Online Kanban Bootcamps

Realistically, you should reserve a minimum of 2h every week for the scheduled sessions, one hour for watching the training videos and an additional 4-8 hours for homework and working with your team. This brings your total time investment to between 7 and 11 hours per week.

This may sound like a lot … but only until you remind yourself of how much more time and effort you would have had to spend if you wanted to do this on your own.

We know that there are many Kanban tools and options available.

Unfortunately we cannot cater for every need and, since Kanbanize is considered one of the leading Kanban tools available, it just makes sense for us to focus on the tool we love and ensure we get maximum value for everybody.

Also, the real value of Kanban, in our opinion, is realised when multiple team boards are brought together at a higher level for cross-team coordination. Kanbanize absolutely shines in this.

Not necessarily, but you do need to be in a position where you can actively influence the implementation of Kanban in one or more teams.

Business leaders have this authority by default.

If you are not a leader, you should at least consider yourself to be an "agent of change". If you are continuously looking for ways to do things better you may in fact be the ideal person to attend a Kanban Bootcamp.

Absolutely! The more people at your business who understand the Kanban basics, the higher your chances are for leading your organisation on a successful Kanban journey.

Just keep in mind that, at a minimum, your colleagues need to understand that they will have to actively engage with the material, submit their own homework and be able to have a discussion about the work done during the online group-work sections.

Of course, your team will love you and your fellow leaders will ask for your assistance with their Kanban implementations

But this is probably not what you were asking.

Yes, if you fully attend all sessions and do all the homework assignments you will get a Xuviate Kanban Bootcamp Certificate of Completion.

P.S. Completing this Bootcamp will not give you a certification recognised by Kanban University, the de-facto leader in awarding recognised Kanban credentials. If you are more interested in adding another training to your CV than to get support during an actual Kanban implementation, we would recommend you rather do some KMP training.

You don't have to, but you might get a lot of value from attending! 

While the material itself is heavily aligned with the KMP I, and to an extent even the KMP II official training, our focus is less on the theory itself and much more on its real-world, practical application.

So, if you feel you have enough practice applying the theory, then you will probable be better served by enquiring about our Kanban Accelerator and Coaching services (click here to book a free chat with us).

If, on the other hand, the theory is already a bit vague or you lack practical implementation experience, then the Bootcamp will serve the dual purpose of not only refreshing this knowledge but giving you an opportunity to learn by doing. Which, of course, is invaluable!

This could be a problem as we really want you to participate in full and ideally also share your team's progress and challenges with your Bootcamp cohort.

In our experience, however, confidentiality is usually not a major challenge as there should be very little that should be confidential about the actual process of implementing Kanban in your team. (We have even had quite a few attendees working on defence contracts in prior Bootcamps.)

As long as you make sure that your Kanban work items are non-descriptive or obfuscated, you should even be able to share a screenshot of your Kanban board setup.

In the end it doesn`t really matter from which business function you are because the Kanban principles and practices stay the same.

Having said this, most leaders we work with come from more back-end business functions such as IT, Engineering, Project Management, Portfolio Management, Marketing, HR, Sales and Finance as opposed to more customer-facing business units.

Apart from the fact that customer-facing business units often still don't know how much they could benefit from using Kanban, they often deal with a lot more uncertainty.

To deal with this uncertainty, tools such as Lean Startup and Design Thinking have been developed but unfortunately we do not have enough time to include them in the Bootcamps.

Due to our international audience our next Bootcamp will again be delivered exclusively in English. We will gauge the interest for a parallel, German-only offering and could have something up and running soon since both, Mathias and Mark, our main facilitators, are native German-speakers.