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Collaboration Toolkit

Collaboration Toolkit

How Product Teams can make an impact and deliver awesome outcomes

Abstract

Collaboration can be a challenge, but it’s a game-changer for successful product development.

Whether you’re defining the product or delivering it, you need to bring your team and stakeholders closer. You should be able to manage techniques focused on bridging communication gaps and ensuring your work adds value.

The Collaboration Toolkit Workshop, designed and led by Jenny Martin, equips you with practical techniques for every step of the product journey. Exploring real-life scenarios and examples throughout the product life cycle will provide you valuable insights into how to harness a group’s collective intelligence and drive successful product outcomes.

Target audience

This workshop is designed for Product Managers, Product Owners and whoever needs to improve collaboration within a team or organization.

Professionals with intermediate/advanced levels of experience will gain the skills and confidence to expertly guide the product delivery process from start to finish, acting as a catalyst for collaboration in their organisation.

This workshop is useful for:

  • Product Managers and Product Owners (whether with this job title or not) who want to improve the way they communicate with team and stakeholders
  • Head of Product or Product Lead who want to evolve their organization
  • Marketing Managers, Customer Success Managers or any other type of professional who needs to design and plan a product
  • Agile Coaches
  • Anyone interested in levelling up their facilitation skills.

To get the most out of this course, it is recommended to have some experience in a product ownership role (two years+ of experience are beneficial) so that participants can reflect on real examples and challenges.

Program

This workshop will provide you with a whole toolkit of collaborative product development techniques. It will cover the principles behind designing and structuring effective workshops.

You will learn how to facilitate a group so they all contribute to their fullest, leveraging the team’s collective intelligence.

The workshop is structured around the concepts of Product Delivery Process, Product Definition, Continuous Product Discovery and Iterative Delivery.
As we enter each phase, we will briefly revisit key concepts and best practices to give context to the collaborative techniques and practices that will be applied.

There will be opportunities to share experiences and reflect on how these techniques can be applied to solve challenges and avoid typical product development pitfalls.

The Collaboration Toolkit Workshop is structured in 5 sessions delivered remotely in 3.5 hours each.

Agenda

Module 1: Collaboration and Product Definition

  • How to structure, design and facilitate any workshop for maximum impact
  • Inclusive collaboration: making the most of a varied and diverse group of people
  • Aligning to one vision: product vision, lean canvas and metrics

Module 2: Exploring Problems and Prioritising Opportunities

  • Principles of continuous discovery and design thinking
  • Discovering and defining problems
  • Planning horizons of value through outcome-based planning

Module 3: Exploring and validating solutions

  • Exploring solutions through problem statements and Impact Mapping
  • Creating hypothesis – Feedback and assumption mapping
  • Experiments, solutions and understanding the context

Module 4: Innovate and Design

  • Design sprint: key principles and getting started
  • Design sprint: how-to, simulations, real-world cases, walkthrough

Module 5: Starting small and Specifying collaboratively

  • Iterative delivery and hunting the value
  • Navigating complexity with OOPSI
  • Building a shared understanding and wrap-up.

Learning objectives

If you want to accelerate product delivery, align teams towards a vision and purpose and build products that customers love, the Collaboration Toolkit is what you need.

You should join Kenny Martin and her workshop if you want to:

  • Enhance collaborative techniques to redefine product vision and definition
  • Boost confidence in designing and facilitating workshops aimed at deepening understanding of customer problems
  • Generate outcome-based product roadmaps through effective planning and strategy
  • Conduct design sprints to prototype and validate ideas for innovation and problem-solving
  • Foster team alignment towards an MVP through optimized feedback loops and continuous learning.

Expect to get your hands dirty – How does it work

The workshop will be highly engaging, hands-on and fun.
Each topic will be introduced so that there will be a common ground for discussion, and making sure that the majority of content is practical and hands-on.

Each collaborative technique will be practised on Miro, and participants will retain access to the templates to use and customise for their own workshops after the course.
Participants will get lots of opportunities to practice the techniques, ask questions and share their experiences with the group. In some cases, participants will work together in small groups.

The workshop will keep its interactive and hands-on spirit despite being online.
This is why we require that all participants keep their webcam on for the whole workshop duration: this will enhance the quality of the communication and the workshop as a whole.
You won’t be sitting at your desk watching slides and videos, and you’ll be engaged in real-time activities for the majority of the time… as if we were in a real classroom!

Why should you buy a ticket

This highly participatory workshop equips participants with the knowledge and techniques to accelerate product delivery, align teams towards a vision and purpose and build products that customers love.

Come and experience:

  • Strategic Toolkit Mastery: Gain practical techniques to foster collaboration, not just blindly apply them. Learn when and how to use these tools effectively, depending on your working context.
  • Achieve Clear Goals Together: You’ll align with your team, engineers, and stakeholders, fostering autonomy and making decisions that drive results.
  • Less Rework, More Customer Happiness: Effective collaboration ensures everyone understands the project, leading to happier customers and a smoother process.
  • Unleash Creativity: Collaboration fuels innovation, allowing you to explore creative solutions you might not have considered otherwise.

F.A.Q.

Will I get any materials to take away once the workshop is over?
You’ll get access to a portfolio of free Miro templates with guidelines about how to run each workshop.

What level of expertise is required to join the workshop?
To get the most out of this course, you should have some experience in the product owner role (recommended two years+) so that you can reflect on real examples and challenges.

Is there anything I must do before I buy a ticket for this online workshop?
If you have a computer/tablet, a stable connection (at least 20 Mbps in download and 10 Mbps in upload), earphones, a microphone, and a webcam, then you’re ready to join the workshop.
You’ll get detailed information on what tools we’ll be using and how to get ready a couple of weeks prior to the workshop.
Check out your connection’s speed.
The workshop will keep its highly interactive and hands-on spirit despite being online. This is why we require that all participants keep their webcam on for the whole duration of the workshop: this will enhance the quality of the communication and of the workshop as a whole.

About the workshop

Language: English.
Laptop: Yes, check out the FAQ section.
Maximum number of attendees: 12 participants.
Tools and Workstation: The workshop will take place online and in live streaming by using digital tools. You’ll get detailed information on how to join the online workshop, how to get ready for it and how it will work once the workshop will be confirmed.
It is highly recommended that each participant joins the workshop from their own workstation: not sharing one same laptop and/or room with other people will improve the remote experience.

Testimonials…

Jenny Martin

Jenny Martin è una formatrice e facilitatrice in ambito di tecniche e metodi di collaborazione agile e sviluppo di prodotto all'interno di team high-performing.
Veder prosperare team e individui è ciò che appassiona Jenny, ossia quando intelligenza collettiva ed esperienze diverse si uniscono per raggiungere
cose fantastiche e quando i punti di forza individuali vengono valorizzati al meglio.

Blog

The power of effective collaboration: La nostra intervista con Jenny Martin.

Video

Small Talk: una chiacchierata informale con Jenny Martin (YouTubeSpotify).

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