Improve your team's rate of delivery by increasing flow
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Module 1: How to break down and prioritise work by value
How to break down projects and prioritise work by value
Learning outcomes:
- How to split a project into smaller components and prioritise higher value components
- How to prioritise work by measuring and comparing both value and size
- Explain to stakeholders how their projects can be broken down into its valuable components for successful prioritisation
Break down User Stories by value
Learning outcomes:
- How to split Epics and User Stories along different aspects to identify the most value
- Help Product Owners choose more valuable User Stories
- Deprioritise low value work and clear out backlogs. Reduce inventory waste
Module 2: How to move from Scrum to Kanban AND deliver more value
Workshop: Setup Kanban for Flow optimisation
Learning outcomes:
- Identify work classes and the urgency of each
- Decide which ceremonies are needed to deliver excellent outcomes
- Setup Kanban board for maximum throughput and identify flow inefficiencies
- How to measure and improve Flow Efficiency of work items
Define work types that deliver value and review the backlog
- Define only work types that deliver value
- Convert backlog into new work types and eliminate non-valuable backlog items
- Communicate work types with stakeholders for future refinement and planning
Module 3: How to cut down the time to deliver value to customers
Understand Cycle Time and Lead Time
Learning outcomes:
- Explain what Lead Time and Cycle Time are, and their significance in reducing costs
- Explain how to correctly measure Lead Time and Cycle Time
Reduce Lead Time and Cycle Time
Learning outcomes:
- Explain key methods that Agile teams can employ to actively reduce Lead Time and Cycle Time
- Measure and report savings from automation and simplification of processes
Identify and manage queues
Learning outcomes:
- Identify where queues are forming in your delivery process
- Find ways to reduce or eliminate these queues
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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 delivery 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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