Masterclass Accelerating Cleantech with Agile & Rapid Learning Cycles

Innovation & Sustainability Masterclasses by Next Agents

Accelerating Cleantech with Agile & Rapid Learning Cycles

Agile has been glorified as the best way to manage the uncertainty in development of innovations. But its translation into the world of hardware and cleantech has not been uncontroversial.

Rapid Learning Cycles is an adaptation of Agile for hardware and other physical products — and other parts of the business where decisions are irreversible or expensive to change.

In these areas, the assumptions that drive the practices and tools of Agile Software Development do not hold true. Instead, we use the principles of Agile to deliver value early, while avoiding the waste of revisited decisions.

• Pull learning forward to eliminate uncertainty and burn down risk.
• Make decisions at the right time with the right people and the best available knowledge.
• Experience acceleration with less frustration, as the team encounters fewer roadblocks on the path to launch.

This Masterclass will be taught be Katherine Radeka, the founder of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute. Katherine is an internationally-recognized expert on innovation and product development who has helped hundreds of engineers and scientists to get their best ideas to market faster.

Author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book, The Mastery of Innovation as well as the books The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster which is in its 2nd edition, the book High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster and most recently the book When Agile get Physical: How to Use Agile Principles to Accelerate Hardware Development.

Innovation & Sustainability Masterclasses by Next Agents

At the Innovation & Sustainability Masterclasses by Next Agents, we will dive deep into concrete tools and processes to combine innovation and sustainability. Participants will be introduced to the relevant framing theory, as well as to concrete and actionable tools that they will be able to implement directly at their organizations. The Next Agents Masterclasses are taught by respected and renowned experts.