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.

Every person who is registered for the Bootcamp will receive a license for the online Kanban Essentials Course (KEC). Watching this material is necessary for completing the course.

In addition, you will get 5 more, non-transferrable KEC licenses for your other team members for each Bootcamp purchase.

In the past, Bootcamp participants have found it difficult to maintain momentum and take their team along on the journey if they don't participate from the start.

This is why we these days recommend that all essential team members are registered for the Bootcamp and participate from day 1.

This way, every week can be used to act on what has been learned and experienced, instead of having to figure out how to convey important insights to non-participants.

It depends on whether they are prepared to bring their other team members as well.

Since the Bootcamp is not just a training course, participants need to be aware that they are expected to develop and implement a real Kanban system. 

If they are just looking for an overview of what Kanban is, you may instead want to send them to our Team Kanban Simulation.

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

Unfortunately we cannot cater for every need and, since Businessmap (formerly 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.

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 closely aligned with the Kanban Systems Design (KSD) course from Kanban University, 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 probably be better served by enquiring about our other services.

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 which business function you come from as long as you are dealing with so-called knowledge work.

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