Certified Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK)
- Location: Live Online
- Duration: 1day
- Certification Fee Included
- Level: Microcredential
- Trainer-led
- 8 SEUs / 8 PDUs
The course helps you identify and address challenges in Scrum such as variability, dependencies, delays, and resistance to change by applying Kanban principles, practices, and metrics to improve flow, productivity, and throughput.
You’ll gain the confidence to design and test hypothesis-driven, evolutionary changes that lean up processes and enable effective Kanban-to-Scrum adoption across teams and the wider organisation.
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to:
- Identify and analyse challenges in your Scrum implementation, including dependencies, delays, and organisational resistance to change, and prepare effective solutions to address them
- Reduce variability and improve flow by developing, testing, and applying Kanban-based solutions that increase productivity and throughput
- Apply Kanban principles and practices within Scrum, using managed evolutionary change to lean up processes without disrupting teams
- Use metrics effectively, knowing when and how to apply Kanban metrics to understand, manage, and improve your system
- Design and execute hypothesis-driven change with confidence, applying Kanban to Scrum in a knowledgeable and practical way
Why Beliminal?
Our expert trainers bring deep insight into the changing world of work and a passion for helping people and organisations grow.
Using accelerated learning techniques, our courses make learning more engaging, effective, and long-lasting.
Designed specifically for virtual delivery, our online courses use proven best practices to create an interactive and compelling learning experience.
Our course also offers:
- Satisfaction Guarantee
- Shorter days enhance your learning experience and increase your knowledge retention
- Smaller class size to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
- Free post course coaching session to reflect on your practice
- Highly respected Kanban trainer with decades of real-world experience and a 5-star Google rating
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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.
We use brain friendly, science based, accelerated learning techniques to help you really learn and increase your knowledge retention.
Course topics
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
Why this course?
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.
What you'll come away with
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
What the course includes
- 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
- 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)
What about exams and certifications?
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.
Who is this course suitable for?
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.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
There are no prerequisites for the course, however students are expected to complete the required pre-course reading.
