Empower your teams to scale up better and deliver faster
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What do we mean by "Empower Teams"?
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Starting from the bottom, or lowest level, many organisations make their way gradually up towards the top level. Where would you place your organisation on this spectrum?
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Module 1: Create a Community of Practice or Community of Excellence
Identify needed practices
Learning outcomes:
- Define the areas of expertise that require practices to be defined, and interested groups/parties
- Set up each practice with "learning areas" to focus improvement efforts
Aligned values and practices
Learning outcomes:
- How to set up each practice with their own defined values and priorities for excellence
- How to facilitate for inclusion and buy-in
Create guardrails
Learning outcomes:
- Provide teams with a minimal set of guardrails for areas they can safely experiment and innovate within
- Set expectation and goal-setting ideas to direct the practices
Module 2: Empowering teams to take greater ownership of delivery
How to Discover a project so you get the right outcome
Learning outcomes:
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Identify important stakeholders and their influence on the project's success
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Define and align on a successful outcome
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Align on the high level requirements to be satisfied
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Build a high-level backlog of work for the whole project
How to do high level estimation and release planning
Learning outcomes:
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Rapidly estimate the backlog of work, allowing for uncertainty and risk
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Rapidly draft a release plan
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Create a Sprint plan for multiple teams working on the same project
How to predict when a project might be completed
Learning outcomes:
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Create a long-term forecast to identify the likely range of end dates for the project
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Continuously adjust the forecast throughout the project based upon changing scope to show the impact on the forecast end dates
Module 3: Increase transparency, autonomy and performance
Setting performance improvement targets
Learning outcomes:
- Defining metrics and objectives for practice improvements
- Capturing data in a consistent and agreed manner for measuring improvements
Creating a dashboard to track practice and delivery progress
Learning outcomes:
- Setting up a CIO dashboard that quickly shows progress against objectives
- Measuring and visualising the right thing to achieve the best outcome
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Why study with Incremental Excellence?
At Incremental Excellence, we have insights and expertise drawn from decades of experience working in software development initiatives.
We have the perspective of both the delivery teams on the ground doing the hard work, as well as the management team trying to constantly strive for better outcomes.
Expert Instructor
This course has been built by an industry expert with decades of experience working in software teams and team optimisation.
Practical Approach
Our hands-on approach gives you the driving seat to learn how the activities work so that you can apply them immediately.
Unique Insights
This course gives you a way of thinking about the problem and situation that fundamentally changes how you will solve problems.
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