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Playing Lean Product Development Workshop
Summary
If you want to deliver more of what your customer needs in a much shorter time, then the Playing Lean Product Development Workshop provides an interactive simulation that’s guaranteed to fast-track your learning.
Join us as we form teams and race to sell our online product to the mass market using the latest Playing Lean board game. Experience the life-like decision making, see the consequences of your decisions, juggle where to apply your limited resources and measure the impact on your sales. Practice the skills you’ll need in a no-risk, safe learning environment where ‘The Fastest Learner Wins!’.
Learning by doing is by far the fastest way to pick new skills and thinking patterns plus simultaneously gain the confidence that it will work for you, so that you can take them back to work and start applying them straight away!
Check out the list of some of the common anti-patterns in product development. If you answer “Yes! I have you seen these”, then this workshop is for you:
- Customers are asked in upfront market research, but you’re too busy to engage them again until the final product or feature is released months later
- Teams have to keep coding a feature that they know the customers no longer want, because no one in management wants to suffer the political backlash from saying “We got it wrong”
- An MVP in your organisation takes months (not days) till every bell and whistle is added to make it ‘perfect’
- ‘Experimenting’ means testing to find the prettiest mock-ups and design before anything is built
- The impact of the feature is rarely measured or reported because you’re too busy getting through the long list of features waiting in the backlog
- There are more fictitious customer personas on the wall than there are actual customers in your beta group
Playing Lean is serious professional development, but it is also seriously fun! Bring yourself or a team from your business to learn and play together!
Price: $1,100 (incl GST) per attendee
Workshop Duration: 1 Day (9:00am – 5:00pm)
Number of Participants: Minimum 4 to Maxiumum 24 per Workshop
(Minimum of 4 persons per board game, or work in pairs which is up to 8 persons per game)
About Your Trainer
Becci Watson is one of a handful of people in Australia that is a certified Playing Lean Game Facilitators who has been trained by the vendor of the game who is based in Europe.
In Australia, she has led the Lean transformation of digital programs with more than eight teams with budgets exceeding $20 million.
Becci brings her experience having trained Agile Coaches, Project Managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters in how to practically apply the Lean Product Development principles covered in this workshop.
Learning Objectives
The Playing Lean Product Development Workshop participants will:
- Experience the Return on Investment (ROI) differences when making trade-offs between allocating resources to build product Vs. getting customer feedback
- Discover the various types of experiments to use at the different stages of product development
- Review a Lean Product Development Experiment Canvas
- See how the Lean Startup stages integrate with the Scrum Framework
- Understand the ideal conditions and potential obstacles for implementing an experiment based learning culture in an organisation
- Consider practical ways to obtain customer feedback loops throughout the product development lifecycle
Topics Covered
The following topics from The Lean Start-Up book are explored:
- Experiment Driven Lean Product Development
- Customer Feedback Loops
- Customer Value vs Waste
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Feedback Loop Stages: Build-Measure-Learn
- Options for Adjustments: Pivot or Persevere
- Validated Learning by frequent scientific experiments
- Conditions for Practicing Experimentation
- Obsticles for Practicing Experimenation
What Attendees Get
Workshop participants receive:
- The Lean Startup book by Eric Ries in .PDF format
- Product Development Canvas template
- Certificate of Attendance. Attendees must attend the full day to qualify for the certificate.
Prerequsites
There are no curriculum prerequisites to attend the Playing Lean Product Development Workshop.
It is not essential, (though it is recommended) that you read the book The Lean Product Development by Eric Ries, prior to attending the workshop. If you are unable to do so, the workshop is designed to cater for those starting with no knowledge of lean product development who want the fast-track, so you will quickly pick it up as we play the board game and then have the opportunity to reinforce these principles throughout the day.
Who Will Benefit?
People that are directly involved with creating or developing new products, particularly online like:
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Digital
- eCommerce
- Software Based
- Website Development
- Portal Development
People who will benefit from the Playing Lean Product Development Workshop are typically those that identify with job titles such as:
- Agile Coaches
- Agile Delivery Managers
- Agile Project/Program/Portfolio Managers
- CX Designers
- Digital Managers
- Digital Marketers
- eCommerce Managers
- Entrepreneurs starting a new business
- Innovation Managers
- IT Project Managers
- Iteration Manages
- Lean Coaches
- Marketing Operations
- Product Developers
- Product Development Consultants
- Product General Managers
- Produc Managers
- Product Owners
- Projject Management Office (PMO) Managers
- Release Train Engineers
- Scrum Masters
- Software Development Team Leaders/Managers
- UX Designers
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