Course curriculum

  • 1

    Pre-Work

    • Capabilities Assessment

    • Delivery Assessment
  • 2

    Part 1: Lean Agile Project Management Fundamentals

    • Delivery and Capabilities assessment debrief

    • Lean Agile Project management

    • Lean Agile and Kanban

    • Visual Management
  • 3

    Part 2: Visual management

    • Visual Management Examples

    • Identifying and visualising the Work and Workers

    • Defining and visualising your Workflow & Policies

    • Visualising Problems and Performance
  • 4

    Part 3: Co-ordinating execution beyond one team

    • Flight Levels

    • Cross-team coordination Kanban

    • Portfolio Level
  • 5

    Part 4: Prioritisation and Queue Management

    • Prioritisation methods: Cost of Delay, Shortest Job First, Risk Profiles

    • Creating and prioritising and replenishing the request queue
  • 6

    Part 5: Forecasting and Planning

    • Tools for probabilistic forecasting

    • Forecasting for a single item

    • Forecasting for multiple items

    • Improving system stability and predictability

  • 7

    Part 6: Improving Performance

    • Concepts: Capacity Management and the Utilisation Trap

    • Simulation

    • Limiting WIP to increase Quality, Predictability and Learning

    • Flow Efficiency and Team Topologies

  • 8

    Part 7: Creating feedback loops and managing Stakeholders

    • Daily Standup

    • Retrospectives

    • Reviews

    • Agile Governance

Instructors

Founder | Melbourne Australia

Ben Hogan

Ben is the founder of Freshwater Academy and an expert practitioner and trainer.

Ben teaches Product and Tech Strategy, OKRs, Wardley Mapping, Product Discovery, Lean, Agile and Kanban.

For more info connect with him on linked-in: www.linkedin.com/in/agileben/ and follow him on Twitter: @agileben