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About the certification
What TKP means
Team Kanban Practitioner is a practical certification from Kanban University. It shows that a person understands how to use Kanban at team level to improve flow, make work visible, and manage delivery with less friction. In profiles, you may also see it written as TKP or Team Kanban Practitioner.
What it validates
- Visualising work so the team can see priorities and blockers clearly
- Limiting work in progress to protect flow and focus
- Reading lead time, cycle time, and bottlenecks in everyday work
- Using Kanban policies to make expectations explicit
- Improving service delivery without forcing a full process reset
Typical holder profile
People with TKP often work as team leads, agile coaches, product people, delivery managers, or experienced practitioners inside knowledge work teams. They are usually closest to daily execution and help teams change habits in a way that fits real demand. In Germany, this certification is especially relevant for companies that want hands-on support for distributed teams, hybrid collaboration, or stronger delivery flow across departments.
Knowledge areas
- Kanban board design and work item flow
- Classes of service and how to use them carefully
- Policies, cadence, and team agreements
- Flow metrics and service orientation
- Bottleneck analysis and continuous improvement
What it tells a company
A freelancer holding TKP can help a team improve how work moves from request to done. That matters when delivery feels crowded, priorities change often, or too many tasks sit in progress at once. The certification suggests a practical grasp of team-level Kanban rather than theory only, which makes it useful for short-term advisory work, workshop facilitation, or hands-on support inside product and delivery teams.
Where it fits
TKP is a good fit for software teams, operations groups, support functions, and cross-functional product work. It is also relevant when a company wants a freelancer who can introduce Kanban without heavy ceremony. For German organisations, this can mean remote coaching, on-site workshops, or support in English when teams work across locations.
Meet FRATCH Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)
Sabine Liberty
Expert & Interim Manager B2B Communications, Change Communications, Content Creation
Last position:
Communications consultant for crisis communication/issue management at AQIM – Association for Quality in Interim Management
Planning, execution & moderation of crisis communication and reputation management
AQIM is a non-profit organization based in Austria. An association of interim managers from Germany and Austria. Founded in December 2024. Multi-part training with workshops and consulting for preventive crisis communication, in cooperation with the founding members and those responsible for communication. To assess crisis potential for the market entry strategy and ahead of a digital campaign.
The project in a nutshell:
Consulting and training for the purpose of:
- Analysis of crisis potential as a new market entrant and its internet-based communication activities
- Planning and developing crisis communication with targeted measures
- Developing a crisis plan to minimize reputation risks in an emergency
- Conducting training and information sessions
Success:
- What started as a one-time consulting event for preparing an information campaign became a multi-part workshop on preventive crisis communication. This not only gave the organization expertise and confidence in the event of acute challenges, but also gave the participating interim managers new skills for their day-to-day work on assignments
- The workshop enabled those responsible to launch the information campaign that was being prepared at the time and planned for six months, as scheduled at the end of January 2026 on social media
- Careful scheduling and defining how to handle critical voices in terms of terminology and tone, as well as compliance rules, ensured a smooth start and run of a 3-month information campaign
Andreas Lober
Lead Consultant
Last position:
Lead Consultant at Market leader in facility management
Acting as sparring partner for facility and cluster managers on team coordination, prioritization, and customer communication
Developing key metrics and deriving actions
Comparing sites and transferring best-practice processes
Coordinating a cross-site energy performance management program aimed at sustainable savings in electricity, water, and heating energy consumption
Sustainable stabilization of operational team performance and increased customer satisfaction, measured by a reduction in fault reports and escalations
More focused management of suppliers and subcontractors with high transparency in scheduling and delivery fulfillment
Identifying buildings with the highest energy consumption per net area and deriving cross-site measures
Thorsten Heintke
Managing Partner
Last position:
Program Manager at Telecommunications Industry
- Program Manager for a strategically highly relevant compliance project in the enterprise segment (C4)
- Leading 6 workstreams
- Setting up the project organization, establishing communication structures, project and budget planning, risk management
- Reporting to the CIO
- Facilitating steering committee meetings
- Facilitating critical solution processes
- Responsible for adapting the operating model of the IT organizations in Germany, the EU and India, including planning and managing the relocation of affected employees
Alexandra Korolija
Interim Head of Marketing
Last position:
Interim Head of Marketing at Moeller Medical
- Vacancy cover during extensive personnel changes and ongoing professionalization and digitization initiatives
- Leadership and stabilization of the marketing team and improvements of marketing organization, processes and infrastructure
- Development of team roles, working methods and internal collaboration
- Establishment of digital marketing structures, CRM and marketing operations initiatives
- Introduction of AI-driven workflows for content and knowledge management
- Sharpening of positioning in the business units OEM and Aesthetics
- Management of strategic projects such as Microsoft Dynamics Customer Insights implementation and international brand protection projects
- Team stabilization despite extensive personnel changes
- More efficient marketing processes and reduced operational complexity
- Foundation laid for further digitization and growth initiatives
Martin Kulla
Management Consultant, Project Manager, Interim Manager
Last position:
Leading European pet food retail company
- Established and managed the PMO for the implementation of measures to optimize private-label brands (module responsibility)
- Managed a tracking tool to measure and manage the financial impact (contribution margin 1) of improvement measures (module responsibility)
- Conducted scenario analyses to assess the operational and financial impacts of measures aimed at strengthening the company’s own brand and product portfolio (module responsibility)
- Supported a strategic review and repositioning of the brands portfolio (private-label brands) in the pet food and pet accessories divisions (client support)
- Conducted detailed benchmarking analyses to assess the market coverage of the private-label brands and identify gaps (client support)
- Assisted the private-label procurement organization with supplier analyses (client support)
- Supported the private-label brands management team as well as the company’s executive management team in their decision-making (client support)
Volker Wiethaup
Senior SAP SD/EDI Consultant
Last position:
SD Project Team Member
- Support for the SAP rollout for sales companies in Germany: creation of training materials, key user training, tests, go-live and hypercare phases, and support activities
- Industry: building components
- Software: SAP ERP 6.0
Dominic Bilke
Freelance Engineer
Last position:
Freelance Engineer at Bilke Web and Software Development
- Web and software development
- Project work
Thomas Kuhne
Senior Scrum Master/Co-RTE
Last position:
Senior Scrum Master/Co-RTE at Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Energy & Infrastructure Management)
- Activity within a Large Solution
- Coordination of 2 development teams (backend) + System Team + DevOps
- Value Stream Workshops
- Leading the Community of Practice for Scrum Masters
- Onboarding and training of junior Scrum Masters
- Leading Inspect & Adapt workshops
- Assessing and improving ART agility
- Release management
- Teaching SAFe classes as a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- Agile coaching for Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe DevOps
- Vision & Purpose Workshops
- Handling OKRs, personal development & growth, Liberating Structures
- Certified SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- Certified SAFe 5 Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Program Consultant Agile Coach (SPC)
- Certified SAFe 5 Agile Product Manager (APM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/PM (POPM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
- Certified SAFe 5 DevOps Practitioner (SDP)
- Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner (SP)
- Professional Scrum Master II (Scrum.org)
- Professional Agile Leadership I
- Scrum Master XU Group (training startup) (Scrum.org)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (Scrum.org)
- Project Management Professional (PMP at PMI)
- Team Kanban Practitioner (Kanban University)
Cornelia Von Hardenberg
Freelance Consultant for Organization, Dialogue and Transformation; Partner
Last position:
Freelance Consultant for Organization, Dialogue and Transformation; Partner at Institute for Transformation Management iTM
- Consulting organizations in change processes
- Facilitating dialogues and workshops
- Developing and guiding transformation projects
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Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) statistics
Typical experience
29 years
Average project duration
3.1 years
Certifications per freelancer
7
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Operations
Top industries
Automotive, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Average rates for Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) & Seniority distribution
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The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Need clarity? Check out our simple overview of FRATCH
Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) validates that a professional can apply Kanban at team level in a practical way. It focuses on visible work, flow, explicit policies, and better handling of bottlenecks. For companies, that usually means the freelancer can help a team work with more clarity and less congestion.
No. TKP is narrower and more hands-on than broad management or transformation training. It is aimed at the team’s daily work system, not at redesigning the whole organisation. That makes it useful when you want immediate improvement in delivery flow.
Team Kanban Practitioner is well suited to people who work close to execution, such as team leads, agile coaches, delivery managers, or product professionals. It also fits freelancers who support teams in improving workflow and reducing delays. If the role includes guiding day-to-day flow, TKP is a strong signal.
Before pursuing TKP, a person should be comfortable with basic agile teamwork and the idea of managing work visually. The certification is practical, so preparation usually means learning how Kanban boards, flow, and work policies fit real team situations. It is helpful, but not usually something people need deep technical background for.
TKP is the team-level starting point for Kanban University’s learning path. More advanced certifications go deeper into service delivery, system design, or change leadership. If you need someone to improve a single team’s flow, TKP is often the right level.
The Team Kanban Practitioner credential is associated with ongoing professional learning under Kanban University’s framework. In practice, holders should stay current by using Kanban in real teams and by following the organisation’s latest guidance on certification maintenance. Companies should treat it as evidence of active practice, not just past study.
A TKP freelancer is most valuable in projects with changing priorities, too much work in progress, or unclear handoffs. That includes software delivery, support, operations, and cross-functional product work. In Germany, it can be especially useful when teams need remote coordination or structured workshops in English or German.
If your main problem is team flow, visibility, and delivery discipline, Team Kanban Practitioner may be enough. If you need large-scale change, portfolio design, or enterprise-wide Kanban architecture, you may need a more advanced profile. For many companies, TKP is the right choice for practical improvement work.
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