Lean Black Belt English

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is the fastest route to become a Lean Agile Black Belt. This training lasts for 15 days and combines the Green Belt training and the Green to Black Belt training. The Green Belt training will be a start-up point and you will learn how to implement a project according to the Lean Agile method. Then you will move on to the Green Belt to Black Belt training, where you will also gain more in-depth knowledge.

You will develop competencies to lead processes improvement and implementation. Then we will teach you step by step how to become a Lean Agile expert, who can solve complex problems, coach Green Belts and implement the Lean Agile program. It is an intensive and practical training that you can apply directly in your own work environment

Target audience

The Green Belt training is being chosen by project leaders, projects managers and consultants who wants to get started with Lean Agile. No previous education is required for this training. The training is on university level.

Length of the course

The Black Belt training lasts for 15 days spread over 7 blocks. In total, 120 hours of class time. Training times are from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The necessary preparation takes place for each of the 7 blocks, therefore you should reserve approximately 4 hours for preparation per block, so 28 hours in total. This is about putting the learned theory into practice as much as possible.

An exam follows the training, and it will take 3 hours. Exam preparation time varies per participant. From our experiences, we recommend for the most of participants approximately 20 hours of preparation. This exam includes both the Green Belt and the Green Belt to Black Belt materials.

Program

During this training you will learn how to improve business processes by detecting, analysing and reducing issues in the processes. It is not only about savings but also about altering processes implementation, particularly on what the customer pays for. The added value for your customer is being placed in the centre. This approach will simplify processes and at the same lead to greater customer satisfaction.

The outline of the 7-day training is as following:

Assignment preparation: “Looking for improvement project “

Block 1:

• Methodology introduction: What is Lean, What is Agile? and how do these methods cooperate with each other?
• Define: Who is the customer, what is the customer need/expectation, which process get involved and how to track the results?

Assignment preparation: “Going through the Define phase for project improvement and presenting the results”

Block 2:

• Measure: determine and performing a measurement, performing a measurement system analysis, determine the size of the obstacle.

Assignment preparation “Execute the Measure phase and presenting the current state” (value stream map and process capability).

Block 3:

• Analyse: identify the causes of the problem, data & process analysis, determine the root cause.
• Improve: seeking for solutions for the root cause, the best solution selection, implementing solution in practice.
• Control: secure the implemented solution, set up permanent measurement, determine results.
• Learning how to execute changes and to guarantee a project succeed within your organization.
• Exam preparation

Assignment preparation: “Implementing the Analyse phase and presenting of the critical causes”

Block 4:

• Masterclass Policy Deployment; This deepening module deals with program management and Lean Six Sigma Policy Deployments. The main question is: “How do we roll out process improvement in organizations and what is getting involved?”. This block involves a step-by-step improvement program for the organisation. We’re dealing with techniques such as Scrum, Lean Leadership, OGSM and the project improvement roadmap.

Assignment preparation: “Make the project improvement roadmap for your own organization”

Block 5:

• Masterclass Agile and Scrum; Agile working in teams, Scrum and working in sprints. Scaling Agile working in an organization with it Spotify model and with SAfe. Lean Agile coaching and the application of Agile working in various organizations.

Block 6:

• Masterclass Advanced Lean; Lean offers many techniques to analyse and improve even the most difficult processes. We will discuss it during this module, and how the processes can be analysed using Value Stream Mapping.

Assignment preparation: ” Future State Value Stream Map for an own process”

Block 7:

• Masterclass Black Belt; As a Black Belt you will implement Green Belts projects. Supervising projects or coaching are the skills themselves but one that can be learned. Based on the Kata coaching, we will teach our participants how to coach Green Belts.
• During the last part of this block, exam preparation will occur.