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KAD Team Howie™ Certification
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 Howie, participants will:
- Describe the Kanban Accelerated Delivery (KAD) ways of working for a team
- Outline the 5 steps of Continuous Learning using Experiments with Scientific Thinking (CLEST)
- Describe their responsibilities as a KAD Howie
- Contribute to the regular Daily Kanban Catchup
- Create and improve the team’s KAD Delivery 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 Howie 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 – Howie contribution
- Team Collaboration 3: Customer Feedback
- Team Collaboration 4: Queue Replenishment
- Team Collaboration 5: Continuous Improvement
- Daily Improving the team Delivery Kanban board
- Managing team capacity with Work in Progress (WiP) Limits
- Setting up the initial KAD team Kanban board
What Attendees Get
Registration includes:
- KAD Team Howie™ workbook handouts including Quick Reference Guides where applicable
- Preparation to take the KAD Team Howie™ 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 Delivery Kanban Board
- Team KAD Measurement Board
- Team CLEST
Who Will Benefit?
Persons who will benefit from the KAD Team Howie™ course:
- Do the work of delivering a service (whether consumed internally by another functional department, or to external customers); or
- Do knowledge work where there is some analysis, critical thinking or problem solving required to create outputs of value; or
- Managers that accountable for leading a group of people to deliver services;
- People who work closely with a team/s that use a KAD Kanban Boards.
Prerequsites
There are no curriculum prerequisites to attend the KAD Team Howie™ 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 a team kanban, however in depth knowledge of statistics is not required.
Accreditation Pathway
To apply for accreditation as KAD Team Howie™, participants are required to:
- Knowledge – Attend classroom training to obtain a KAD Team Howie™ Certificate of Completion; then
- Behaviours – Practice applying the knowledge, then have a KAD mentor observe the accurate application of course knowledge through consistent behaviours on the job to achieve a Certificate of Competency; and then
- Examination – Pass the KAD Team Howie™ online exam to be accredited with a Certificate of Accreditation that is valid for one year.
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 Howie™ Certificate
- An Accredited KAD Team Howie™ 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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