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Agile & Delivery

Product management, Scrum, technical leadership

Leadership and delivery training for product managers, Scrum masters and tech leads who need teams to ship reliably, not just plan well.

What the program covers

Sessions cover Agile and Scrum facilitation, product discovery, roadmapping, and the technical leadership skills needed to unblock engineering teams. Every cohort runs a live retrospective on their own delivery process.

Recent outcomes

  • A scale-up's product team redesigned its sprint cadence, cutting cycle time by 25%.
  • A newly promoted tech lead cohort built a shared technical-decision framework now used across teams.
  • A public-sector delivery team ran its first successful quarterly roadmap review after the program.

Technologies covered

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Miro
  • Linear

Program agenda

Agile fundamentals (Day 1)

  • Agile values & principles
  • Scrum roles
  • Cadence & ceremonies
  • Common anti-patterns

Product discovery (Day 2)

  • Discovery & user research
  • Prioritization
  • Writing user stories
  • Definition of Done

Roadmapping & technical leadership (Day 3)

  • Building a roadmap
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Unblocking engineering teams
  • Managing technical debt

Live retrospective (Day 4)

  • Facilitating a retrospective
  • Action plan
  • Measuring velocity
  • Continuous improvement

Deliverables

  • Quarterly roadmap
  • Prioritized backlog
  • Retrospective action plan
  • Certificate of completion

Commitments

  • Group of 6 to 15 people
  • No prerequisites
  • Duration: 4 days
  • On-site or remote format

Equipment & materials

  • Course materials + templates
  • Access to collaboration tools (Miro/Jira)
  • Whiteboard or virtual equivalent
  • Retrospective facilitation kit