Strategic Policy Deployment (SPD) is intended to help an organization to:

Ø  focus on a shared goal

Ø  Involve all leaders in planning to achieve that goal

Ø  Hold participants accountable for achieving the goal

Learning objectives

Understand the key concepts of Strategic Policy Deployment, and can start to use the templates to start using SPD to manage the objectives in work after the training. 

Who should attend

This 2-day course is designed for managers and practitioners to better plan their process improvement works so that the process improvement is aligned with the organization business objectives.

Methodology:

Workshop approach:

Short concept presentations and hands on exercises on the customer organization practices

Course outline

Day 1

-  industry experience sharing and lesson learned

Share our experience supporting and leading solution development to product management transition in other similar companies. These examples and real life practices will enable clear understanding of what required and expected , while shaping the product management role and designing the new product development lifecycle.

We will present Danske Bank (internal IT with external supporting services), Credit Swiss (internal IT) and Bank Leumi (internal IT with external supporting services) practices, journey, SPDs and the lessons learned from the process

Take away
at the end of this part, the Organization will have its set of propriety operational objectives

Second half day – developing the performance controls and implementation roadmap

Objectives
based on the Organization strategic and operational set of goals and objectives we will develop the relevant KPIs and how to monitor and report progress of the transition journey

Content
we will start this part of the day with presentation of suggested set of KPIs that may fit the Organization based on the inputs from last days inputs of strategic and operational goals. After a short presentation we will conduct round tables in which we will develop a propriety set of KPIs for the Organization

Take away
What was good in their journey and what went wrong
what an Organization should do to succeed in the process what is right for the Organization

SPD introduction and walkthrough of product based company example

Objectives
We will develop the strategic goals from this process and organizational change (e.g. higher quality, more stable releases and increase of return on development effort)

Content
Presentation of suggested set of business objectives and goals that may fit and an organization transitioning to product management. After a short presentation we will conduct round table discussion in which we will develop the organization propriety set on objectives

Take away
at the end of this part, the Organization  will have its set of propriety strategic objectives

Day 2

Develop the Organization operational goals from the new organization and product managers

Objectives
based on the Organization’s understanding and development of strategic set of goals and objectives we will develop the operational goals 
We will start this part of the day with presentation of suggested set of operational objectives and goals that may fit the Organization and an organization transitioning to product management, based on the inputs from last day strategic goals. After a short presentation we will conduct round tables in which we will develop a propriety set of operational objectives