The Art and Science of Creative Flow

Applying Kanban as a Strategy

Prepares you for

4 x 4-hour sessions

VIRTUAL - LIVE

Nov 14, 15, and 21, 22 2024

12:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET

9:30 am - 1:30 pm PT

6:30 pm - 10:30 pm GMT

Mar 13, 14, and 20, 21 2025

9:00 am - 1:00 pm ET

6:00 am - 10:00 am PT

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT

How often have you heard the advice – “don’t work harder, work smarter”? Did that advice ever come with effective strategies on how?

Now it does!

The Art and Science of Creative Flow, explores just that! Taught by expert guides and practitioners.

By applying Flow, Lean and Agile principles through Kanban you will learn to "work smart" as you optimize the delivery of value and become true artisans of flow in work and life.

Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organization's delivery of customer value. In today's always-on environment, it offers a clear set of practices and metrics that provide just enough structure without getting in the way - keeping everyone aligned and value flowing at a sustainable pace.

In this four-day course, you will learn powerful and effective ways to use Kanban as a strategy to:

Facilitate high performance, creativity, and a sustainable pace in your context.
Optimize individual and team effectiveness, efficiency, practicability, and sustainability.
Recognize and remove barriers that impede flow.
Tap into the joy of 'getting stuff done' while continuously learning and improving.

An emphasis on practical application of concepts through hands-on exercises and simulations will leave you ready to apply your learnings immediately.

As a result of this program, you will be able to:

Create a visual board and define shared expectations to manage your work
Describe the value of work-in-progress (WIP) limits
Capture and interpret key flow metrics and analytics to find improvement opportunities
Explain the impact of flow on effective, efficient, and predictable value delivery
Define, build, operate, and continuously improve a Kanban system
Explain how tooling impacts your implementation

"April and Anjali are true experts and teachers of this content! They relate exercises directly to experiences that help the concepts become real world situations."

Christine B., SDLC Manager

What can you expect?

Successful completion prepares you for:

Program Topics

Creative Flow and Kanban as a Strategy
Kanban theory, principles, and practices
Workflow design and visualization
Applying Kanban to manage Flow actively
Identifying impediments to Flow
Improving a Kanban system
How to get started

What makes this class unique

Understanding the mindset of Flow through Kanban
Applying Kanban as a strategy to improve flow in your work and life
Leveraging systems thinking to understand impediments to flow
Use of qualitative and quantitative feedback to manage and improve flow
In-class practice exam and review

What you can expect

Daily check-in that connects you to the focus of the day
Daily Collaborative Flow Games that simulate real-world experience and activate sticky learning
Discussions of real-world successes and challenges of flow at work and in the wild that take concepts beyond theory
Shenanigans check to confirm understanding and clarify concepts
Asynchronous activities and reflections that extend the learning beyond the classroom

PROFESSIONAL KANBAN I

Prepares you for the Professional Kanban I certification exam from ProKanban

14 SEU

Scrum Alliance Continuing Education Units

14 PDU

Project Management Institute Continuing Education Units

Meet Your Instructors

Anjali Leon

A strategist, trainer, master facilitator, coach, and practitioner specializing in Product Thinking and Creative Collaboration. I infuse my classes with emerging thought leadership and stories from real-life experiences. With me, you can expect a training style that is interactive, immersive, and engaging, and one that will leave you feeling competent, confident, inspired, and energized to put your learning into practice.