INNOVATION ROOTS Announces a new Workshop on Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)

We are pleased to announce Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) workshop with Janice Linden Reed, the Chief Program Officer at Lean Kanban, Inc. This is the 4th consecutive year INNOVATION ROOTS is organizing this workshop as part of the Lean Kanban 2018 conference, a flagship event of Lean Kanban University. This workshop is going to be held on September 16-20, 2018 at Bengaluru, India.

This is a five-days workshop especially designed for Kanban enthusiasts and helps the participants to take the AKT certification exam and become a certified Kanban trainer in the future. At the workshop, participants will learn the best practices in Kanban, and the characteristics that is essential for any Kanban Trainer.

This is an interactive and collaborative training where participants will be indulged in several learning exercises, games and simulations to learn Kanban practices, principles, build mindset and confidence required to take the Kanban classes. In this five-day course, the participants will also have to present a case study on Kanban, which will be evaluated by co-participants and other Kanban Trainers.

 

Register for the workshop at www.innovationroots.com

Lean Product Development | Glossary

Definition:

A practical approach to accelerating time to market through aggressive waste elimination in planning, resource management, design control and interdisciplinary communication.

Lean Product Development (LPD) compromises of driving waste out of the product development process, improving the way projects are executed and visualizing the product development process.

By closely examining the product development process from a lean perspective, the opportunities to drive out waste and increases value become obvious.

LPD capitalizes the Lean principles to meet the challenges in the Product Development.

Lean Product Development solves the following issues:

  • Reduction of long development cycle times
  • Reducing the high costs of development
  • Reduction of production costs
  • Redevelopment cycles

 

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_product_development

http://insights.btoes.com/resources/lean-production-and-product-development