The Pragmatic Kanban Certification

Kanban is for you if one or more of the following statements are true:

• The team has more work than time (overloaded).
• It is not always clear who is working on what.
• The team always receives feedback late or unpredictably.
• A need for more cooperation and knowledge sharing (many islands with a lot of knowledge) exists.
• A lot is being worked on, but little is actually being achieved due to constantly changing priorities.
• It is unclear which activities are contributing to the organizational goals
• Poorly planned, highly urgent work.
• The same team is doing multiple projects with many stakeholders.

Parts of the organization that typically implement Kanban practices:

IT teams who do more than just new product development
Marketing, HR, Business Operations, Finance, Control, Legal, Sales
DevOps, IT Operation teams, Security, Architecture and BI teams (high level of expert knowledge)

The pragmatic Kanban certification is perfect as a basis for further growth with Lean and Agile and certification. Preparation for the Agile Foundation Exam from the Agile Consortium can be added to this training as an option as well as the certification Exam itself.

Subject include;

After the course candidates:

• understand foundational Lean/Agile principles on which Kanban was developed.
• can work in a team that has adopted Kanban as a method for work delivery.
• can visualize their process and work using a Kanban board.
• are able to leverage Kanban to manage priorities, conflicts and opportunities in their work delivery process.
• understand role-based scenarios when practicing Kanban.
• understand how Kanban principles and practices can be applied with other lean –  and/or agile methods like Scrum.
• understand how to predictably forecast work and manage stakeholder expectations.
• can identify opportunities for improvement in their process.
• can identify opportunities for radically improving time to market.
• can analyse and interpret data generated by their process and take action accordingly in order to improve delivery.

You must pass a multiple-choice exam in which your knowledge of Kanban will be tested to obtain a Kanban Foundation certificate.

All exam candidates will get access to the online exam environment and will need to answer 60 multiple-choice questions within 60 minutes.

You must answer 70% of the questions correctly (or at least 42 of the 60 questions) to pass. Each question has exactly four possible answers where only one is the best answer.
You will receive the result immediately after the exam. (Digital) Access to your certificate will be given once you have passed.

Register for the exam can be done by purchasing a participation certificate at  www.vhls.global.

Number of questions:  60
Time (minutes) for the exam:  60 minutes
% minimal passing grade 70%
Open/closed book:  Closed
Language:  English.

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Exam format: Online. Written exams can only be taken upon request.

Type of questions: The exam consists exclusively of multiple-choice questions with four possible answers. (one is the best answer)
Are there also negative questions included in the exam?

(For example: “Which of the following is NOT a principle in the Agile Manifesto?”)
So, yes -candidates are advised to read the questions carefully.

During your exam preparation, you will familiarize yourself with the concepts of Lean and Agile thinking in general, and Kanban in specific. There are ongoing publications about Kanban, Agile, and Lean. So, it should be easy to find books, articles, blogs, vlogs, or videos about different aspects. We want to encourage you to look into these and discover your way around the world of Kanban.

The exam is related to the Pragmatic Kanban Foundation Courseware. Additional recommended literature to study:

• Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
  Author: David J Anderson
  ISBN: 9780984521401
• Kanban from the Inside
  Author: Mike Burrows
  ISBN: 9780985305192
• Personal Kanban Mapping Work – Navigating Life
  Author: Tonianne Demaria Barry
  ISBN: 9781453802267
• Practical Kanban From team Focus To Creating Value
  Author: Klaus Leopold
  ISBN: 9783903205390

The following will also be provided to help you prepare for the exam:

• An indication of how each module weighs on the exam.
• A practice exam is available online after purchasing an exam. The practice exam contains questions at the same level as the questions in the actual exam. The number of questions may differ from the actual exam. The actual exam contains 60 questions for which you get 60 minutes.

• Attempting the certification exam is a sure way of consolidating the participants’ Agile Foundation knowledge and to make sure the learning gaps are effectively addressed.
• Certification is the only way to ascertain the participants understood the concepts and ready to embark on implementation work. Otherwise, there is no quantifiable way to measure their effectiveness knowledge transfer.
• Certification is an indication that the participants attained proficiency in Agile and acknowledged by an independent international body
• From an educational point of view, it is a big morale booster and motivates participants to engage confidently in real-life implementation and collaborative in the project environment.