Agile Training Overview
This Product Thinking: Lean Startup & Design training course teaches attendees how to make the transition from project thinking to product thinking. Students learn how to measure the customer value of features along with how the software delivery process can be changed to support this new way of thinking.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.
Objectives
All students will learn how to:
- Understand the role of the Agile product manager through the entire lifecycle
- Understand the critical role of a cross-functional and self-managed team
- Apply Design Thinking and Lean Startup
- Use creative strategies to plan a portfolio or product backlog using the Mobius Loop
- Bridge the gap between traditional project management and product management
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this class.
Outline
Expand All | Collapse All
Introduction
The new Product Values and Mindset
Product Thinking versus Project Thinking
- Outcome vs. Outputs
- The Empirical Process Backbone
- Projects vs. Products
- How Product Thinking Can Drive Innovation
Design Thinking
- Design Thinking Overview
- Design Thinking Golden Rules
- Definition
- Ideate
- Evaluate
- Prototype
- Test
Lean Startup
- Overview
- Who is the Customer?
- Pivot or persevere
The Mobius Loop
- Combining Lean Start Up and Design Thinking into One Product Repeatable Framework
- The Discovery Cycle
- Design Thinking
- Options Cycle
- Lean Startup
- The MVP Experiment
- Building KVI’s
- System Thinking Impact Analysis
- Delivery Cycle
- Building the Team’s Backlogs/Roadmaps
- MVP Revisited
- Prioritization
- Estimation
- Technical Debt
- Build-Measure-Learn
- Pivot or Persevere
Conclusion
Training Materials
All training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
For in-person deliveries, attendees do not need computers for this course. We will provide full classroom setup instructions that will include seating in small groups, with supplies such as flipcharts, sticky notes, markers, and pens for the attendees and a projector and Internet connection for the instructor's laptop.
Online deliveries for this interactive training will use an online meeting platform (such as Zoom, WebEx, GoTo, or Teams) to have face-to-face contact online, including use of breakout rooms for group activities.
