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Roman Pichler – Pichler Consulting Limited

This interactive, hands-on training course equips you with the essential lean concepts and techniques to complement agile product management practices. Product managers and product owners face a challenging job: They are tasked with creating a shared product vision and turning it into a successful product. Lean techniques help them do their work effectively by creating smooth flow of work, a process that is free of overburden, unnecessary variation, and waste.

Roman’s lean training course is also available for onsite delivery.

Lean Training for Product Owners
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Sorry, there aren’t any public courses scheduled right now. This course is available for onsite delivery. For more details, please call Roman at +44 (0) 7949 203772 or email him: roman.pichler@romanpichler.com.

Agenda

Introduction

  • Overview of lean thinking and agile software development
  • Why lean thinking matters to product managers and product owners

Value Streams

  • From customer needs to product delivery: The value stream
  • The value stream mapping technique
  • The current state value stream map

Eliminating Waste, Overburden and Variation

  • Discovering and removing waste (Muda)
  • Avoiding and resolving overburden (Muri)
  • Removing unnecessary variation (Mura)

Lean Process Characteristics

  • Push vs. pull
  • Kanban
  • One-piece flow and just-in-time
  • Takt time and cadence
  • Workload levelling (Heijunka)

The Future Value Stream

  • Creating the future state value stream map
  • Developing the improvement plan

Audience

Product managers, product owners, product marketers, senior managers.

Prerequisites

The participants should have working knowledge of an agile method such as Scrum.


About Your Trainer — Roman Pichler

Roman is an expert on agile product management with an outstanding track record in teaching and coaching product owners. He is the author of Agile Product Management with Scrum. He has applied lean practices since 2004.

Roman has nearly ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum rollouts in several companies. Roman has worked with product owners and agile product managers for a decade, and he has six years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners. Roman is a regular speaker at international conferences. He speaks English and German.

For attendee feedback, please view the testimonials. Please contact us at via email at training@romanpichler.com or call us at +44 (0) 7949 203772 to discuss how you can benefit from the training.