New Engineering Manager - Creating an Agile culture in digital product development

When it comes to digital product development methodologies, there are many methodologies. Agile development and testing, Scrum, Kanban, product management, OKR and many more. This course gives a comprehensive overview of all of these.

• The first block will look at agile thinking, with a focus on how the engineering manager is present in the life of each team in different ceremonies.
• The second part moves on, with the main focus on values and culture based on effective and predictable collaboration. This provides the basis for hiring the right people in a company and for consistently assessing their development and encouraging them to perform better.
• In the third part, the product strategy is a very important part of all this, a kind of northern lights for the team. It sets the direction that we work and strive for together.
• The fourth part focuses on different feedback techniques. It is very important for building and maintaining a team that there is always direct communication between managers and colleagues. See needs and be able to respond to any problems that may arise.
• Finally, in the fifth part, participants will be given the right tools and useful techniques for structured communication.

The course is primarily recommended for Engineering managers or candidates for this position, but useful knowledge can be gained by practicing Scrum Masters, Product managers, Product owners, and HR professionals.

All the threads come together

• Agile, product strategy, people management and HR processes all converge at some point.

Agile mindset and processes

• Setting a basic daily / weekly rhythm
• Building an Agile Mindset
• Establish sprints
• Introduction of ceremonies (planning, standup, demo, retrospective)
• Backlog management

People management with modern foundations, values and culture

• Establishing organisational values and laying the foundations of culture
• How do I hire people?
• Feedback sessions and how they are conducted in detail
• How do we evaluate performance?
• How do we facilitate development?
• How do we incentivise greater performance?
• When do we let someone go?

Strategic design of the product

There is a sense of security and a sense of mission when everyone can see what they are working towards:

• Develop a product strategy according to OKR methodology, annual and quarterly
• Approval of strategy
• Communication and publication of the strategy
• Communicate and communicate the strategy
• Communicate and communicate the strategy and communicate its communication and communication of the strategy

Establishment of feedback loops

Feedback loop at three levels

• Every two weeks the team during the retrospective
• Every 2-4 weeks informally with all team members
• Formal feedback every 3 months according to the values
• Follow-up of feedback

Structured communication and orderly conditions

• Structured communication tools, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive
• How to design or re-design the office? What else is needed?
• How to prepare for remote working?

To successfully and efficiently complete the course, you need to have a basic knowledge of technology and business.