ZeroBlockers Framework
Scaling Product Teams, with Speed and Effectiveness
1 day
Who is this course for?
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This course is for Product Managers, UX Researchers, Designers, and Developers who want to improve their way of working.
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This course is for technical leaders who want to achieve better business results with lower overhead and less stress.
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This course is for business leaders who see software as an enabler of business goals and want to improve ROI.
Course Description
Empowering product teams goes against many of the established practices in modern organisations. We uncover the changes needed, why they are needed and how to you can achieve speed and quality at scale.
What you'll learn
- The Why Behind Our Work
- Explores the foundational reasons behind current work practices and how understanding these can guide meaningful change.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- The challenge of miscommunication, context-switching, and hand-offs, and how to overcome these with cross-functional teams.
- Structuring Teams for Autonomy
- Highlights the challenges of dependencies and provides strategies to design team structures that empower autonomy while maintaining clear accountability.
- Alignment Across Autonomous Teams
- The biggest risk of autonomous teams is misalignment. We share approaches for ensuring alignment and shared vision across multiple autonomous teams operating at scale.
- Flexible Governance Models
- Time and Cost are easy to measure, but you need a fixed scope. We investigate funding and governance models to accommodate flexible scopes and evolving priorities.
- Scaling Cross-Functional Teams
- Functional structures enjoy economies of scale. We examine alternative ways of scaling teams without reverting to functional silos.
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