Agile for Hardware (CHA)

In the Agile for Hardware training, you will learn how to use the newest Lean/Agile methodologies to drastically reduce your time to market, acquire flexibility and respond to changes in requirements and markets with ease. You will also learn how to improve the quality of your products, ignite innovation, achieve predictability, boost close collaboration among technical and business people and increase employee engagement and satisfaction.

The training combines theory with real world cases to help the participants find out how they can apply the principles and methods in their own context.

Apply the Agile way of working to areas other than software and learn how to harness the power of Agile/Lean methodologies to develop hardware products and products involving both software and hardware.

The Agile for Hardware training teaches you how to use the latest Lean/Agile methodologies to dramatically reduce your time to market, gain flexibility, and easily respond to changing requirements and markets. You'll also learn how to improve your product quality, drive innovation, achieve predictability, foster close collaboration between technicians and salespeople, and increase employee engagement and satisfaction.

The training combines theory with practical cases to help participants discover how they can apply the principles and methods in their own context.

This training allows you to obtain the Certified Hardware Agilist (CHA) certification issued by BlinkLane.

Day 1

Lesson 1: Why change?
Why is it necessary for an organization to adapt the work processes to the agile way of working? The need for agility, delivering value to the customer as quickly as possible, explained.

Lesson 2: Adaptability
In a rapidly changing environment, it is difficult to operate without adjusting plans. How can this be handled properly during the hardware development process?

Day 2

Lesson 3: Benefit tracking
In a world of innovation, there is a lot of uncertainty, this also applies to the products that are under development. How do you determine the value of the products under development and how do you determine at an early stage whether they are successful?

Lesson 4: Internal reporting
How do you record the results achieved.

Lesson 5: Making a start
There is no time to lose in this rapidly changing environment. Tools to make a start with a new approach and to put the things just learned into practice as quickly as possible.

This course is meant for, among others:

• Engineers
• Project managers
• Line managers
• Senior executives
• Inventors and innovators