TRAINING

The Holistic Product Discovery Bootcamp

As a product team, you live and breathe your product. One of the hardest questions is: “Will the stuff we are working on right now be successful?”

One of the biggest problems with software development is that a great deal of what is built does not reach the intended impact. The most obvious reason for this is that one rarely focuses on building a product / service that meets the business goals, benefits from the technology and provides a desired user experience at the same time. Scrum, XP, Kanban, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and the like are all necessary to build a product / service correctly. Product Discovery is a collection of frameworks and tools that ensure that we also build the right product, with the least possible waste.

Viability, desirability and feasibility can be achieved at the same time.

During this training, you will get tools, tactics, principles, and frameworks that you can use to sleep better at night. After the training, you will have more structure in how you run Product Discovery initiatives, ensuring that you’re creating something that customers love, makes money, and is feasible to build.

This training

This training focuses on Discovery, the steps that you take with your team to discover what’s the right product for your customers and your business, as well as the best way to build it.

The training will go through these topics:

Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Principles to successfully run Product Discovery initiatives
A simple Product Discovery framework that you can use during your everyday work
Simple Playbooks (step-by-step processes) that you can apply in your team
How to ensure that you’re on the right track
How to connect Discovery and Delivery
Case studies from large-scale organizations and startups, both software and hardware
How to best collaborate in your Discovery

Who this training is for

The training is primarily tailored to product owners or product managers who create tech products. However, if you’ve another role in a product team, you will receive value from the course as well. The training is especially useful if you haven’t done that much structured Product Discovery in the past. You have heard the term, read some articles, and you are curious to get started.

Outcomes of the training

The outcome of the training is that you will have applied tools, tactics and methods to start running structured Product Discovery in your team or organization the minute you are back at work. You will learn:

How to tackle risks up-front and continuously working with product risks
Gathering insights through user interviews
Techniques to distill and structure your insights
Brainstorming how you will ”delight” customers and end-users
Tactics to assess business value
Rapid prototyping
Risk testing and validation methods
What to focus on
Aligning on the right problems to solve for customers and end-users
Connecting Discovery to Business and Product strategy
Slicing Discovery to small increments
Who to collaborate with
Roles in successful Product Discovery constellations
Collaboration techniques
Empowered teams
How to fit Product Discovery into your ways-of-working
Connecting Discovery and Delivery
Using Discovery in Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and other collaboration techniques
Tactical, operational vs. strategic product discovery

Training experience

This is what a participants have to say about the training:

“Inspiring, very hands-on and well spent money! Demystified the term Discovery and made it understandable for me. It is not about one big bang thing to do, but many small things in your everyday work. Most valuable – I came out with a feeling that I finally knew how to start this thing with my team!” – Jenny Halleni, Swedbank

Uniqueness

This training stands out by strongly connecting mindsets and principles with practice.

Training setup

This is a two to three days long in-person training, and can be run as four to five half-days remotely.