Course: Reduce costs
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Module 1: How to cut down the time to deliver value to customers
Understand Cycle Time and Lead Time definitions
Learning outcomes:
- Explain what Lead Time and Cycle Time are, and their significance in reducing costs
- Explain how to correctly measure Lead Time and Cycle Time
Reduce the Lead Time and Cycle Time to deliver value
Learning outcomes:
- Understand and practice proven methods that teams can use to actively reduce Lead Time and Cycle Time
- Measure Lead Time and Cycle Time to show improvements
Identify and reduce queues in the delivery process
Learning outcomes:
- Identify where queues exist in your delivery process, or are quickly forming
- Find ways to reduce or eliminate these queues
Module 2: How to identify and remove waste from delivery lifecycle
Understand the 7 types of waste often encountered in software
Learning outcomes:
- Know what types of waste occur in software initiatives
- Know why waste occurs, and when to eliminate it from the process
- Visualise the different waste categories for teams to begin eliminating it from their process
How to remove waste from the delivery lifecycle
Learning outcomes:
- Apply proactive measures to remove waste
- Make it the team's responsibility to identify and remove waste regularly
- Measure the amount of waste removed, and turn this into a monetary saving
How to calculate savings from waste remediation
Learning outcomes:
- How to measure the cost impact of waste items
- How to extrapolate such costs to get a total savings figure
- How to summarise results for an executive audience
Module 3: How to avoid doing low-value work
Identify and avoid unplanned and low-value work
Learning outcomes:
- Understand what "unplanned work" is, and how it occurs
- Know how to identify low-value or unplanned/unexpected work
- Make work more visible to be able to eliminate low-value work
Rapid prioritisation technique to de-prioritise low value work
Learning outcomes:
- Develop a prioritisation framework that prevents, or de-prioritises, low-value work
- Socialise the framework and process for getting work prioritised
- Bring all work through this framework
Prevent or minimise disruption from impacting prioritised work
Learning outcomes:
- Show the impact of unplanned or unexpected work to stakeholders
- Set expectations about how work gets prioritised and comes into the team
- Set capacity limits for the different categories/classes of work
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Why study with Incremental Excellence?
Incremental Excellence draws upon years of real world experience from having delivered successful outcomes and trained staff at leading organisations, some of which you can see on the right.
Our courses teach you how to solve real problems, and provides tools and methods you can begin using immediately. While most courses teach theory, we teach how you can apply this yourself.
Expert Instructor
This course has been built by an industry expert with decades of experience working in software teams and delivery optimisation.
Practical Approach
Our hands-on approach gives you the driving seat to learn how the activities work so that you can apply them immediately.
Unique Insights
This course gives you a way of thinking about the problem and situation that fundamentally changes how you will solve problems.
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