Innolution

This is a half-day (four hour) live instructor-led course that provides a robust foundation in core agile principles and illustrates how to apply them to generate outstanding company returns. 

There are many reasons companies don’t achieve their desired outcomes including: 

• Failing to allocate resources in an economically sensible way
• Assuming product-market fit without validating true customer needs and wants
• Scaling up without evidence that their business ideas/models are valid
• Prolonging product/service development times leading to delayed market entry
• Working on too many things at the same time by not balancing work in process with available capacity

In this course we show how to apply an agile mindset to avoid these types of failures by:

• Being data influenced and experiment driven
• Taking an iterative approach
• Being customer obsessed
• Having an entrepreneur’s sense of urgency for creative problem solving
• Knowing your resource constraints and obeying them
• Applying thoughtfully decisive prioritization
• Being skeptical of the status quo

This is not a course that focuses on the mechanics of using agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban (although both are briefly discussed). Rather, this course focuses on the foundational “why” that underlies all popular agile approaches. You’ll finish the course thinking like an agilist, better able to deal with the extreme uncertainty that comes with creating a business that develops and delivers products and services that delight customers.

This course is intended for startup entrepreneurs and their investors, corporate intrapreneurs / corporate innovators and their company leadership, as well as hands-on practitioners within their organizations that are involved in achieving outstanding returns.