The world is changing rapidly: most companies are expected to screw up and die within the next two decades and traditional businesses will be forced to re-invent themselves. Innovation and agility are becoming more critical than ever and innovation leaders are in high demand to help prevent and fix failed transformations.
The Online Shiftup workshop is as four-session experience that teaches the principles and common practices of Lean-Agile business innovation, combining facilitator-led instruction, peer discussion, and team exercises. Shiftup workshops are part of the Shiftup Agility & Innovation Qualification Program, a community-driven learning path created by Jurgen Appelo that wants to get people to actively work together and to experiment, reflect and discuss.
What you will learn
The aim of our workshops is not to simply review dozens of practices and buzzwords but to take a higher perspective and achieve a foundational understanding of how all these tools fit into the larger picture of the innovative, evolving company as a family of business models with individual business life cycles. It is the perfect starting point for organizations aiming to achieve a coherent approach to a startup and scaleup culture within a corporate environment.
During the workshop, you will understand how each business model evolves from exploration and effectiveness to exploitation and efficiency. And you will learn how managers, leaders, designers, and developers need to organize their work differently to create an organization that can reinvent itself continuously and that can scale tremendously.
This workshop is for you if:
- You are a coach, consultant, team manager, business leader, product designer, product developer, product manager, project manager, human resource manager.
- You have just started our Qualification Program and want to have an intensive training experience to continue your self-development path.
- You want to achieve a foundational understanding of how innovation tools fit into the larger picture of your business life cycles.
- Your company aims to achieve a coherent approach to a startup and scaleup culture.
Sessions
The workshop will be held in 4 half-day sessions on 4 different days:
- Session 1: Monday, 2020-01-12, 14:00-17:30 (GMT+01:00)
- Session 2: Tuesday, 2020-01-14, 14:00-17:30 (GMT+01:00)
- Session 3: Wednesday, 2020-01-19, 14:00-17:30 (GMT+01:00)
- Session 4: Thursday, 2020-01-21, 14:00-17:30 (GMT+01:00)
Agenda of First Session
The Business Lifecycle: Change, Agility, Innovation, Value & Complexity, The 10 Business Lifecycle stages, Problem/Solution Fit, Product/Market Fit, Business/Market Fit.
Agenda of Second Session
The Business Quilt: The pieces of the Business Model Quilt, Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, Minimum Viable Products, Pivot, Patch & Persevere.
The Innovation Vortex: The seven streams of the Innovation Vortex, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Design Sprints, Lean Personas, Jobs To Be Done, Journey Maps.
Agenda of Third Session
Lean-Agile Principles: Agile Manifesto, Lean Thinking.
Purpose & Objectives: Product Vision, Hoshin Kanri, North Star Metrics, Objectives & Key Results.
Performance & Metrics: Velocity, Burn Rate, Queue Length, Flow Efficiency, Burn Charts, CFDs, Pirate Metrics.
Agenda of Fourth Session
The Innovation Funnel: Innovation Board, Innovation Accounting, Metered Funding.
Lean-Agile Mindset: Growth Mindset, Mental Models.
The Trainers
Molood Ceccarelli: CEO and founder of Remote Forever where she coaches distributed companies to adopt agile ways of working and helps agile companies to embrace remote work.
Holger Tewis: Agile Enterprise Coach helps organizations transform to Agile ways of working.
Molood and Holger are the creators of the Shiftup Workshop online exercises!
Certification
The Shiftup Business Agility & Innovation Leader Workshop teaches participants to apply Lean-Agile thinking to all areas of business innovation. That’s why attendees automatically qualify to become an ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF).
Please have in mind that you are not going to finish the Shiftup Qualification program by just attending the workshop. We measure when people have put in enough effort and then we reward them with an official qualification award, so you will have to continue progressing in our Agility & Innovation Qualification Program in order to get qualified.
Prerequisite
This is a foundational workshop, meaning that no knowledge or certifications of lean thinking, business agility or innovation are required. This is not an expert-level course. However, having some experience with new product development and business management (in any role) will make attendance easier.
The Workshop will be held in English.
