Innovative products and services change lives, and having the right innovative process creates an competitive advantage. Ultimately, innovation is about one thing: problem solving.
As an agile problem solver, you'll need to expand your critical thinking skills to address the key sources of risk in developing best solutions for your new products and business lines. The Problem-solving techniques covered begin with problem definition, beginning with job descriptions and applying the right soft skills to enhance requirements gathering. This ensures you're targeting a good problem to solve, and that you understand the business model. The course then moves on to practices such as "brainstorm and storm drain" to target new creative solutions. You will learn how innovation works on fast feedback cycles to test possible solutions and target root causes of defects. Creative thinking isn't a straight line, and neither should the problem-solving process be a straight line. Each course of action needs early and frequent testing. ****
Expert Instruction
Build Skills
Self-Paced
Progress at your own speed
4 Weeks
2-3 hours per week
Free or $249.00
For the full program experience
Discounted to $224.10 when you purchase the full Agile Project Management Professional Certificate Program.
10 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification
Week 1
Capability Delivery
The first week of Innovation revisits concepts of capability delivery from technical perspective; asking how do we achieve a project's purpose to innovate? What are the risks and methods to be successful in delivering a defined output under uncertain conditions? Here the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is used to target innovation for maximum impact.
Week 2
Requirements and Validation
The second week dives into the requirements gathering and validation process, and the science behind the most powerful requirement tool, a User Story, and how it forms the basis for Test-Drive Development (TDD).
Week 3
Constraints
• Creativity
• Luck
• Productivity
The third week looks at how adding constraints to solutioning unleashes creativity, luck, and productivity towards solving hard, uncertain problems.
Week 4
Application
• TOC Thinking Processes
• User Stories
• Constraints
The fourth week culminates with the application of the TOC Thinking Processes, User Stories, and Constraints along with the use of the powerful system engineering solutioning techniques (isolation, absorption, acceleration, etc.) and tools like TRIZ.
Deliver innovative solutions by unleashing your team’s potential.
Learn how to apply the foundational knowledge of Digital Strategy and Execution to the Government sector.
Build expertise in Lean Product Portfolio Management to create a high-performing enterprise focused on rapid delivery using Product approach, values, structure and culture.
Learn how to lead system Integration of Low-Code, No-Code (LCNC) platforms across the entire Product-Platform Lifecycle.
Lead the product life cycle from discovery to delivery.
Generate big ideas and a culture of innovation
Champion your company’s transformation to a digital enterprise with data analytics and technologies that deliver business agility.
