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Corporate Workshops and Training for Kanban and Agile Practices

Improve your workflow efficiency through Kanban, with hands-on workshops customized to the needs of your organization.

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Why Kanban Canada?

We bring real-world work experience to every workshop.

Explain

We explain the principles.

Demonstrate

We demonstrate the practices.

Customize

We customize every workshop to exactly what your organization needs.

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Since 2016More than a decade of helping Canadian teams improve their workflow
Why Kanban?

Regulate the flow of value, the way dams regulate a river.

Kanban is an Agile method used to manage and optimize workflow. Similar to how a system of dams regulates the flow of water in a river, Kanban helps regulate and enhance the flow of value to customers. It applies to both project work and operational work, and is based on Lean management principles.

Kanban will help you continuously improve your workflow efficiency.

Do you want to minimize waste, maximize value and create predictability? Switch the dam on and off to see the difference.

Minimize waste0 lostNothing spills or gets dropped
Maximize value0 deliveredFinished work reaching the customer
Create predictabilitySteady
Use cases

Does your team need a Kanban system?

Below are three potential use cases for Kanban. See if one of them sounds like your team.

On-demand work requests

The Reporting team

  • Produces a variety of custom financial reports on demand for different departments.
  • Always has report requests at different stages: some waiting, others in progress.
  • Needs predictable completion dates and maximum value from the process.
The Reporting team needs a Kanban system.
Repetitive work items

The Service Assurance team

  • Handles and resolves customer tickets and cases.
  • Has several open tickets at any time: some waiting, others actively worked on.
  • Needs to cut resolution time and close more tickets each day.
The Service Assurance team needs a Kanban system.
Work backlog

The Project Delivery team

  • Completes items from a diverse work backlog.
  • Found Scrum inefficient on similar past projects because of the variety of items.
  • Needs shorter delivery times, a more efficient team and more value created.
The Project Delivery team needs a Kanban system.
Workshops

Practical workshops designed for the way your teams actually work.

Corporate workshops for groups of ten or more, delivered online or in person worldwide. Here is how they work.

  1. 1Discover

    We start with a preliminary meeting with your representative to understand your goals, your audience and your use cases.

    Workshops customized to the needs of your organization.

    Preliminary meeting
  2. 2Design

    We customize the content and build the practical exercises around your own use cases.

    Principles and practices illustrated with your real work.

    A few hours to 4 days
  3. 3Deliver

    Live instruction, group discussions and hands-on activities, online or in person.

    Certified instructors with years of real-world experience. We walk our talk.

    Online worldwideIn person worldwidePlay2Learn in person
  4. 4Certify

    Every participant receives a Certificate of Course Completion and a free certification exam.

    Stand out with a Kanban Canada professional certification

    Free exam per participantDigital badge
Workshop topics

Choose a workshop, or build your own.

Pick one of our workshops, or let us combine topics into a custom one. We make sure the content flows seamlessly, with use cases and exercises aligned to your choice.

Agile Essentials

4–8 hrsOnline / in personFree exam per participant

This workshop will equip you with a comprehensive understanding of key Agile and Lean concepts, principles, and practices, establishing a strong foundation for effectively identifying, evaluating, and implementing optimal work-management strategies within your organization. You will learn how modern teams plan, prioritize, and deliver work using frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, and gain the skills to analyze workflow challenges, improve delivery efficiency, and enhance collaboration across teams.

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Kanban Essentials

4–8 hrsOnline / in personFree exam per participant

This workshop will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of key Kanban concepts, elements, and principles, and how they connect to broader Agile and Lean management approaches. You will learn how to visualize and optimize workflow, limit work in progress, and improve flow efficiency using proven Kanban practices and metrics. Through real-world examples and practical exercises, you will analyze system constraints, enhance predictability, and support continuous improvement.

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Agile and Kanban Essentials

6–12 hrsOnline / in personFree exam per participant

This workshop will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of key Agile, Lean, and Kanban concepts, elements, and principles, and how they work together to support modern work-management practices. Through practical exercises and real-world use cases, you will analyze workflow challenges, identify constraints, and drive continuous improvement, and be equipped to implement strategies that increase predictability, reduce bottlenecks, and deliver greater value.

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Optimizing Kanban Delivery

4–8 hrsOnline / in personFree exam per participant

This workshop will cover the essential Kanban concepts, elements, and principles, giving you a clear understanding of how Kanban supports effective work management and continuous improvement. You will learn how to visualize work, manage flow, limit work in progress, and use key Kanban metrics to optimize performance and predictability, then apply these insights to real workflow scenarios to identify bottlenecks and design meaningful improvements.

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Product Owner

6–12 hrsOnline / in personFree exam per participant

This hands-on workshop introduces the core mindset, principles, and practical skills of modern Product Ownership. Participants learn how Agile product teams work, with a focus on Scrum and Kanban, and develop key product artifacts including product vision, value propositions, roadmaps, and backlogs, while practicing customer feedback analysis, relative estimation, customer journey mapping and end-to-end delivery using sprints.

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Included for every participant

Practical learning, materials and certification support.

Each participant gets their own certification exam voucher, included at no additional cost.

Customized content and deliveryBuilt around your team and your use cases.
The workshopLive, practical and engaging, online or in person.
Certificate of Course CompletionFor every participant.
Free certification examExam voucher, plus a certification diploma and digital badge after passing.
NEW Kanban Canada Kanban Board Game Play2Learn

Experience Kanban through a fast-paced simulation.

An innovative, game-based approach that replaces traditional lectures with immersive, hands-on simulations of real agile practices. Teams learn faster, adopt sooner and remember longer.

A team of five playing the Play2Learn Kanban board game around a table
Play2Learn in action
About Kanban

The Kanban Method is a means to design, manage, and improve flow systems for knowledge work.

Kanban practices

  • Visualize
    Make the work and how it flows visible to everyone.
  • Limit work in progress
    Cap work in progress to finish faster and cut multitasking.
  • Manage flow
    Watch how work moves and remove what slows it down.
  • Make policies explicit
    Agree on how the team works and write it down.
  • Implement feedback loops
    Hold regular reviews to inspect results and adapt.
  • Improve collaboratively
    Use shared models and data to improve together.
  • Evolve experimentally
    Run small, safe experiments and keep what works.
Our customers and partners

Trusted by organizations across Canada.

CustomersOrganizations we have worked with
BMO
WSIB Ontario
Chiefs of Ontario
Humber Polytechnic
Association of Romanian Engineers in Canada
eBrand
PartnersOrganizations we partner with
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
cprime Learning
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Testimonials

What participants say.

“

Instructor was quite engaging and passionate about the topic. Group work was very valuable to my learning. Exercises were helpful for me to know where I needed to improve.

Workshop participant
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The teacher’s dynamic energy, mastery of the material, and interest in his students’ learning made this an outstanding experience.

Workshop participant
Corporate workshops

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