There are a number of costs associated with the production of software products and solutions.  A responsible management team is always looking at ways of reducing costs.

It is possible to reduce costs by eliminating time and effort spent doing wasteful activities, or repetitious activities, or low-value work, or unplanned work.

By eliminating these activities and work effort, we have effectively reduced the cost to build software, because we are now delivering more value in the same time period.  In other words, we are getting through more of the valuable work in the same amount of effort.

This course teaches how to identify and eliminate waste, and low-value work, so that teams are only focussing their efforts on the most valuable work.  The work and the waste that is eliminated can be measured, and given an estimated cost.  This estimated cost is the savings resulting from having eliminated it.

This course is for people working in Agile software development, whether Scrum or Kanban or otherwise, and who needs to demonstrate performance improvements.

Types of roles that should attend this course include; Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Agile Project Managers, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Iteration Managers, and so on. 

This course is open to any members of an Agile team, and also to managers who need to better understand delivery challenges and how to overcome them.

This course is suitable for people anywhere from beginner to advanced skills.  It teaches techniques for making rapid improvements, some of which are easy to implement and some require greater influence.

Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches are asked to make demonstrable improvements to Agile teams, and this course teaches some of the best techniques for making measurable, and noticeable,  improvements.

MODULE 1

Reducing Cycle Time and Lead Time

• How to correctly measure Cycle Time and Lead Time
• How to report cost savings from Cycle Time and Lead Time reduction

MODULE 2

Remove waste

• How to identify activities contributing to waste
• The 7 different types of waste in software development
• How to create an action plan to proactively remove waste

MODULE 3

Manage low-value work

• How to identify low-value and disruptive work impacting your team
• How to say no to low-value and disruptive work

This course teaches how to make work items of a similar size, and small size, so that the cost to deliver value to customers is greatly reduced:

1.  Lead Time and Cycle Time is reduced, which is a measurable performance improvement that represents cost reductions and reduced time to deliver value to customers.

The course also teaches how to identify and remove wasteful activities and delays, which also results in cost savings:

2.  A financial amount can be attributed to the impact of the wasteful activity, and this amount represents cost savings.

Finally, the course teaches how to avoid doing work that doesn't add value.  This results in a cost saving by avoiding doing unnecessary work:

3. A financial amount can be attributed to the avoided cost of doing the low-value work, which is also measurable as a cost saving.