Enhance your team's delivery capabilities

Design for Flow is a structured 4-week online course designed to help teams improve their delivery processes by applying agile methodologies. This programme focuses on building a shared understanding of agile principles, enhancing communication, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Features

Ideal For: Agile teams, delivery managers, and organisations seeking to refine their delivery processes and embrace agile methodologies.

What you get: A practical approach to predictable and sustainable delivery management.
- Blended learning: 4 weeks with 10-12 hours of self-paced learning content
- Weekly Live Sessions: Engage in weekly interactive sessions that promote a deeper understanding of the practices.
- Expert Facilitation: Benefit from guidance provided by experienced agile coaches.
- Material: Course workbook and templates

More Information

Who is it for?

You will benefit the most from this course if you work in software and you are:

An individual who needs to support their team with delivery management (e.g. tech lead or product manager)

A person transitioning to delivery management
Teams without a dedicated delivery manager that still want to get stuff done
Organizations seeking to refine their delivery processes

What will you learn?

You will learn how to

Design a delivery process to protect the team’s focus and minimise distractions
Improve communication and make sure key information is constantly available to the team so that they can self organise.
Analyse bottlenecks and distractions to drive meaningful change
Add lean management methods to your process design

How will this help you?

You struggle with

Sludge and slow pace
Focus dilutors
Missing skills / fragility skill distribution
Stagnation / We've always done it this way / lack of learning culture / lack of continuous improvement

If you want to

Set up a new team delivery process
Improve your current delivery process

How is it delivered?

Online, cohort-based learning with live sessions and collaborative exercises.
The course is available in English.

You will need a high-speed internet connection and the ability to connect to Zoom. It is recommended you use the native Zoom client (i.e. not the web client). As there are group activities, it is recommended you have a webcam and microphone to fully benefit from the discussions and exercises.

How many people can take part?

There is no limit to the number of participants.

Can you run this training course for my organization?

Of course! We can run this course exclusively for members of your organisation.

Please get in touch on hello@thetravellingcoach.com to discuss details.

Course Outline

The course consists of two elements: content and group consolidation calls. The content includes theory, practical exercises to try and templates to use with your team.

Attend the weekly group consolidation call to strengthen your learning, share your insights and dive deeper into a particular topic.

DETAILED BREAKDOWN

Introduction Call

Overview of the course objectives and structure.

Module 1: Crafting Team Structures and Processes

Vision & Mission

Define team vision & mission.
Link team’s work to the company vision & mission.

Team Agreements

Clarify roles and responsibilities, including connection to the process.
Define communication channels and shared tools.
Select and specify recurring ceremonies.

Stakeholders

Establish communications with stakeholders (includes stakeholder mapping).

By the end of module 1, you will have tools to align on direction, responsibilities and core-processes, as well as clear communication channels, and stakeholder engagement strategies. You will learn to improve communication within your team, ensuring essential information remains readily accessible to facilitate self-organisation.

Module 2: Evidence-based Planning & Risk Resilience

Philosophy & Mindset

Explore Agile & planning myths.
Planning vs. commitment, Kanban vs Scrum.
Introduce estimation philosophies.
To ceremony or not to ceremony?
Identify who will work on what?

High-level Planning

Planning and Epic Breakdown.
Understand the order of epics.
Breaking down epics into headlines and details.
Discuss planning horizon.

Iteration Planning

Iteration Planning and Refinement.

Cycle time.
Comparing estimation approaches.

Risk Resilience

Spikes and managing risks.
RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)

By the end of module 2, you will understand the whys and the hows of multi-level planning including which amounts of detail are required at each level. You will also have several strategies to manage risk.

Module 3: Achieving Daily Delivery Flow

Visualising Process

Why visualise a process?
Distinguish between different types of work.
Understand the story/task as a unit of delivering value.
Building your team’s agile board.
Define Done, Ready, and Acceptance Criteria.
Visualising who is working on what.
Visualising blockers and bottlenecks.

Tracking

Progress Tracking.
Tracking blockers and reasons.

Reflection

Retrospectives for continuous improvement.

By the end of module 3, you will be able to design your process and use visualisation to unblock work, understand progress and safeguard your team’s concentration by reducing distractions. You will know which data to collect to inform and inspire process improvements.

At the end of the course you will understand the key factors in enabling software delivery flow and be able to implement them in your team.