Product Teams
Ways of Working
1/2 day
Who is this course for?
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This course is for Product Teams who want to implement effective ways of working.
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This course is for Functional Managers transitioning to cross-functional leadership.
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This course is for Marketing Leads, Sales Leads and Customer Service Leads who are becoming more engaged in product development.
Course Description
What is your team? The role and practices of functional managers is changing. We describe the processes, practices and ceremonies for real cross-functional collaboration.
What you'll learn
- Cross-Functional Ways of Working
- Forget handoffs. In a cross-functional team, everyone works on the same thing at the same time.
- The Changing Role of Functional Managers
- Functional managers spend 53% of their time on admin work. Empowered teams reduce the admin burden so people can focus on higher-value strategic work.
- Continuous Forecasting
- We need to separate out forecasts from budgets and resource allocation. This results in higher quality, and less politicized forecasts.
- Strategic Planning
- Learn approaches for effective annual planning and goal setting.
- Setting Product Objectives
- Learn how to convert business objectives into product objectives for Stream Teams.
- Running Projects
- While we try to ensure that teams are autonomous, there are still times when projects are needed. Learn when and how to run projects to achieve business goals.
- Business Review
- Shift from status updates to metric reviews. Learn how to run effective weekly business reviews across all of the organization's teams.
- Tracking Work
- Approaches for rolling up the work of multiple teams into a single Kanban view.
- Cross Team Alignment
- When you have multiple autonomous teams, there is a risk of duplication of features and practices. Learn how to share knowledge and align practices.
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