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Empowering Teams and Transformative Business Collaboration

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Learn how to empower teams and transform collaboration into success. This course focuses on optimizing team structures for maximum empowerment and creating a culture of collaboration across different business units. Through this course, you’ll explore effective strategies for managing cross-functional teams and building a collaborative culture that drives business success. Real-world case studies and examples will provide insights into how top companies achieve scalable success through team empowerment and collaboration. Perfect for leaders, managers, and anyone looking to foster a more collaborative and high-performing work environment. This course is part three of a three-course Specialization designed to provide a comprehensive learning pathway in this subject area. While it delivers standalone value and practical skills, learners seeking a more integrated and in-depth progression may benefit from completing the full Specialization. From Empowered Copyright © 2021 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Syllabus

Team Topology

In this section, we explore how team topology shapes empowered product teams, supports alignment, and helps organizations adapt to changing priorities and dependencies.

Product Strategy

In this section, we examine the essentials of product strategy, including how to prioritize high-impact product challenges, make focused decisions, and align teams to achieve meaningful outcomes in product organizations.

Team Objectives

In this section, we examine the distinctions between feature teams and product teams, develop effective Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and explore strategies for creating accountability, alignment, and collaborative commitments in product organizations.

Case Study

In this section, we examine a detailed case study to understand how team topology, product strategy, and organizational objectives address scaling and tech debt challenges, offering practical frameworks for similar business situations.

Business Collaboration

In this section, we examine the transition from subservient feature teams to empowered product teams, emphasizing collaboration with stakeholders and providing strategies for product leaders to drive organizational mindset and responsibility shifts.

Inspired, Empowered and Transformed

In this section, we examine how empowered teams leverage strategic vision, trust, and evaluation of value, usability, and feasibility to solve complex problems and deliver customer-centric, business-aligned innovations.