Leadership Skills for Lean Product Developers

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If you have been given responsibility for driving lean product development throughout your organization, this workshop is for you. You will learn how to introduce lean thinking, how to sequence the implementation tasks, how to prepare the organization for change and how to maintain sponsorship from the highest levels of the organization on down. The specific learning objectives will be:

• Understanding the role of the lean product development leader
• Gain experience with the most important practices and tools of lean product development leadership
• Learn how to pull sponsorship in a growing organization
• Learn how to define effective goals and metrics for a lean product development transformation and finally
• Learn how to identify and support the key management sponsors who will make or break your organization's transformation to lean

The focus of this workshop will be upon how to create a solid tie between the value created through lean product development and your organization's strategic objectives. By doing so, you create powerful pull for lean product development from the senior leadership that makes the entire implementation process go more smoothly with more staying power. It will be very clear that lean is not "flavor of the month" but is a core competency that will help your organization achieve leadership in its field.