members of your organisation.
Essential Cynefin introduces participants to the application of the framework and its tools and methods and is a “must do” learning opportunity for those leading and working in complex environments.

Agenda

Session One Explore the challenges of managing, leading and taking action in complex environments

Session Two Learn new approaches to respond to uncertainty and complexity

Session Three Enhance your ability to contextualise issues and respond appropriately

Session Four Understand constraints and how we can manage them to influence change

Session Five Experience core Cynefin methods and tools to apply in thinking, decision-making and leadership

Session Six Understand the basics of a complexity-appropriate approach to strategy, forecasting and decision making

Close

Trainer – Richard Gunson

Richard’s background in the armed forces, education, therapeutic practice, and importantly, service development, bring a broad range of expertise and skills in both the public and private sectors with specialisation in developing and delivering the strategies and environment for sustainable change.
Working with organisations of all sizes including public services, global pharmaceutical, national police forces, to the creative arts, Richard is able to help navigate the complex environments influencing decision making and develop appropriate interventions and support that will create agility with a focus on value for the user.
Aligning leadership right through to executable tasks with training and embedding, on the ground, the use of iterative agile methods and tried and tested communications, he enables trust and delegated decision making across organisations.

This is an in-house training course. For further information and pricing contact [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817.

Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services.