“If you are looking to implement Kanban in your organisation this is the perfect course for you”
Sangeetha Balasubramanian
Improve your Scrum by adding the practices and evolutionary change approach from the Kanban Method. Scrum Better with Kanban can help you improve your Scrum through the introduction of proven Kanban practices, principles, and application of evolutionary change management. This course captures the lessons learned from Scrum teams that successfully evolved their way of working by using evolutionary change found in the Kanban Method. This hands-on training will ensure that you walk away with a proven approach to introducing changes that will deliver results for your team and organisation and it will expand your horizons and equip you with a solid understanding of how to apply Kanban and Scrum together and practical ways to apply it, plus it will enhance your career prospects as a Scrum Master or Kanban Flow Manager and set you apart from the crowd.
Our course is led by a world-class Accredited Kanban Trainer and Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer® who blends real-world expertise with interactive exercises to give you the confidence to work with a Scrum team in the real world and get the best results.
Click here to schedule a 15 minute call with trainer Tom Reynolds before the course. Iron out any questions or concerns you might have about the training, ensuring you’re fully prepared and confident to participate.
Certified Scrum Better with Kanban – SBK Course Availability
Payment can be made securely via Debit/Credit card, Bank Transfer/Invoice, PayPal including installments, and Klarna (Select Debit/Credit Card at checkout).
The training runs from 0900-1700 UK time.
Price is £495 plus VAT. Please note that if you are booking from outside of the UK, VAT is not applicable; please contact us to arrange your non-VAT booking.
This training course is also offered as a private course to teams and organisations and can be run on-site in person or in a live on-line setting.
What our students say
“With the course led by Tom Reynolds, a trainer with over 30 years of IT experience and an energetic and empathetic coaching style, I came away with a step-by-step methodology for designing a Kanban system that actually fits our specific organisational context.”
Jacquelene Wolmarans
“Exceptional experience and depth of knowledge. Really brought relevant examples to our situation and context”
Hass Jishi
“Engaging, informative and an excellent starter to using Kanban to help achieve better delivery “
Adam Parsons
“Tom is very engaging and clear, thoroughly enjoyed the training from start to finish”
Claire Barks
“Superbly organised and delivered course, with a very experienced trainer guiding you through the sessions. The organisation of the pre-course materials was detailed and complete.”
Phillip Ingham
“This course has been a real eye opener and I’m now keen to see how many of my work processes can be managed better using the techniques I’ve learned”
Tanya Phillips
“Great course, loved the balance between theory and practical”
Jeff Bannister
“Thank you Tom, the training was very insightful and engaging. Plus your skill and experience is impressive, you brought real authenticity”
Mark White
“The small, intimate team made discussions open and safe and Tom was brilliant at answering every question at each stage.”
Helen Gabler
“Highly engaging course for a variety of skillsets”
Dom Barnett
“Awesome training!! A lot to take away”
Stuti Jindal
“Tom is a great coach who teaches agile in an engaging and interactive way. I would recommend this course to anyone, whether they have agile knowledge or not”
Ellie McCarey
“I have spent some years working with Kanban but this course really helped my understanding”
Dale Matthews
“Those looking to either refresh their knowledge in Scrum or someone who wants a radical change in career. This course will change your life. It is focused, practical, open and a safe space to ask questions.”
Brett Sweet
“A very energetic and enthusiastic Kanban practitioner and trainer. Uses experience to help fortify how Kanban can be used in the real world”
Andy Wheeldon
“Fun course, lots of games, very informative”
Dom Barnett
“Highly professional process from the registration to the wrap up. Great expertise from the trainer.”
Esmeralda García
“This course is jam packed full of excellent discussions, exercises and practical examples. An excellent course”
Jason Nickels
“Tom is a very knowledgeable instructor and really helps disambiguate and clarify topics. Our Kanban process is about to get a lot more sophisticated and informative”
Bren Vaughan
Why choose The Agile Mindset?
Our training has a depth and a power that inspires and changes you. Our trainers are some of the most experienced in the world and have rich insights into the changing world of work and a passion for transforming teams and organisations. They are able to bring your training alive by revealing its true power – helping you unleash your own potential as well as the potential of those you work with.
In addition you benefit from: –
- Delivery of virtual courses that have been designed from the ground up for virtual delivery using best practice tried and tested techniques to provide an engaging and compelling virtual experience
- Maximum class size of 12 delegates for virtual courses to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
- Shorter training days which are vitally important when training in a virtual manner that enhance your learning experience and increase your knowledge retention
- Highly respected and one of the longest serving Kanban Trainers, since 2013, with decades of experience delivering high-quality Kanban training and implementing and coaching Kanban in the real world as well as a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been coaching and working with Scrum since 2007.
Certified Scrum Better with Kanban – SBK Course Details
You’ll get two essential credentials: the Scrum Kanban Practitioner credential from Kanban University and Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential from Scrum Alliance.
What you’ll get:
- The skills to analyze what’s holding back your scrum team and how to resolve those challenges with relevant kanban techniques.
- Tools to deal with variability that slows down delivery.
- Real solutions rooted in kanban’s principles that you can apply immediately.
After attending the Scrum Better with Kanban course, you’ll come away understanding how to apply Kanban to Scrum in real depth. You won’t just know how to use it, you’ll understand how and why it works – and how to apply it highly effectively. In other words, this course will equip you with the knowledge and experience to be a genuinely effective Scrum Master, Scrum team member, or Agile Coach.
You’ll be able to:
- Identify and analyse the challenges in and around your Scrum implementation and how to prepare solutions to address these challenges.
- Identify and develop solutions to the variability that is delaying or slowing down your work
- Develop and test potential solutions to problems that reflect the principles and practices of the Kanban Method
- Lean up your processes using managed evolutionary change techniques
- Increase productivity and throughput
- Address problems around dependencies, delays, acceptance of change across the organisation and within the team
- Know when and how to use metrics and apply Kanban metrics to your system.
- Apply managed evolutionary change to Scrum
- Have the confidence to design and execute hypothesis driven change
- Confidently and knowledgeably apply Kanban to Scrum
- High-quality instruction from a highly experienced trainer with many years of experience in training Scrum and Kanban and, very importantly, implementing Scrum and Kanban in the real world
- Course materials and, for virtual courses, access to our Learning Management System and online content created during the course
- Scrum Alliance Scrum Better with Kanban Micro Credential
- Kanban University Scrum Better with Kanban Certification
- 2 years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance worth $100 with access to exclusive features and content
- Membership of the Kanban University
- Free access to “TAMAI” – our purpose-built AI learning companion for reflecting on agile, Scrum, and Kanban. It supports sense-making, concept clarity, and thinking through practical scenarios, helping you deepen your understanding and continue your learning.
- Free access to the “TAM” Team Probabilistic Forecasting App to help you plan more realistically with your teams and have better stakeholder conversations.
- Access to exclusive resources
- Loyalty discount for future courses
- Loyalty discount for personal/life coaching
- 8 Category B Professional Development Units (PDUs) can be claimed for this course
- 8 Scrum Education Units (SEU’s)
- The Kanban Method
- What is the Kanban Method
- Kanban Practices
- Visualise – Show work and its flow.
- Limit Work in Progress – Stop starting, start finishing!
- Manage Flow – Identify and manage what is preventing work from flowing.
- Make policies explicit – Have agreed policies, visible to everyone involved.
- Establish Feedback loops – At the right cadence to provide guidance.
- Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally – Using the scientific method.
- How we think about our work
- Work Item
- Work Item Type
- Workflow
- Scrum Better with Kanban
- Unplanned work
- Estimation challenges
- Lead time and lead time distributions
- Control/Run charts
- Dependencies
- Discovery
- Dormancy
- Cadences
- Understanding Change
- Three change management principles
- Using evolutionary change – The problem
- Using evolutionary change – Ideas for solutions
This course is for anyone, not only Scrum teams. Whether you’re a project manager, team lead, or individual contributor, Scrum Better with Kanban gives you practical tools to bring more agility into your work. You’ll learn how to boost predictability, increase transparency, sharpen focus, strengthen feedback loops, and reduce risk, no matter your role or team structure.
Ideal learners for this course include:
- Scrum and agile practitioners
- Scrum masters and product owners
- Team leads
- Leaders
- Managers
- Project managers
- Product managers
- Agile coaches
Attending the course as a full team offers a real opportunity for the entire team to experience and learn Kanban together and creates an excellent foundation for them to move forward.
There are no prerequisites for this course, however, students are expected to complete the required pre-course reading.
A small amount of pre-course reading is required.
This course has been accredited by David J Anderson (creator of the Kanban method) and the Kanban University, and the Scrum Alliance. Students taking this course will become Certified Scrum Kanban Practitioners and gain the Scrum Alliance Scrum Better with Kanban Microcredential. There is no exam for this training course.
We’re delighted that you are considering one of our courses and are confident that you’ll find this course rewarding! By joining, you’ll be part of a growing community of learners who have successfully completed the course and are enjoying the benefits. Our 5-star reviews and positive feedback reflect our commitment to delivering top-quality learning experiences.
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