Developer Training Services
We know that developers want to be respected by other team members. They value competent team members and managers. OpLaunch developer training services enable individual contributors to build their domain-specific knowledge to elevate their NPD, system-level expertise.
This training will help developers gain additional respect. Specific benefits to developers include:
- Improved effectiveness when working with specialists from other disciplines.
- Improved persuasiveness when responding to competent leaders or challenged by HiPPOs. [Highest Paid Person's Opinion - someone with a limited understanding of system-level issues that attempts to influence development decisions. Typically, HiPPOs derive their influence from their position on the organization chart.]
- More respect when developers say 'No' to requests that jeopardize meeting the objectives for a successful product launch.
- More innovative strategies and tactics to meet project objectives
- Better preparation for future projects
Note: The term 'developer' is used here as a general term for project contributors such as designers, engineers, programmers, and market specialists.
Shu, Ha, and Ri-levels of Mastery
The Shuhari concept is helpful to the evolution of a developer's confidence and efficiency. Shuhari is a martial arts concept that Alistair Cockburn and others have popularized to provide software development insights. OpLaunch developer training services extend these insights to new product development contexts.
Shuhari concepts can be used in NPD to reveal insights about learning curves and to facilitate communication. This applies to intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary situations. It applies to both individual contributors and their managers, as seen in the Table below.
| Level of mastery | Characteristics in discipline specific context | Characteristics in a systemic, NPD context |
| Shu— Follower | Contributors are likely to embrace techniques consistent with numerous templates gleaned from commonly available sources within their discipline. | Management and development activities are not symbiotic. Development priorities across disciplines are not aligned. Inconsistent launch results due to sub-optimization. |
| Ha— Breakaway | Contributors select from a variety of techniques that could be used to solve a specific problem and implement the most appropriate technique based on context. | After exploring a large percentage of the disciplines required for NPD (from ideation to launch, and including product life cycle management) and mastering more than one specific contributing discipline, practitioner is able to recognize and evolve nonaligned procedures to produce more consistent, systemic NPD results. |
| Ri—Fluent | Mastery of theory, fundamentals, and application enables contributor to provide solutions to new problems in diverse environments. | Adapts to emergent conditions (such as change in market conditions or loss of key team members) regardless of development environment to deliver innovative solutions that dramatically contribute to NPD success. Inspires and mentors other discipline specific contributors to produce exceptional results. |
This training provides practical insights to improve the collaboration, experimentation, discipline, personal growth, and responsibility to the development effort while addressing the business rationale for the project as well as addressing the user experience factors.
To learn more about assimilating this developer training, contact OpLaunch.
