KPPM Outcome-Driven Practitioner

Overview

As a certified Kanban Project, Program, and Portfolio Management (KPPM) Customer-Focused Practitioner, you are already familiar with the core principles, practices and techniques needed to work effectively as a Kanban Practitioner on a customer level within Project, Program and Portfolio Management. You have a a clear understanding of how KPPM serves as a customer within an organisation evolutionary model.

The next step in your KPPM journey is distinguishing yourself as a more experienced KPPM Profession by obtaining the Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management - Outcome-Driven Certification and learning the next-level skills and techniques necessary to apply KPPM at a program level.

Benefits

• Advance your career with a globally recognised Kanban certification.

• Apply Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management at a program-level

• Driving program-level outcomes

• Become a more knowledge Kanban practitioner by deepening your understanding Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management as an organisational evolutionary model

• Learn to facilitate better dialogue and increase engagement within your teams and customers

• Gain access to a network of Kanban practitioners and experts for ongoing support and collaboration

Learning Outcomes

• Scope

  • Deliver program-level outcomes

• Cultural Values

  • Demonstrate agreement

  • Demonstrate balance

  • Demonstrate clarity of purpose

  • Demonstrate customer service

  • Demonstrate experimental learning

  • Demonstrate leadership at all level

  • Demonstrate shared understanding

  • Demonstrate short-term results

  • Demonstrate unity and alignment

• Visualise

  • Visualise upstream and downstream buffers and WIP limits

  • Visualise upstream and downstream work, including discarded options, cancelled work and failure demand

  • Visualise classes of services, SLEs, SLAs and other important conditions to address risk of delay and extra costs

  • Visualise stakeholders involvement

  • Visualise triage criteria and program work management policies

  • Visualise program status and project dependencies information on a program board

  • Visualise program-portfolio relationships for a full top-down and bottom-up traceability

  • Visualise risk and risk mitigation actions

• Implement Feedback Loops

  • Conduct Program Downstream Review

  • Conduct Product Upstream Review

  • Conduct Program status

  • Conduct Performance Improvement Review

• Make Policies Explicit

  • Define WIP limits for upstream and downstream process phases

  • Define policies for selecting upstream options for development downstream

  • Define policies for managing discarded and cancelled work and failure demand

  • Define classes of service based on cost of delay

  • Define SLEs and SLAs

  • Define triage plus project starting and closing policies

  • Define WIP limits at program level

  • Define outcome-related metrics

• Manage Flow

  • Use explicit buffers to smooth flow

  • Balance upstream and downstream flow

  • Manage and report discarded and cancelled work and failure demand

  • Manage stakeholder involvement

  • Select projects to start by applying triage discipline

  • Use classes of service to ensure flexible and cost-effective resource utilisation

  • Use Little's Law and CFD to achieve a predictable and sustainable flow

  • Resolve bottlenecks

  • Manage resource utilisation for fast and flexible delivery

  • Manage project and program risk proactively

  • Manage projects and programs using outcome-related metrics

  • Create and use a dashboard of project and program performance indicators

  • Manage operating expenses and inventory to improve economic results

  • Use flow efficiency to gradually reduce buffers and speed up flow

• Improve & Evolve

  • Analyse discarded and cancelled project work data as well as failure demand

  • Analyse process performance and define improvement actions

  • Define and run experiments to achieve cost-effective and low-risk outcome improvement

What is the Program Schedule?

People want to know apply Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management at a program level but do not have the experience, skills and time to spend 16 hours straight (or more!) in a classroom. If that's your situation, this rolling mentoring program could be for you. You can join anytime and gain certification as needed as it is rolling.

The certification program can be completed in as little as 4 weeks or up to 6 months—you decide, working at your own sustainable pace. You're in control!

By being empowered to learn in your way and during your work as a Kanban practitioner, you can enjoy the freedom of getting certified when it's convenient and works for you.

When do we meet?

We meet every two weeks on Wednesdays between 5 pm and 6 pm UK time. Between sessions, the group uses online chat to stay focused and often arranges additional sessions with each other to accelerate their certification.

Learn by Doing!

Our program focuses on experiential learning, allowing you to apply new techniques and strategies directly in your work environment.

Regular mentoring sessions with experienced industry experts provide actionable insights, ensuring you gain practical, real-world knowledge.

All our educators coach in the field more than they train. We are on the journey with you.

Validation

During your first mentoring session, we will discuss the required self-learning log, review expectations and agree on what outcomes you desire from gaining the certification.

You can then attend a combination of community events, peer events, workshops, conferences, and mentoring sessions while working individually to complete the validation log (a brief record of your learnings). We will provide the template log (small file) for you.

Once the self-learning log is complete and checked by a peer, we will spend some time with you, reflecting on the difference the program has made to you. We will do this by reflecting on the updated agile coaching growth wheel and the agreed outcomes.

You MUST attend at least FOUR mentoring sessions and ONE  1-to-1 coaching session to validate your competency against the program learning objectives.

Is This Certification Right For You?

This certification is suitable for professionals across all industries who want to improve service delivery and deliver more often with higher quality for organisations operating in a project, program. Also, for people want to know apply Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management at a program level but do not have the experience, skills and time to spend 16 hours straight (or more!) in a classroom. This certification is relevant to everyone involved in project, program and portfolio management including:

• Project Managers

• Program Managers

• Portfolio Managers

• Senior Managers

• Project team members

• Developers

• Scrum Masters

• Flow Managers

• Delivery Managers

• Demand Managers

• Product Owners

• Consultants and Agile / Kanban coaches

• Entrepreneurs

• HR, People, Learning and Development departments

Pre-Requisites

• KPPM Customer-Focused Certification

  
  

Completion Requirement

• Completed all learning objectives for KPPM Outcome-Focused Certification

• Have at least 6 months of applying Kanban at program level

• Attended 4 mentoring sessions

• Attended 1 1-to-1 coaching session

• Passed final review session

What Will You Receive?

• GET CERTIFIED!

  • Earn your credentials in Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management

• STAY SHARP!

  • Attend professional Kanban workshops and seminars

• SAVE MONEY!

  • The certification includes 1 free coaching session, saving you over £200. Plus, our rolling mentorship format means you can grow at your pace without taking costly time off work or travel.

• COMMUNITY!

  • Join the FREE ITyDATA Slack Channel and Meetup for ongoing support.