Opleiding: Kanban Essentials Professional Certificate (KEPC™) (KEPC)

Kanban is a technique used to give work instructions to customers through cards. This cards are made as per each customer requirement with the goal of controlling the progress and be able to have a...

Introduction:


- Lean manufacturing
- Lean
- Lean principles
- Agile
- JIT
- Kaizen
- Lean thinking
- Scrum
- Waterfall vs agile
- Kanban (Development)
- Bad reasons to choose Kanban
History:


- Developed by Toyota in the 1940´s
- Designed to match inventory to demand, not supply
- Relies in improved communication
- Generates less quality failure
- Increase production
- History
- 1962 to 2001
- Toyota´s six rules
- Kanban
- The core practices of Kanban
Five main properties of Kanban


- Manage the workflow
- Limit the work underway
- Visualize the workflow
- Define the process
- Improve as a team
Theory of restrictions


- Constrains exist by nature in any system
- Identifying constrains can improve efficiency
- Exploiting constraints can improve efficiency
- All other decisions hinge upon constraint decisions
- Loop
What is Kanban?


- A scheduling system that allows for just in time delivery
- An inventory control system
- A way to improve productivity in an organization
- A system to use in many frameworks
Value flow map


- Identify where you start
- Identify production requirements (finished product)
- Define the steps in between
- Value stream maps change by nature
Imple...

- Work Item types
- Card walls
- Pull and push
- Workflow
- WIP limits (Limit work in progress)
- Queues and buffers
- Cadences
- Bottlenecks
- Issues and blocked items.

This certification is appropriate for anyone who is interested in becoming a Kanban professional.