Kanban for Software Project Management

Description

Kanban is a popular framework used to implement Agile and DevOps software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work. Work items are represented visually on a Kanban board, allowing team members to see the state of every piece of work at any time. A Kanban board is an Agile project management tool designed to help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency (or flow). It can help both Agile and DevOps teams establish order in their daily work. Kanban boards use cards, columns, and continuous improvement to help technology and service teams commit to the right amount of work, and get it done! This course will help you explore how working on an Agile project using Kanban has benefits for your development team, your end-users, and your organization as a whole. We will identify various process flow-related issues including too much work-in-progress, underutilization of resources, lengthy tasks, unequal-sized tasks, and so on, using simple and easy-to-understand demonstrations on the Kanban board. We will not only identify these inefficiencies but also solve them by continuously improving the process flow using the Kanban board. All resources and code files are placed here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Kanban-for-Software-Project-Management

What You Will Learn

Get an understanding of Kanban and Kanban board
Learn how to specify rules in Kanban
Learn the difference between product backlog and product roadmap
Cover the advantages and disadvantages of Agile
Understand and create burndown charts
Understand and create user stories, themes, and epic

Audience

This course is ideal for software developers, project managers, software leadership, or anyone that would have an interest and gain benefit from running an Agile project and delivering maximum value early to your customers.

No prior experience is necessary to take this course. So, even if you don't know what Kanban is and the various principles and concepts under Kanban and Agile project management, do not worry.

Approach

This course assumes zero prior knowledge about Kanban or Agile while helping you start right at the beginning and taking you through important concepts before diving into more advanced ones. It has clear explanations and provides resources that will be helpful to anyone interested to know more about Kanban and to start applying its various practices on the job.

Key Features

Get into the shoes of a Scrum team and understand their role * Explore how Kanban is different from Scrum and extreme programming * Find various inefficiencies in your process using the Kanban board

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Kanban-for-Software-Project-Management

About the Author

Monika Rawat

Monika Rawat has over four years of experience in the financial industry. She has worked with American Express as a product manager with an interest in product management and business strategy. She holds a software engineering and MBA degree. Monika has founded GenMan Solutions, which is a management and technology-based education company, which aims at providing in-demand and essential business-related courses for students and professionals, enabling them to accelerate their careers, transform into a leadership role, and internalize managerial thinking.

Course Outline

1. Welcome to the Course!

2. Introduction to Kanban and Kanban Board

3. Process Improvement: Identifying Inefficiencies/Issues

4. Kanban Practices

5. Key Agile Concepts