Live Online Class: Product Discovery for Agile Teams – January 2020

Our first 2 classes sold out quickly so we’re iterating and opening up TWO cohorts in January 2020.

Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden have teamed up to create this brand new, hands-on, highly-interactive live online course. Class size is strictly limited to ensure high levels of attention for each student.

This course was specifically designed for those of you who cannot travel to a workshop or commit a full day or two of your time away from the office or home to attend a training.

We have taken the learnings we’ve developed from years of in-person teaching, training and client work and have broken them out into this 4-week course on Product Discovery for Agile Teams. We designed the course to introduce you to the concepts of product discovery, Lean UX and how they work within an Agile process and to get you to practice these techniques with your distributed team.

This course was designed for user experience (UX) designers, product managers, product owners, project managers, agile coaches and engineering leads interested in building a more customer-centric, evidence-driven agile product development process.

What will I learn?

• What is product discovery and how does it help my team design and build better products
• What is Lean UX and how to use it to improve your team’s agility
• How to frame work as a business problem
• How to use the Lean UX canvas to declare assumptions about your team’s work
• How to set good outcomes (OKRs) for your work
• How to build believable proto-personas and what to do with them
• How to write good, testable hypotheses
• How to design your first MVP
• How to build an experimentation and learning plan
• How to synthesize the findings of your experiment and determine next steps
• How to blend Lean Startup, Agile and Design Thinking
• How to run a successful dual-track scrum process
• Tools and techniques to make agile, design thinking and Lean UX work with remote and distributed teams

What do I get besides the class?

Every student, in addition to participating in the course live online with Josh and Jeff, will also get:

• All the videos and 1slides presented throughout the course
• Access to all the templates, examples and guides used during the course
• A dedicated Slack channel for your class cohort to discuss course assignments during class and maintain beyond class. Josh and Jeff will join this channel.
• Email access to Jeff and Josh throughout the course
• Digital copies of Jeff’s book, Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking and Josh’s book, Outcomes over Output
• All the benefits of learning from the comfort of your own home without airport hassles, travel time away from family and work and a reduced cost 🙂

How will it work?

• There will be one weekly session that runs 2 hours
• The course takes place over four weeks
• Start date for this cohort is January 14, 2020 (Jan 15, 2020 for Australia/New Zealand)
  
• Subsequent sessions will be on January 21, 28 and February 4 (Jan 22, 29 and Feb 5 for Australia/New Zealand)

IMPORTANT: There will be 2 time slots available for this cohort. You can only choose to be in ONE time slot. We cannot mix/match between time slots. We’ve designed one of the times to be convenient for North America/Europe and the other to be convenient for Australia & New Zealand.

• Session 1 will start at 12:00PM Eastern / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 21:30 IST (India)
  
• Session 2 will start at 9:00 AEDT (Australia) / 11:00 NZDT (New Zealand) on January 15, 2020 and 14:00 PST (San Francisco) / 17:00 EST (New York) / 23:00 CET (Madrid/Paris) on Jan 14, 2020

Time zones are hard! 🙂

• Each session will run 2 hours
• We will be using Zoom as our primary tool with exercises taking place within Zoom and also in other tools like Mural and Google Docs
• Each cohort will be divided into working groups
• Each working group will have an assignment to complete between sessions
• There will be videos to watch in advance of each session. We anticipate that, at most, this will be an hour of prep in advance of each class.
• Jeff and Josh will deliver the content together, live via Zoom during each of the weekly sessions
• Jeff and Josh will be available to each cohort via a Slack channel dedicated to the course and cohort during the 4-week course and beyond for an additional 3 months
• To participate successfully you will need a computer with a webcam, microphone, headphones and good internet connection

Who is teaching this course?

The instructors for this course are Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. Josh and Jeff are the co-authors of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book, Sense & Respond. Both Josh and Jeff are veteran designers, product managers and team leaders with a combined 45 years of experience between them building successful products, agile teams and organizations.

Still have questions? We’d love to hear them. Just ask. You can also leave a comment on this event and we will answer it publicly.