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Practicing Kanban Using Azure Boards

Learn Kanban principles and hands-on Azure Boards setup to visualize workflow, set WIP limits, track flow metrics, and improve team throughput and predictability.

Advanced Accentient Traditional (Full Day) · Traditional (Half Day)

What changes for your team

  • Turn delivery guesswork into flow you can trust
  • Stop starting, start finishing
  • Manage with evidence, not status theater

Practicing Kanban Using Azure Boards

Course Code: PKAB

Overview

A one-day, hands-on course introducing Kanban principles and demonstrating how to configure and use Azure Boards to improve team flow, throughput, and predictability.

Target Audience

  • Software developers
  • Lean Agile practitioners
  • Product managers
  • Teams involved in backlog creation, planning, and execution
  • Managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and stakeholders interested in improving team flow
  • Scrum teams seeking to complement their practices with Kanban

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain Kanban core practices and how they apply to software development.
  2. Configure Azure Boards to support Kanban workflows.
  3. Visualize and manage workflow using Kanban boards, policies, and classes of service.
  4. Apply Work in Progress (WIP) limits and create pull systems to optimize flow.
  5. Use flow-based metrics and analytics (e.g., cycle time, lead time, cumulative flow diagrams) to improve predictability and throughput.
  6. Identify and address bottlenecks in the development process.

Course Topics

  • Introduction to Kanban and its core practices
  • Configuring Azure DevOps projects and managing product backlogs
  • Visualizing workflow with Kanban boards in Azure Boards
  • Defining workflow, policies, and classes of service
  • Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) and creating pull systems
  • Identifying and managing bottlenecks
  • Flow-based metrics and analytics (cycle time, lead time, Little’s Law)
  • Using cumulative flow diagrams, scatterplots, and Monte Carlo simulation
  • Achieving flow and predictability

Prerequisites

Certification

  • Not specified

Frequently Asked Questions

Practicing Kanban with Azure Boards is designed for all software development team members—developers, product managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and even managers or stakeholders wanting to improve team flow. If you have no involvement in backlog creation, planning, execution, or process improvement, this course may not be relevant to your work.

You’ll tackle challenges like visualizing workflow, limiting work in progress, identifying and managing bottlenecks, and using flow-based metrics to improve throughput and predictability—practical issues teams face in real agile environments.

Practicing Kanban with Azure Boards does not include a certification or assessment component.

Even teams using Scrum benefit—Kanban offers a complementary way to visualize and manage flow, and Practicing Kanban with Azure Boards focuses on practical improvements to throughput and predictability using flow metrics and Azure Boards features.

This is a highly hands-on course: you’ll work in teams on a common case study and use Azure Boards directly to apply Kanban principles, with labs woven through each module.

Syllabus

Here is exactly what your team will cover, and how we deliver it. Browse the syllabus below, then choose the format that fits how your people learn and how fast you need results:

Every format delivers practical skills your team can apply immediately—through incremental learning, outcome-based assignments, and facilitated reflections that connect the material to your real challenges and keep capability improving long after the session ends.

Catchup & After

Two weeks after completion, participants are invited to join a follow-up catch-up session designed to address any remaining questions, ideas, or challenges that have emerged since the training. This session provides an opportunity to reflect on your experiences applying the concepts learned in the course, share insights, and receive additional support.

* Assignments are part of our Immersive Training Programs, encouraging participants to apply their learning practically between sessions for a more hands-on experience.

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