Programs to build New Agile & NPD Skills for Teams & Leaders
Concise, Practical NPD Learning Programs
Since 2002, Auxilium has helped hundreds of product development teams and thousands of individuals build new skills through practical learning programs that get results. Our programs focus on key roles as well as the application of agile processes to increase speed, focus on customer needs and to drive innovation efforts. A summary of our programs include:
- Agile for Hardware Development – For teams to learn the methods of agile when more than software is involved.
- Engineering Leadership – Designed for engineering and technical leaders at all levels using a practical and logical approach to leadership development.
- Product Owner and Management Excellence – For product leaders to write powerful user stories, lead strategy and direct market-leading products.
- Agile Innovation Techniques – For technical and marketing leaders to apply agile skills to drive new ideas and innovation into their product efforts.
Learn On Your Schedule
We provide flexible online or in-person programs that fit your needs. Each session can range from 2-hours to a full day and be customized to your process, challenges, products and industry.
Agile Excellence Course Summaries
Below are summaries of Auxilium’s concise 4-hour courses in each area of product development training: Agile for Hardware Methods, Engineering Leadership, Product Owner and Management Excellence, and Agile Innovation Techniques.
Project and Engineering Leadership
Build new personal, team and company level leadership and management skills to resolve conflicts, stay focused, guide teams and take your career to the next level.
Building Key Characteristics for Influential Leadership
In this course we explore leadership focus areas that are typically critical, and we’ll discuss your specific challenges to help you work on leadership traits that matter most.
Skills for Successful Engineering Management
Prepares engineers to navigate the challenges of managing engineering teams and perform at a very high level.
Leadership for Engineers
Teaches skills needed to lead projects, drive innovation, and influence others in an engineering role.
Project Management for Engineers
Teaches the fundamentals of project management, and an approach to project planning that enables teams to develop realistic, comprehensive plans quickly.
Agile Product Owner and Management Excellence
Build new strategic skills in creating customer value, developing high-impact communications, creating powerful product strategies, writing effective requirements and optimizing profit and loss for your products and markets.
P&L and Finance Skills for Technical Leaders
This course provides skills in understanding the critical language of finance to effectively communicate with executives, optimize your products’ profit and participate in the strategic planning process.
Building Vision-Based Product Strategies and Roadmaps
Product leaders must create a compelling vision and roadmap for their products. This course develops new strategic skills to develop a powerful long-term vision for your products and market segments.
Powerful Requirements to Deliver the Right Products
Product requirements provide the critical translation between customer needs and competitive advantage to product features and attributes. This course gives product leaders the skills and tools to write powerful, accurate and effective requirements.
Identifying and Quantifying Customer Value
At the core of every market-leading product is an amazing value proposition. This course gives you the skills, methods and tools to clarify who your target customer is, what they value and how to quantify and communicate this to others.
Agile for Hardware Development Framework
At the core of Auxiilium’s agile product development training is the MAHD Framework. This provides a flexible, practical approach to agile development for physical products along with specific tools and templates to quickly manage any project more effectively. Learn more about the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework.
Building Agile Principles Into Your Hardware Organization
A complete overview and toolkit to apply the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) framework to any project that can benefit from a focused kickoff, consistent stakeholder feedback and iterative development cycles.
Scaling MAHD – Managing Large Projects & Portfolios
The skills to go beyond the core MAHD Framework to manage large projects, product lines and full portfolios. You’ll learn also learn how to manage multiple MAHD projects simultaneously.
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MAHD Roles – Skills for Leading Successful Projects
For agile for hardware product owners and project managers to build expert facilitation skills and become adept with a range of tools and techniques to guide agile projects successfully.
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Initiating a MAHD Project-On-Ramp to Iterations
This fast-paced program provides the steps and guidance for starting an agile for hardware project from early concept to full Iteration Plan. You’ll learn each step of the On-Ramp through Iteration Planning.
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Foundations of Agile for Hardware Development
A complete overview and toolkit to apply the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) framework to any project that can benefit from a focused kickoff, consistent stakeholder feedback and iterative development cycles.
Applied Innovation with Agile Techniques
Skills and methods to translate customer needs into valuable new product capabilities, identify new, high-potential opportunities and manage a pipeline of innovation projects.
Managing Innovation Project Pipelines
You’ll build new skills in innovation management with methods for evaluating a portfolio of projects, forecasting the market potential of new products, calculating the ROI of innovation efforts as well as how to make tough decisions.
Leading Innovation Projects and Teams
You’ll learn new skills to overcome the unique challenges presented by innovation projects by adapting the basic tools of agile and project management to the world of innovation to lead teams and gain new commitment for your projects.
Building the Case for New Innovations
Getting support and funding for new projects takes more than a great idea… it takes a solid business case. You’ll build new skills to systematically build concise, complete and compelling proposals.
Seeing Innovative Features and Opportunities
Learn the tools and methods for both individuals and teams to build, filter and prioritize a consistent pipeline of innovative ideas for new features and opportunities that are based on real customer needs and market trends.
Are You Ready to Build Your Agile Product Development Skills?
Join thousands of product professionals who have seen their career take off. We look forward to hearing from you.
