Lean Launch

Whether Launching a Project, Release Train or a Release, all need to start right. With Agility Lean Launch, we teach you the black art of how to launch Agile increments right.

Audience

Project & Program Managers, Team managers, Architects, Change Agents, Business Analysts, Technology Leads and Business Owners.

 

Summary

In this one-day course, explains how to launch a release right. The course demystifies how to bring together Customer Centred Design, Scrum Planning and SAFe Program Increment planning, so that you can successfully deliver at scale and in meaningful increments.

Whilst the SAFe courses explain the framework and the theory;  this is the first course to explain in detail how to be Release or Train ready. Agility Partners is proud to offer the only course available that explains how to materially turn your business ideas into reality by mobilising them onto a Release Train or Release Cadence. This course guides participants thru a practical usable pattern, that leveraging Lean Startup, Customer Centred Design (CCD), Value Stream Mapping and Agile Product Planning to be delivery ready.

 

With Lean Launch your release will be groomed to optimise customer value, ensure alignment with business and technology and support iterative delivery at scale. You will be able to articulate the business and technology goals and deliverables such that you can launch your SAFe Release Trains, and run your Program Increment sessions successfully.

 

Curriculum

AM

  • Introduction
  • Lean Principles and Values
  • Lean Canvas
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Design Thinking Principles

PM

  • Lean Launch
  • Practical Simulation
  • SAFe Program Increment Readiness

You will learn

  • How to successfully mobilise initiatives in an Agile way (projects or incremental releases)
  • The basics of Lean Startups
  • Application of Design Thinking to release planning
  • How to Groom the Backlog  and define your Product Release
  • Being Release and Release Train Ready
  • Practical tools and techniques for Defining the business problem and the technical solution to be delivered.

 

Whats included

  • A full days training with a certified trainer & highly experienced Agile practitioner
  • Lean Launch Accelerator Templates for use back in your workplace
  • A bound workbook, and an electronic copy of the course materials.
  • Light refreshments (morning tea, afternoon tea, and coffee)
  • Story Cards to get you going back at the office.

 

The course establishes sound Agile, Lean & Design Thinking techniques and uses examples from our Trainers practical experience to make theory real. The concepts taught are reinforced through interactive practical simulations and students are able to immediately apply the Agility Lean Launch Techniques back at their workplace.