Dedicated company training
Train the people who need to make the change together.
Private training for your organization’s leaders and teams. Build shared understanding, agree who needs to change what, and practice on the work your company actually does.
The company learning path
Prepare, apply, and extend the learning.
We have separated out the courses into four stages to help support the rollout of the change across your organization. Each stage is tailored to the audience required at different stages of the rollout.
Align the leaders
The sponsor, internal change lead, and leaders choosing the first customer scope.
Give the sponsor and the leadership team a shared understanding of the model and confirm their commitment. This is a big change, so every leader needs to know what it asks of them before a pilot starts. Choosing the pilot, its scope, and its measures is part of a Work with us engagement.
Equip the pilot team
The Stream Team and the practitioners supporting its work.
Teams need to be able to go from idea to satisfied customer, in a completely new way of working. These courses help the pilot team and its supporting practitioners learn the new ways of working, and practice on the work they are actually doing.
Continuous research
Keep customer learning close to the people making product decisions. Faster synthesis is useful only when the underlying research is trustworthy.
Module duration / 1 day
Continuous design
Test the assumptions behind a solution with the cheapest experiment available. Use faster prototyping to validate ideas before committing to build.
Module duration / 1 day
Continuous development
Understand how small changes, testing and safe releases turn faster coding into reliable delivery. A shared foundation for engineers and their product and design partners.
Module duration / 1 day
Working as a cross-functional team
Connect research, design, and development around a shared customer problem, with continuous learning and clear working agreements.
Module duration / 1 day
Lead the product teams
Product and functional leaders responsible for direction, team boundaries, and people development.
As you empower teams, the role of product and functional leaders changes. These courses help them understand their new responsibilities, and how to support the teams they lead.
Vision and strategy
Give faster-moving teams the strategic reasoning to make coherent choices, and a way to challenge the strategy with evidence.
Module duration / 1 day
Aligning structure to strategy
Design customer-facing ownership boundaries and the support around them so small teams can act without recurring cross-team waits.
Module duration / 1 day
Staffing and developing capability
Plan how smaller teams gain the skills and judgment they need. Connect staffing decisions with coaching, career development, and Enabling Team support.
Module duration / 1/2 day
Leading a product team of teams
Prepare product and functional leaders to set direction, develop people and improve the operating conditions around Stream Teams.
Module duration / 1 day
Scaling support
Senior practitioners and leaders of internal departments supporting teams across products.
Build craft support and shared services around demonstrated needs. Help Enabling Teams develop people’s capabilities and Internal Product Teams make common services easy to use.
Building an Enabling Team
Build the coaching support that helps Stream Teams develop their craft. Define what good looks like, close capability gaps in the work, and check that teams become more capable and independent.
Running an internal service as a product
Help Finance, HR, Legal, technology platforms and other shared services work as Internal Product Teams. Understand the teams you serve, make the common case self-service, and review adoption and reliability.