Data Dojo - Digital Literacy for Product Owners and Program Managers

Course length: 5 days
Location: Delivered on premise at your office, at a convenient third-party facility, or live online
Class size: 10 - 12 participants

Overview

The Hard Yards’ Data Dojo is your organization’s pathway for digital literacy. Gartner defines data literacy as the ability to read, write and communicate data in context, including an understanding of data sources and constructs, analytical methods and techniques applied – and the ability to describe the use case, application and resulting value. With this definition in mind the Data Dojo emphasizes “learning by doing” and leverages the client’s Agile software data to showcase commercial best practices of data understanding, data preparation, and modeling to enhance decision making.  

In this immersive 5-day dojo, participants will learn how enterprise architectures support the organization’s operational backbone and digital platform to enhance product development. Armed with this organizational understanding, the cohort will learn how data from Agile software tools can produce visualizations using business intelligence (BI) tools.  The participants will progress from understanding Little’s Law, the relationship of cycle time, throughput and work in progress, to building cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs), cycle time scatterplots, and forecasting the completion of features with Monte Carlo simulations.  The cohort will learn to export data from the organization’s Agile software toolset and import this data into BI tools in order to build dashboards for senior level decision makers.  During the final day of the Data Dojo, participants will present these CFDs, scatterplots, and other visualizations to senior leaders in addition to a prioritized backlog of work items to incorporate data driven decision making into all levels of the organization.

Learning Goals

• Learn how enterprise architectures support the organization’s operational backbone and digital platform to enhance product development

• Export data from the organization’s Agile software toolset and import this data into BI tools in order to build dashboards for senior level decision makers

• incorporate data driven decision making into all levels of the organization

Topics Covered

• Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs)

• Little’s Law

• Cycle Time Scatter Plots

• Forecasting Completing with Monte Carlo Simulations

• Creating roadmaps to build solutions

• Using BI tools for decision analysis and presentation

What Attendees Get

• Copy of Hard Yards Digital Playbook

• Copy of Digital Whiteboard and class exercises

• Recommended materials for further study, including:

  • DoD Data Strategy

  • "Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability," Vacanti, 2015

  • "A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility," Schwartz, 2017

Who will benefit?

The Digital Dojo training is designed for product management teams, product marketing managers, project managers, product owners, VP of product management, business owners, business analysts, UX professionals, and product leaders.

Prerequisites

Attendees of this course should be familiar with Agile principles and practices. A background in product or solution management is highly recommended. Those who have experience being a product manager, product marketer, product owner, business owner, or bringing products to market would benefit from this course.

Interested in a conversation?

Contact us to discuss how our team at Hard Yards can help you and your team get started with our training events.