Agile Product Development Leadership Workshop Full Outline

Overview

This Agile Product Development Leadership Workshop helps to build ability for effectively leading in agile way-of-working environments. Whether your teams are just getting started with agile, or if you’re looking to increase leadership effectiveness with established agile practices, this workshop can boost leadership effectiveness in all key roles participating.

Flexible uses:

• Standard or customized training for a specific group in your company
• Tailored sessions to facilitate organizational goals and problem-solving
• Piloting to consider adding to your company’s learning program
• Licensing the content to include in your learning curriculum

Contact us for scheduling, or book a call here to discuss your goals, timeline and questions.

Workshop Outline

Agile Leadership Overview and Fundamentals

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

Agile Leadership Roles and Teams

• Key agile roles
• Agile team structures
• Software development 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
• Role mapping exercise

Cross-functional Agile Planning

• Agile portfolio planning
• Resource allocation approaches
• Product Owner and Agile Project Leader collaboration
• Product Owner responsibilities & challenges
• Agile Project Leader key responsibilities & challenges
• Product vs. project mindset
• Agile requirements management

Leveraging an Iterative Approach

• Iterative planning approaches
• Key Value Streams
• Agile risk mitigation
• Facilitating team & stakeholder alignment
• Demonstrating visible progress
• Leveraging iteration results for rapid, optimal tradeoff decisions
• Continuous improvement and measures of success

Building a Culture for Agile Success

• What is agile success?
• Typical leadership 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, Excel planning templates, and follow-up guidance.

Professional Development Units: 8.0 PDUs

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