Deploying Value with Kanban
If you are using Agile/Scrum or the basics of Kanban, and are looking for taking a deeper, richer examination at how you can further refine and improve your Kanban practice to deliver even more value to your customers, then this course is for you.
What you'll learn
Learn to enrich your Kanban practice to deliver even more value to your teams. In this course, Deploying Value with Kanban, you will learn the knowledge and skills to help you implement continuous integration and deployment within the context of the Kanban value stream and DevOps. First, you will compare Kanban with Scrum so that you can leverage your Agile/Scrum knowledge to better assimilate new Kanban concepts. Next, you will discover how continuous integration can increase customer value through applying version control, branching and merging, and automated testing. Finally, you will explore how DevOps is the bridge between continuous integration and continuous deployment to enable regular, automatic, production builds. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of how to improve, execute and deliver a higher level, quality Kanban management system.
Table of contents
- Preface & Course Overview 4m
- Module Overview & a Deeper Look 1m
- Creating Backlogs 2m
- Backlog Planning & Work Selection 6m
- Work in Progress (WIP) 5m
- Workflow Constraints 1m
- Bottlenecks 3m
- Blockers 6m
- Buffers 3m
- Handling Unplanned Work 8m
- Using Metrics to Manage Work 0m
- Scrum and Velocity 3m
- Kanban and Cumulative Flow Diagrams 4m
- Point of View & Module Summary 4m
- Overview 1m
- Continuous Integration (CI) 2m
- Areas of Workflow Friction 5m
- The Power of Version Control 3m
- Using VCS with Kanban: Branching & Merging 7m
- Merging "Up" 3m
- Version Control and the Board 4m
- Using CI for Automated Testing 5m
- Reducing Workflow Friction 2m
- Version Control Products & Summary 3m
- Overview 1m
- Complexities of Larger Organizations 5m
- Adapting to Larger Organizations 5m
- The Order of Work 3m
- Estimates and Milestones 3m
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate 4m
- Dealing with Late Dependencies 4m
- Handling "Buggy" Dependencies 5m
- Leveraging Fakes, Stubs, and Mocks 5m
- Point of View & Summary 2m