AGILE-400
Executive Workshop
Course Overview
Many organizations adopt Agile to improve competitiveness and efficiency in product development, but traditional management approaches can hinder progress. Hindrances include planning and budgeting processes, HR metrics, and incentives.
Our workshop facilitates discussions among individuals who don’t typically interact. Participants address product development practices, challenges, and improvement strategies.
This course offers an overview of Agile product innovation, drawing from real-world experiences and correcting common misconceptions. It explores Agile principles and their role in product development, focusing on leadership roles within Agile organizations. Practical aspects like product planning, budgeting, and requirements exercises are covered. The course emphasizes various Agile practices and continuous improvement through retrospectives. It equips leaders with a strategic mindset for working effectively with Agile teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the principles of Agile product innovation and their role in product development.
- Explore the role of leadership in Agile organizations.
- Gain insights into product planning, budgeting, and requirements exercises in an Agile context.
- Learn about various Agile practices and continuous improvement through retrospectives.
- Develop a strategic mindset for working effectively with Agile teams.
Suitable For
Company leadership: Senior executives of all departments, and one to two levels down
Course Outline
- Agile from a management perspective
- Product Development
- Understanding the customer
- Time-to-market
- Collaboration between Engineering and Product Management
- Eliminating waste
- Reducing risk
- Meeting budgets, deadlines and business objectives
- The role of the broader organization
- HR policies
- Budgeting
- Product Development
- Group activities – participants from different departments and levels share their perspectives
- Success & challenges of the company’s product development
- Any Agile adoption efforts
- Resolutions on how to improve the company