Scrum Better with Kanban · Live Virtual
Kanban isn't a rival framework — it's a lens. In one day you'll learn to see exactly where work gets stuck inside your Scrum, and apply kanban's proven practices to unstick it. No re-org. No new ceremonies. No starting over.
$550 · Taught by Scott Dunn, Certified Scrum Trainer · Two-year Scrum Alliance membership included
Upcoming classes
Discover how Kanban's visual workflow and flow-based practices can supercharge your Scrum framework—reducing bottlenecks, improving predictability, and helping your team deliver value faster. Learn to blend the best of both worlds and walk away with practical techniques you can apply to your Scrum team immediately.
Bringing a team? We also run private courses tailored to your organization. Contact us for more info →
One course, two credentials
Scrum Alliance and Kanban University co-created this course, so completing it registers you for credentials from both organizations. Attend, participate, and they're yours — there's no test to sit afterward.
Scrum Alliance
A Scrum Alliance microcredential that shows you can strengthen scrum with kanban practices — recognized across the agile community and a natural next step after your CSM.
Kanban University
Kanban University's SKP certificate, confirming you know the kanban method's core practices and how to apply them in a real delivery context. Your entry point to the full kanban path.
AI-powered add-on
Sprints failing due to carryover work, blocked dependencies, and overloaded teams? This course pairs kanban's flow mechanics with AI-assisted workflow analysis, so you can see bottlenecks before they derail a release and forecast delivery from real data instead of a gut check. Whether you're stabilizing one scrum team or hybridizing scrum and kanban across maintenance, DevOps, and continuous delivery work, you'll leave with the dual credential and the modern analytics skillset today's engineering organizations expect.
AI 01
Apply WIP limits, service level expectations (SLEs), and visual pull systems to your existing scrum cadence, with AI helping surface where the system is actually straining.
AI 02
Use AI tools to analyze historical Jira or Azure DevOps data, spot hidden bottlenecks, and give stakeholders a confident "85% certainty" delivery date instead of a guess.
AI 03
Replace arbitrary story-point velocity with probabilistic forecasting built on Cumulative Flow Diagrams and real cycle-time data.
AI 04
Implement prompts and automated scripts that detect stale tickets, flow debt, and blocked dependencies before they quietly stall a sprint.
AI 05
Use AI to summarize sprint retro trends and generate actionable continuous-improvement experiments your team will actually run.
AI 06
Balance maintenance tickets, bugs, and roadmap commitments without thrashing team capacity, especially once fixed two-week sprints stop fitting the work.
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What you'll learn
This is a working day, not a lecture. You'll map your own team's workflow, run a flow simulation, and leave with changes you can make in your very next sprint.
01
Visualize what your team is actually doing — including the invisible queues and handoffs your board hides today.
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Use WIP limits to end the multitasking tax, so "in progress" stops being a place work goes to die.
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Find the bottleneck that's actually setting your pace, measure how long work really takes, and shrink the wait.
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Turn unspoken rules — what "ready," "done," and "pull next" mean — into agreements everyone can see and use.
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Get practical tools for the interruptions, unplanned work, and wildly different item sizes that wreck predictability.
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Improve through small, safe experiments your team will actually accept — kanban's evolutionary approach to change.
Who it's for
You don't need a kanban background, a new tool, or permission to change the framework. You just need to want your delivery to be more predictable than it is today.
Your team is doing all the events and still missing sprint goals. This gives you the diagnostic language — and the fixes — to change that.
Stop guessing at dates. Learn to forecast from how work actually flows instead of from how loudly the team estimated.
Get an evolutionary improvement approach you can introduce without a transformation program — and without a fight.
A one-day, credential-bearing step beyond your CSM that makes you measurably better at the job — not just better certified.
Straight answer on prerequisites: none are required. You'll get the most out of the day if you've worked in scrum before and have skimmed the current Scrum Guide — but no kanban training or experience is needed, and every experience level is welcome.
Your seat
One price, one day, and everything you need to make it stick when you're back with your team.
The Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential from Scrum Alliance and the Scrum Kanban Practitioner certificate from Kanban University.
Professional membership included with your seat — community, resources, and member pricing for two full years.
Learn to analyze what's actually holding your scrum team back, and which kanban techniques resolve each specific problem.
Practical techniques for interruptions, unplanned work, and unpredictable item sizes — the real reasons dates slip.
Real changes rooted in kanban's principles that you can bring to your next sprint — not a binder that sits on a shelf.
Your trainer
Founder, Rocket Nine Solutions · Certified Scrum Trainer
Scott has spent two decades coaching teams and leaders through agile transformations. He's trained thousands of Scrum Masters and Product Owners, and he's seen firsthand where scrum quietly breaks down — work sitting in review, teams starting five things to finish none, dates that slip for reasons nobody can name. He teaches this course the way he coaches: with your actual board, your actual bottlenecks, and changes you can make on Monday.
Questions
Not quite. If you're not using Scrum at all, look for a Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) class instead. Scrum Better with Kanban is built specifically for teams already running Scrum — it teaches you the same core Kanban Method (visualizing flow, limiting WIP, managing bottlenecks), but applied inside the Scrum framework you're already using, not as a replacement for it.
No. The course introduces kanban's foundational principles and practices from scratch and shows you how to apply them directly in your scrum context. All experience levels are welcome.
There are no formal prerequisites. You'll get more out of the day if you're familiar with scrum and have worked on a scrum team, and we recommend skimming the current Scrum Guide beforehand. A scrum certification is not required.
No — and that's the point. Scrum stays front and center. Kanban adds a way to see and improve how work flows through the framework you already have. You'll keep your roles, your events, and your sprint cadence.
One 8-hour live virtual day, instructor-led, mixing short teaching segments with simulation, discussion, and hands-on exercises using your own team's workflow. It's interactive by design, so cameras on and a willingness to participate go a long way.
No exam. To earn both credentials you attend the full course and actively participate. After the class we register you for the Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential and the Scrum Kanban Practitioner certificate.
Yes, and it's often the better option. A private class lets us use your real boards, your real bottlenecks, and your team's actual policies — so the improvements start the same day. Email hello@rocketninesolutions.com and we'll put together a plan.
Still deciding?
Not sure whether this is the right class for where your team is right now? Tell us what's going wrong in your sprints and we'll give you a straight answer — even if the answer is a different class.
Email us your question →Private & corporate training
Train a whole team or department together, on your schedule, using your own workflow as the case study. Everyone earns the same two credentials — and everyone leaves with the same shared language for fixing flow.
Request a private class →One live day, two credentials, and a team that ships what it commits to. Pick your date and let's fix the flow.