Who it's for
Designed around these roles
Product owners, project managers, team leads and business stakeholders working with product or delivery teams.
Purpose
Use shorter delivery cycles to make progress and learn sooner.
Build a shared understanding of iterative delivery without turning ceremonies into the goal. Practise shaping work, making priorities explicit and using feedback to inform the next decision.
- Best for
- Product owners, project managers, team leads and business stakeholders working with product or delivery teams.
- Planned outputs
- 3 draft outputs for your team to review
- Topics
- 6 topics of learning and practice
- Formats
- Online, Onsite, Hybrid
- Engagement
- Standalone workshop or a module in a wider engagement
At a glance
Why teams take this workshop
Challenges this workshop addresses
Ceremonies without delivery clarity
Work too large to review usefully
Feedback arriving after decisions are locked
How the workshop works
From your challenge to working material
Follow how the topics build towards each planned output. Select a stage or a topic to step through it.
Learning outcomes
What your team leaves with
The outputs below are proposed workshop deliverables: drafts and working tools for your team to review and develop. Final scope is agreed before an engagement. Business results depend on subsequent decisions, implementation and context.
- Output 1A small, prioritised backlog with clear work boundaries.
- Output 2A simulated planning and review cycle with feedback decisions.
- Output 3A draft team working agreement and improvement experiment.
Workshop outline
Topics and the outputs they feed
The outline below shows the learning scope. Sequence, depth and timing are agreed during scoping.
| Session | Topic | Builds towards |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Iterative delivery and useful increments | A small, prioritised backlog with clear work boundaries. |
| 02 | Scrum and Kanban fundamentals | A small, prioritised backlog with clear work boundaries. |
| 03 | Roles, accountabilities and working agreements | A simulated planning and review cycle with feedback decisions. |
| 04 | Backlog refinement and prioritisation | A simulated planning and review cycle with feedback decisions. |
| 05 | Flow, dependencies and delivery visibility | A draft team working agreement and improvement experiment. |
| 06 | Reviews, retrospectives and adaptation | A draft team working agreement and improvement experiment. |
01
- Topic
- Iterative delivery and useful increments
- Builds towards
- A small, prioritised backlog with clear work boundaries.
02
- Topic
- Scrum and Kanban fundamentals
- Builds towards
- A small, prioritised backlog with clear work boundaries.
03
- Topic
- Roles, accountabilities and working agreements
- Builds towards
- A simulated planning and review cycle with feedback decisions.
04
- Topic
- Backlog refinement and prioritisation
- Builds towards
- A simulated planning and review cycle with feedback decisions.
05
- Topic
- Flow, dependencies and delivery visibility
- Builds towards
- A draft team working agreement and improvement experiment.
06
- Topic
- Reviews, retrospectives and adaptation
- Builds towards
- A draft team working agreement and improvement experiment.
Engagement paths
Two ways to run this workshop
Our team will discuss the team's operating constraints and experience before choosing the depth of frameworks and simulation.
Standalone workshop
Use a simulation-led workshop to practise delivery and feedback decisions. This is practical team education, not an accredited certification or examination course.
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