Supercharge Your Organization with Kata Watts – Building SW&HW Products like Tesla and SpaceX using the Agile Kata

Course description:

Learn what Agile- and Digital-Transformations are really about, based on Joe Justice’s experience from Tesla and SpaceX and Joe Krebs’ Agile Kata. In this one of its kind workshop, Joe Justice will share how response to change in hardware development can be accelerated to drive business growth and product innovation. Joe Krebs, will introduce the Agile Kata as a pattern to implement this product development strategy.

For example, a traditional automotive company takes 2.5 years for a minor change and 5 to 7 years for a significant change. In an agile automotive company, headlights, taillights, and charging ports are changed in two days. These changes are made more than 20 times a week and are all installed in the vehicle. The Agile Kata, which is a true agile change management process, can help you implement these radical changes in product development, by focusing on experimentation and deliberate practice. Streamlining manufacturing speed, such as approvals or budgets, requires a common improvement culture across the entire organization and the Agile Kata is that. Every participants will learn from the product development experiences by Joe Justice and a tool to implement them in their own organization.

This workshop is for you if you are a Product leader, Leader, Manager, coach, or consultant in product development.

Outline:

• Agile is eating the world – Driving Cultural Change (Story Telling by Joe and Joe)
• Agile Kata Introduction and Hands-On Simulation
• How to onboard people and teams and re-launch existing people.
• How to restructure business units and divisions for the maximum pace of innovation.
• Changing budget processes for responsiveness.
• Justice Board: Self-forming teams with financial responsibility.
• Self-organization of the work and timelines for lean innovation.