Kanban System Design
The Kanban System Design (KSD) course equips leaders, practitioners, and change agents with the skills to design, implement, and evolve a Kanban system tailored to their organization’s unique context. Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all framework, this course focuses on understanding how work flows today, and how to intentionally design a system that improves outcomes without disrupting what already works.
Through hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and practical tools, participants learn how to visualize work, manage flow, make policies explicit, and design feedback loops that enable continuous improvement. The result: a Kanban system that aligns people, processes, and strategy around delivering value faster and more predictably.
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What you'll learn
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand Kanban as a system design approach, not just a board or set of practices
- Identify sources of delay, bottlenecks, and variability in current workflows
- Design a Kanban system aligned to organizational goals and customer needs
- Define and evolve explicit policies to improve clarity and decision-making
- Use flow metrics (lead time, cycle time, throughput) to drive improvement
- Design effective feedback loops for learning, risk management, and adaptation
- Apply evolutionary change principles to improve systems without disruption
- Confidently facilitate Kanban System Design workshops within their teams or organizations
This course is ideal for:
- Agile Coaches and Lean Coaches
- Scrum Masters and Delivery Leaders
- Product Managers and Product Owners
- Project and Program Managers
- Portfolio, PMO, or VMO leaders
- Transformation leaders and change agents
- Anyone responsible for improving flow, predictability, or delivery outcomes
No prior Kanban experience is required, just a desire to improve how work gets done.
SAMPLE AGENDA
Understanding the System & Designing for Flow
- Introduction to Kanban and evolutionary change
- Understanding demand, capability, and sources of delay
- Visualizing work and workflow design
- Managing flow and limiting work in progress (WIP)
- Designing explicit policies
- System design simulations and hands-on exercises
Improving, Evolving, and Sustaining the System
- Flow metrics and analytics for decision-making
- Feedback loops and cadences for continuous improvement
- Managing risk and dependencies with Kanban
- Scaling Kanban across teams and services
- Designing a Kanban System Design workshop
- Applying Kanban in real-world organizational contexts
LitheSpeed Training Experience
Why Take Kanban System Design with LitheSpeed
At LitheSpeed, Kanban is taught as part of a broader value delivery and operating model, not as an isolated practice. Our instructors bring decades of experience helping organizations design systems that work in complex, real-world environments.
When you take Kanban System Design with LitheSpeed, you gain:
- Practitioner-led instruction grounded in real enterprise experience
- A focus on outcomes, flow, and value, not just mechanics
- Practical tools you can apply immediately in your organization
- Insights that connect Kanban to Agile, Lean Portfolio Management, and Agile VMO® practices
- Access to a growing community of leaders improving value delivery at scale
Whether you’re introducing Kanban for the first time or refining an existing system, this course will help you design a solution that fits your context, and evolves as your organization grows.