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Chris Thomas

Agilist

With a focus on people and performance, Chris is dedicated to empowering teams to harness the power of Agile practices, especially Kanban and flow, to deliver meaningful value in hardware and software projects. As a ProKanban Trainer, he provides both classroom-based training and practical, on-site support to help teams successfully adopt Kanban and enhance their ability to deliver value.  His dynamic training sessions bring Kanban principles to life, enabling teams to optimize flow, reduce bottlenecks, and improve delivery in a way that drives business success.

Kanban Practices Brought to Life

13.30-14.15 The Shirley Room (workshop) - together with Matt Evans

Abstract

Dive into the practical application of Kanban principles with this hands-on workshop that provides an experiential environment that brings many of the common practices to life that you can take back to try out with your people. These techniques and approaches are tried, tested, and used, brought to you by two day-to-day practitioners and certified Kanban Trainers. Designed by practicing Kanban enthusiasts for Kanban enthusiasts and practitioners alike, this session moves beyond the basics and immerses you in the “why” of key Kanban practices giving you the opportunity for you to explore and take these approaches back to your organisations.

Through interactive and experiential exercises and activities, you’ll gain first-hand experience with techniques to bring to life:

  • The importance of explicit policies
  • The Impact of managing work in progress limits on flow
  • Why we manage aging work and what happens when we don’t
  • Managing flow and what happens when we don’t focus on blocked work 
  • Why we avoid work pile ups
  • The power of effective feedback loops
  • Improving collaboratively to evolve delivery

 

Key Takeaways

  • Hands-on experience with essential Kanban practices
  • Actionable practices to implement Kanban within your team
  • Increased understanding of the benefits of Kanban
  • A renewed enthusiasm for leveraging Kanban to its full potential