Managing Complex Requirements
The knowledge and skills to manage large, complex and fast-moving requirements
Price
In-house
Duration
1-Day
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Background and Purpose
Background
In today's fast-paced business world, managing large and complex requirements with impact and dependencies in multiple teams, can quickly overwhelm an organization and stifle progress. Having control, of an adaptable, flexible roadmap is essential to ensure that your organization can keep up with evolving customer needs, technological advances, and strategic shifts.
This training goes beyond theory by providing practical tools and methods to create, maintain, and update enterprise roadmaps. Participants will learn how to break down roadmaps into manageable parts, manage dependencies across teams, and integrate inputs from strategic initiatives, economic factors and customer feedback. The focus is on practical techniques and tools that can be immediately applied in your organization, making roadmaps not just a strategic guide but a dynamic, actionable tool for success.
Purpose
The purpose of this training is to equip technical business leaders as well as portfolio and product managers with practical tools and strategies to manage complex requirements using flexible, dynamic roadmaps.
The session is designed to provide participants with real-world mechanisms for handling cross-organizational dependencies, ensuring continuous integration of feedback, and keeping roadmaps aligned with both short-term actions and long-term goals. Participants will walk away with not only theoretical insights but also the hands-on tools they need to implement effective, adaptable roadmaps within their teams and organizations.
Learning Goals
The training will provide participants with the ability to
Implement practical tools for building and maintaining flexible roadmaps.
manage roadmap dependencies across organizational teams.
use strategic inputs, budget planning horizons and to shape and update the roadmap.
ensure timely integration of customer and development feedback.
separate roadmaps into timelines with short-term and long-term segments.
enable ongoing adaptation and alignment with business strategy.
set up clear and effective roadmap communication across teams.
set up feedback loops to regularly refine and adjust your roadmap.
Description and Agenda
This one-day training, which can be provided in English or German and be either remote or online, provides a comprehensive guide to managing large and complex requirements using flexible roadmaps. In a mix of theory, practice and reflection, participants will learn how to establish effective meeting structures and assign responsibilities for maintaining roadmaps.
The training covers roadmap decomposition, allowing for better alignment between long-term strategic goals and short-term execution. You’ll explore how to manage updates from strategic, development, and customer feedback, ensuring roadmaps remain dynamic and relevant. Emphasis will be placed on planning for and handling MVPs to deliver value incrementally - turning the roadmap into a tool for optimizing value generation. Additionally, you'll discover methods to synchronize roadmaps across different organizational levels, map them to business capabilities, and use Kanban to manage change.
By the end of the course, participants will have the practical tools needed to maintain adaptive roadmaps that align with both business strategy and execution.
Agenda:
Understanding the importance of flexible roadmaps in complex environments.
Meeting Structures & Responsibilities: Defining roles and establishing meeting cadences for effective roadmap maintenance.
Roadmap Decomposition: Techniques for breaking down roadmaps into actionable, manageable parts.
Synchronizing Roadmaps Across Levels: Aligning roadmaps at different levels of decomposition to ensure organizational coherence.
Managing Feedback: Integrating strategic, development, and customer feedback into the roadmap process.
Planning and Handling MVPs and Epics: Roadmapping for incremental value delivery through Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
Mapping Roadmaps to Business Capabilities: Ensuring roadmaps align with organizational capabilities
Using Kanban for Roadmap Management: Implementing Kanban to track progress, manage changes, and ensure continuous improvement.
