Your journey to dependable delivery

Are you responsible for delivery management and tired of software releases dragging on forever? Sick of your team burning the midnight oil just to hit deadlines? Look no further.

Or perhaps you are someone moving into delivery management? We're here to equip you with the mindset, skillset, and toolset to help your team deliver consistently on time, all without micromanaging or frazzling your co-workers.

Elevating your delivery game is easy with our highly curated delivery management course.

Spend just 2-3 hours a week over 4 weeks and watch your delivery process transform.

What you get

• A practical approach to predictable and sustainable delivery management.
• 4 weeks blended learning
• 10-12 hours of self-paced learning content
• 5 hours of live calls
• Course workbook and templates
• 2 expert trainers

Dates and times

Introduction call: 07 May 2024, 10 - 11 AM CEST

Consolidation Call #1: 14 May 2024 2024, 10 - 11 AM CEST

Consolidation Call #2: 21 May 2024 2024, 10 - 11 AM CEST

Consolidation Call #3: 28 May 2024, 10 - 11 AM CEST

Consolidation Call #4: 04 June 2024, 10 - 11 AM CEST

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Detailed Course Breakdown

Introduction Call

• Overview of the course objectives and structure.

Module 1: Crafting Team Structures and Processes

Vision & Mission

• Link team’s work to the company vision & mission.

Team Agreements

• Clarify roles and responsibilities, including connection to the process.
• Define communication channels and shared tools.
• Select and specify recurring ceremonies.

Stakeholders

• Establish communications with stakeholders (includes stakeholder mapping).

Bridge to Next Module

• How does work enter the backlog?

By the end of module 1, you will have tools to align on direction, responsibilities and core-processes, as well as clear communication channels, and stakeholder engagement strategies. You will learn to improve communication within your team, ensuring essential information remains readily accessible to facilitate self-organisation.

Module 2: Evidence-based Planning & Risk Resilience

Philosophy & Mindset

• Explore Agile & planning myths.
• Planning vs. commitment, Kanban vs Scrum.
• Introduce estimation philosophies.
• To ceremony or not to ceremony?
• Identify who will work on what?

High-level Planning

• Planning and Epic Breakdown.
• Understand the order of epics.
• Breaking down epics into headlines and details.
• Discuss planning horizon.

Iteration Planning

• Iteration Planning and Refinement.
• Cycle time.
• Comparing estimation approaches.

Risk Resilience

• Spikes and managing risks.
• RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)

By the end of module 2, you will understand the whys and the hows of multi-level planning including which amounts of detail are required at each level. You will also have several strategies to manage risk.

Module 3: Achieving Daily Delivery Fluency

Visualising Process

• Why visualise a process?
• Distinguish between different types of work.
• Understand the story/task as a unit of delivering value.
• Building your team’s agile board.
• Define Done, Ready, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Visualising who is working on what.
• Visualising blockers and bottlenecks.

Tracking

• Progress Tracking.
• Tracking blockers and reasons.

Reflection

• Retrospectives for continuous improvement.

By the end of module 3, you will be able to design your process and use visualisation to unblock work, understand progress and safeguard your team’s concentration by reducing distractions. You will know which data to collect to inform and inspire process improvements.

At the end of the course you will understand the key factors in enabling software delivery flow and be able to implement them in your team.