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

For PMI credit, report as courses from other third-party providers.

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