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Keeping your vision alive

SAFE® AGILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: IN-HOUSE TRAINING Discover and apply the mindset, skills, and tools you need to create successful products and solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable. The Agile Product Management course harnesses the power of Design Thinking to develop innovative solutions with proven SAFe® capabilities to execute on those visions. Learn the right mindset, skills, and tools to create successful products from inception to retirement using Agile techniques. Recognize how Continuous Exploration fuels innovation and helps you define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to tap into new markets. Find out how to accelerate the product life cycle to get fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers all while aligning with your organization's strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN After completing the class, you should be able to: * Use Design Thinking to achieve desirable, feasible, and sustainable outcomes * Explore market needs, segmentation, sizing, and competitive landscape * Manage value stream economics, including pricing and licensing * Use empathy to drive design * Apply product strategy and vision * Develop and evolve roadmaps * Execute and deliver value using SAFe® * Explore innovation in the value stream * Analyzing your Role as a Product Manager in the Lean Enterprise * Continuously Exploring Markets and Users * Driving Strategy with Market Segmentation * Using Empathy to Drive Design * Defining Product Strategy and Vision * Creating Roadmaps to Build Solutions * Delivering Value * Managing Value Stream Economics * Creating Innovation in the Value Stream

AGILE RELEASE PLANS: IN-HOUSE TRAINING While many Agile frameworks provide guidance on a focus on value and iterative development, many do not explain how that value is delivered to the customer. Release Plans have become an accepted and common practice to bridge the gap between the Product Vision and the Product Backlog (Agile requirements). In this course, you will be provided with an introduction to Agile and to Scrum, the most utilized Agile framework. You will also learn how the Vision, Roadmap, and Charter help to establish the Release Plan. The goal of this course is to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and techniques to build Release Plans to ensure you deliver the most value to your customers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN At the end of this program, you will be able to: * Recall the Scrum framework elements (roles, events, and artifacts) * Examine the benefits of Agile * Develop a Product Vision and Roadmap * Create an Agile Project Charter * Prepare a Release Plan * Write user stories to support a Product Backlog FOUNDATION CONCEPTS * Introduction to Scrum * Scrum Overview * Agile Benefits PRODUCT DEFINITION * Business Goals * Product Vision * Product Roadmap AGILE PROJECT CHARTER * Product Scope * Project Risks * Release Deadlines * Sprint Durations * Team Norms RELEASE PLANNING * Release Plan Process * Select Stories and a Release Date PRODUCT BACKLOG * User stories * Building the product backlog * Product Backlog Refinement * Transitioning to the Scrum Team

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategic planning enables an organisation to shape and guide its overall business objectives. Effective planning allows an organisation to create a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organisational vision and goals to achieve sustained competitive advantage or efficiency.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Strategy Execution Roadmap  * What is Strategy Execution Roadmap? *  Defining the goals for a roadmap  * Strategy and Vision * Strategy Road Map  * Execution Plan     

SAFE® FOR ARCHITECTS: IN-HOUSE TRAINING Enable continuous value flow by aligning technical strategy with business goals, communicating that strategy to development teams, and applying Agile architecture practices. Attendees can improve collaboration and alignment in a SAFe® Lean-Agile enterprise when they become a SAFe® 5 Architect. The SAFe® for Architects course prepares System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects to engage across the organization as effective leaders and change agents who collaboratively deliver architectural solutions. During this course, attendees will explore the roles, responsibilities, and mindset of Agile Architects, and appreciate how to align architecture with business value and drive continuous flow to large systems of systems while supporting SAFe® program execution. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN To perform the role of a SAFe® Architect, you should be able to: * Architect using SAFe® principles * Align architecture with business value * Develop and communicate architecture vision and intent * Plan architectural runway to enable delivery success * Architect for continuous delivery and Release on Demand * Lead and coach architects and team members during Program Increment (PI) Planning and execution * Provide leadership during a Lean-Agile transformation * Exemplifying Lean-Agile architecture * Architecting for DevOps and Release on Demand * Aligning architecture with business value * Developing Solution Vision, Solution Intent, and Roadmaps * Preparing architecture for Program Increment (PI) Planning * Coordinating architecture throughout PI Planning * Supporting Continuous Delivery during PI execution * Supporting new Strategic Themes and Value Streams * Leading as an architect during a Lean-Agile transformation

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro. Translating Strategy into Goals and Metrics  * Components of Strategy * Understanding the failure of strategies * Analysing you and your organisation mission, vision and strengths *  Introduction into Strategy Implementation * Understanding Performance Management System * Objectives and Measures * The importance of strategy planning 

SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER EXAM PREP: IN-HOUSE TRAINING This workshop prepares you for the Scrum.org PSPO™ I certification. A voucher for the exam and the access information you will need to take the exam will be provided to you via email after you have completed the course. NOTE: If you have participated in any of IIL's other Scrum workshops, you can bypass this program and focus on reading/studying the Scrum Guide and taking practice exams from Scrum.org The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. The Product Owner must be knowledgeable, available, and empowered to make decisions quickly in order for an Agile project to be successful. The Product Owner's key accountability is the Product Backlog. Managing, maintaining, and evolving the Product Backlog involves: * Establishing a clear vision that engages the Development Team and stakeholders * Clearly expressing Product Backlog items * Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve the vision and goals * Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all * Working with the Development Team throughout the project to create a product that fits the customer's need WHAT YOU WILL LEARN You'll learn how to: * Successfully prepare for the Scrum.org PSPO I exam * Identify the characteristics of a successful Product Owner * Create a powerful vision statement * Apply techniques to understand your customers and the market * Manage and engage stakeholders * Write effective user stories with acceptance criteria * Utilize techniques to visualize and prioritize the Product Backlog * Participate in the 5 Scrum events as the Product Owner * Understand the Product Owner's role in closing a Scrum project GETTING STARTED * Introductions * Workshop orientation * Exam prep preview FUNDAMENTALS RECAP * Agile Manifesto, values, and mindset * Product Owner characteristics * Good vs. great Product Owner PRODUCT OWNERSHIP * Product ownership * Project vision * Understand your customers and market * Personas * Stakeholder management and engagement THE PRODUCT BACKLOG * User Stories and Acceptance Criteria * Preparing User Stories for a Sprint * The Product Backlog * Visualizing the Product Backlog * Product Backlog Prioritization * Technical Debt SPRINT PLANNING AND DAILY STANDUPS * Sprint Planning * Planning Poker * Team Engagement * Daily Standups SPRINT REVIEW, RETROSPECTIVES, AND CLOSING * Sprint Reviews * Key Agile Patterns * Retrospectives * Closing the Project

SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER WORKSHOP: IN-HOUSE TRAINING The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. The Product Owner must be knowledgeable, available, and empowered to make decisions quickly in order for an Agile project to be successful. The Product Owner's key accountability is the Product Backlog. Managing, maintaining, and evolving the Product Backlog involves: * Establishing a clear Vision that engages the Development Team and stakeholders * Clearly expressing Product Backlog items * Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve the Vision and goals * Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all * Working with the Development Team throughout the project to create a product that fits the customer's needs The overall course goal is to support you in becoming an effective Product Owner. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN You'll learn how to: * Differentiate between poor, good, and great Product Owner attributes, and their impact on the team, product, stakeholders, and the organization * Engage your stakeholders by knowing your customers and market * Develop an effective and value-driven Product Backlog * Evaluate the Product Owner's role in Scrum's 5 events and team engagement FOUNDATION CONCEPTS * Agile foundation * Product owner role PRODUCT OWNERSHIP * Product ownership * Project vision * Understanding your customers and market * Personas * Stakeholder management and engagement THE PRODUCT BACKLOG * Epics and user stories * Preparing user stories for a sprint * The product backlog * Visualizing the product backlog * Product backlog prioritization * Technical debt SPRINT PLANNING AND DELIVERY * Sprint planning * The sprint SPRINT REVIEWS, RETROSPECTIVES, AND CLOSING * Sprint reviews * Key agile patterns * Retrospectives * Closing the project