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Certified KAD Team Whattie™
Summary
The KAD Team Howie™ course provides attendees with the understanding of the role of Howie. The KAD role of Howie is for people on the team that say ‘How’ the work will be done and collaborate to deliver the service.
This course trains team members how to self-organise their service delivery using the KAD Delivery Kanban Board. It provides an interactive learning simulation to practice the KAD continuous learning and problem solving way of thinking so team members have the ability to adapt as more things are learned.
The certificate of completion for the KAD Team Howie™ course is a pre-requisite to collecting the evidence from their on-the-job implementation and then passing the KAD Team Howie™ exam to achieve KAD Team Howie™ Certification.
Duration: 4 Days (At least 2 sequential days of interactive classroom training)
Price
Public Course – Classroom face-to-face
Price: $2,300 + GST per person
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Learning Objectives
To perform the role of a KAD Whattie, participants will:
- Describe the Kanban Accelerated Delivery (KAD) ways of working
- Outline the 5 steps of Continuous Learning using Experiments with Scientific Thinking (CLEST)
- Describe their responsibilities as a KAD Whattie
- Contribute to the regular Daily Kanban Catchup
- Create and improve the KAD Planning Kanban Board
- Use KAD Measurements to lead productivity and quality improvements to the team’s ways of working on the Delivery Kanban Board
Topics Covered
- Introduction to Kanban Accelerated Delivery (KAD) ways of working
- KAD Principles
- KAD Team Fundamentals – Roles, Ingredients, Collaborations
- KAD Whattie Responsibilities
- KAD Ingredient: Team CLEST – Continuous Learning using Experiments with Scientific Thinking
- Iterative experiment using Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
- Team Collaboration 1: Daily Kanban Catchup
- Ingredient: Team KAD Measurements
- Team Collaboration 2: Value Collaboration – Whattie accountability
- Team Collaboration 3: Customer Feedback – Whattie accountability
- Team Collaboration 4: Queue Replenishment – Whattie accountability
- Team Collaboration 5: Continuous Improvement
- Daily Improving the Planning Kanban board
- Setting up the initial KAD Planning Kanban board
What Attendees Get
Registration includes:
- KAD Team Whattie™ workbook handouts including Quick Reference Guides where applicable
- Preparation to take the KAD Team Whattie™ exam
- One-year membership to the KAD portal
- Course certificate of completion. Attendees must attend at least two days of the training and necessary online learning to qualify for the exam.
KAD Ingredients
- Team Planning Kanban Board
- Team KAD Measurement
- Team CLEST
Who Will Benefit?
Persons who will benefit from the KAD Team Whattie™ course:
- Persons that regularly request work from one or more service delivery teams or department; or
- Line managers that juggle the competing priorities the work of a team, unit or area they are accountable for.
In an organisational chart Whatties may or may not be a part of a delivery team.
Job titles that commonly define for clarify What work is required typically include (though not limited to):
- Business Analyst
- Project Manager
- Program Manager
- Product Manager
- Unit/Line Manage
Prerequsites
There are no curriculum prerequisites to attend the KAD Team Whattie™ training.
Fluency in reading and writing English is required.
For portions that can be supplemented with online learning, fast and reliable internet access is required to watch the videos.
Having personally used or seen a kanban board as a tool to visualise work is helpful but definitely not essential. There are graphs used in KAD Measurements for team kanban, however in depth knowledge of statistics is not required.
Accreditation Pathway
To apply for accreditation as KAD Team Whattie™, participants are required to:
- Knowledge – Attend classroom training to obtain a KAD Team Whattie™ Certificate of Completion; then
- Behaviours – Practice applying the knowledge, then have a KAD mentor observe the accurate application of course knowledge through consistency of behaviours on the job to obtain a Certificate of Competency; and then
- Examination – Pass the KAD Team Whattie™ online exam to obtain a Certificate of Certification.
KAD certifications expire twelve months from the date of issue.
Accreditation Kit
Each of the three certificates (Knowledge, Behaviour and Examination) that demonstrate an applicant’s progress along the accreditation pathway are recorded in the KAD portal.
Applicants who have obtained all three KAD Team Howie™ certificates within twelve months receive:
- An Accredited KAD Team Whattie™ Certificate
- An Accredited KAD Team Whattie™ digital badge to promote your achievement
- A one-year membership as a KAD Team Howie™ to the KAD portal
- Access to a variety of learning resources to support accredited professionals in their application of KAD ways of working
Digital badges are exclusive to those who have achieved all three levels (Knowledge + Behaviour Competency + Examination) as accredited for a team role. Badges are downloaded from the KAD portal.
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