Azure DevOps

Practicing Kanban Using Azure Boards

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Expert Facilitation

The course is led by seasoned practitioners who bring their real-world experience and provide insights into practical applications of agile, lean, and DevOps.

Immersive Learning

This course employs a blend of lectures, case studies, group discussions, and interactive exercises to establish a dynamic learning environment.

Course Overview

All software development teams have a desire to increase their flow and throughput. With the powerful combination of Kanban and Azure Boards, they can do just that. This one day course will introduce Kanban and demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards to effectively practice Kanban, achieve flow, and begin improving throughput and predictability. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common team project, on a common case study.

 

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Learning Experience Options

Our primary method of increasing Azure Boards knowledge is a deliberate developmental experience divided into learning blocks, each with four hours of live virtual classroom training with a qualified trainer-practitioner complemented with presentations and lectures in the form of videos, reading material, and writing activities provided for self-study. Live sessions are delivered online using Microsoft Teams and Mural, with Mighty Networks provides the self-study portal.

Every participant on every option receives:

  • A 30m learning review
  • A 60m one-on-one coaching session

At a minimum, we deliver all of our training in four hour sessions or block of live practitioner-instructor lead experiances, complimented by offline self-paced content. Depending on the training course We can deliver as:

  • Traditional Learning Experience - four intensive consecutive days or four non-consecutive days over two weeks
  • Flipped Learning Experiance - a flipped learning experiance with live classroom sessions as well as offline self-paced learning.
  • Immersive Learning Experiance - an immersive learning experiance with weekly assignements that are debriefed at the next session.
  • Guided Learning Experiance - an guided journey where a trainer-pratitionar cureates and provides feedback on self-paced learnings.
  • Extended Learning Experiance - Traditional, FLipped, or Immersive compimented by additonal integrated workshops, coaching, and consulting as needed.
Please contact us for details.

This course contains several modules, progressively explaining Kanban’s principles and practices and how to use Azure Boards to support them.

  1. INTRODUCTION TO KANBAN
    • Kanban overview
    • Kanban core practices
    • Kanban support in Azure Boards
    • Configuring an Azure DevOps project
    • Managing a product backlog – Hands-on
  2. VISUALIZING THE WORKFLOW
    • Kanboard board overview
    • Kanban board vs. a backlog
    • Kanban board vs. a taskboard
    • Defining the workflow
    • Making policies explicit
    • Definition of “Done”
    • Defining classes of service (swimlanes)
    • Defining task checklists and inline tests
    • Filtering the board
    • Keyboard shortcuts – Hands-on
  3. LIMITING WIP
    • Work in Progress (WIP) overview
    • Visualizing WIP limits
    • Creating a pull system
    • Splitting columns into “doing” and “done”
    • Challenges with limiting WIP
    • Bottlenecks – Hands-on
  4. MANAGING FOR FLOW
    • Flow-based metrics
    • Cycle time vs. lead time
    • Little’s Law
    • Flow-based analytics
    • Cumulative Flow Diagrams
    • Scatterplots
    • ActionableAgile Analytics
    • Monte Carlo simulation
    • Achieving flow and predictability – Hands-on

This course is appropriate for all members of a software development team, especially those who are actively involved with creating and refining a product backlog as well as planning and executing the work. This course will also provide value for individuals outside the development team (managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and other stakeholders) who are interested in establishing and improving flow for their team. Even teams currently practicing Scrum should consider attending this course, as Kanban is a great complementary practice for managing and improving their flow.

For more information, read the Kanban guide for Scrum Teams.

There is no assessment for this workshop.

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£425
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The Alimni discount for this class would bring it down to £360

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Pay a 30% deposit of £155 now, and the rest when you are working.

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Reruns allow you to participate in a class that you have already taken for any reason at a low cost.

Have you participated in this class with us or an equivalent from another vendor? We are intent on enabling your continuous learning so we offer you a Rerun discount of 70% to take it again with our trainers.

The Rerun discount for this class would bring it down to £155. Contact us with proof of participation in a previous class to claim your discount.

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20% Credit per Referral

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Course Designer

This course was designed by Richard Hundhausen, Microsoft’s first Visual Studio ALM/DevOps MVP, Professional Scrum Trainer, and an experienced software developer.

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We have learned from the success and failure of different organisations and their experiences of introducing an agile mindset. We want to help you transition to a world within which you can delight your clients.