Agile Product Development Fundamentals Workshop Full Outline

Course Outline

Agile Product Development Overview

• Agile principles and frameworks
• Agile goals and overcoming challenges
• Differences between software and physical product agile development
• Key elements needed for complex cross-disciplined projects
• Agile organizational structures

Agile Roles, Teams and Responsibilities

• Key agile roles
• Agile team structures
• Software roles vs. physical product development roles
• Misconceptions about roles and agile activities
• Autonomous teams & what that means for management and team members
• Mapping traditional roles & responsibilities to agile teams

Product Owner and Agile Project Leader/Manager Roles

• Product Owner and Agile Project Leader collaboration
• Product Owner responsibilities & challenges
• Levels of product ownership
• Agile Project Leader key responsibilities & challenges
• Product vs. project mindset
• Agile requirements management

Agile Project Leadership Fundamentals

• Key agile project leadership concepts
• Cross-disciplined agile planning & execution
• Iterative planning approaches
• Key Value Streams
• Initial risk identification & agile mitigation
• Facilitating team & stakeholder alignment
• Demonstrating visible progress
• Leveraging iteration results for rapid, optimal tradeoff decisions

Building a Culture for Agile Success

• What is agile success?
• Typical challenges to overcome
• Identifying issues & prioritizing effort
• Leadership roles & responsibilities for supporting success
• Agile leadership of an agile culture

What’s included: Live instructor-led course, workshop materials, NPD Assessment, facilitated action plan, certificate of completion, and 30 minutes of follow-up coaching.

Professional Development Units: 6.5 PDUs

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