Professional Scrum with Kanban

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) will teach you to use Kanban practices within Scrum, such as limiting work in progress and visualization.

Combining Kanban with your Scrum practice doesn’t involve replacing events, accountabilities, or artifacts. It’s about integrating Kanban’s complementary tools to help your Scrum Team achieve better outcomes by improving the flow of work.

The Professional Scrum with Kanban course lets students experience the power of key Kanban concepts, like limiting work in progress. It has an exercise-first approach. Participants experience vital concepts in a way designed to deliver knowledge and insights about applying the concepts in the real world. Participants are encouraged to engage in conversations to deepen their understanding of key Scrum and Kanban concepts.

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Professional Scrum with Kanban
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For years, Scrum has been the most popular Agile framework. But starting in 2022, we saw a remarkable increase in the number of teams using Scrum and Kanban together. So why are Scrum teams increasingly adding Kanban to the mix?

I think it’s because Scrum and Kanban offer the best of both worlds. Scrum offers a framework for people to collaborate to deliver value. It provides just enough structure – but not too much. Teams reduce time spent in meetings and maximize the time spent delivering value.

Kanban practices dramatically affect teams' power to deliver value. When teams limit the number of things they work on, they reduce context switching and deliver value sooner. Since the # 1 reason most organizations switch to Agile is to deliver value sooner, this is really important.

More about Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)

The idea of limiting WIP might sound counterintuitive at first. After all, wouldn't juggling multiple tasks simultaneously lead to faster completion? Wouldn’t ensuring everyone is busy be the best way to deliver value? Surprisingly, the opposite holds true. Multi-tasking is a myth. By limiting the number of active tasks, Scrum teams can create a higher degree of focus. Tasks are completed more quickly, with less time wasted on context-switching.

A team with a limited number of active tasks is better able to focus on completing the tasks in progress. This increases the quality of work and minimizes errors caused by the stress and confusion of a high amount of work in progress.

Mary took into consideration all participants opinions and questions.