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Agile Training 2-day :
Manage Your R&D or Industrial Innovation Projects

Transform your innovative projects with Agile methods adapted to R&D challenges. Practical training to gain autonomy, flexibility and results.

Introduction: Agility, a Key Asset for Your R&D Projects

Agile concepts and tools, although born in the IT domain, are now adapted by SolidCreativity for all innovative sectors, particularly for industrial R&D and research environments.

The Evolution of Project Management

Project management has undergone several revolutions:

  • 1930s: Taylor and Ford formalised assembly line work, Gantt planning and the V-cycle to increase productivity.
  • 1970s: ISO standards and Six Sigma introduced continuous improvement and matrix organisation to control quality.

The Limits of Traditional Methods

These approaches now show their limits for projects that are:

  • Innovative (products, services or processes) with highly creative early phases and uncertainties
  • Presenting a large number of unknowns or systematically running late
  • Complex (unmanageable Gantt chart) with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams spread across several sites

Why Agility Has Become Essential

For R&D and innovative industries, Agility is no longer an option, but a strategic lever to:

  • Accelerate innovation
  • Adapt to complex challenges
  • Improve team collaboration

Training Presentation

Agile management of complex and innovative projects Manage Your R&D or Industrial Innovation Projects
Coaching is recommended after this "fast-track" training!

Training objectives 2-day

This training enables effective management of complex innovation projects in an industrial context, covering the entire development cycle (from concept to industrialisation).

Practical approach

The techniques learned are applied from the second day onwards on concrete cases from the company. At the end of the training, participants master operational tools to manage innovative projects, independently or as part of a team. Support for the implementation of a pilot project is offered as an option.

Types of projects concerned

  • Early phases of industrial projects
  • Restructuring of complex projects
  • Managing multidisciplinary/multicultural teams across multiple sites
  • Agile milestone management for R&D projects
  • Projects with high technical uncertainties

Specific R&D/R&T adaptation

  • Milestone-based quality management methodology (respecting deadlines and budgets)
  • Scrum adapted to industrial constraints (complex physical objects, procedures/gates, multi-site, multi-project, multicultural contexts)
  • Risk management and prioritisation in R&D environments
  • Interfacing with V-cycles and other existing methods
  • Visual management based on quantifiable objectives

Learning objectives

Learn to manage a project in your industry with Agile practices and tools

At the end of this training, you will be able to:
  • Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of traditional, Agile and Hybrid management123
  • Identify a project suitable for Agile/Hybrid management123
  • Understand how Agile management can be possible and beneficial in your industrial domain1
  • Express objectives and break them down without going through tasks123
  • Manage intra-project risks by prioritising objectives123
  • Calibrate and track the right quality for the project123
  • Use jargon related to Agile practices123
  • Obtain and track Planning Poker point estimates123
  • Use Scrum tools adapted to your industry and adapted Agile practices (roles, meetings...) outside the dictates of IT projects123
  • Have applied these skills to ongoing projects to be able to use them afterwards1
Assessment method: 1 - Assessed by the trainer during exercises and questions. 2 - Validated during the end-of-training MCQ and its debrief. 3 - Self-assessed by MCQ and available audit.
(Self-)assessments and debriefs contribute to the acquisition and validation of skills.

After the training

After the training we recommend support through our coaching programmes

  • Post-Agile training coaching
  • Remote delivery
  • Variable intensity and duration
  • Around a team / project
  • Support the team in the company context
  • Anchor Agile practices
  • Accompanies and stimulates the team

Reference Points and Keywords

Management, project manager, innovative project, creative, complex, early phase, Agile, tracking, milestone, management by objectives, review, communication, industrial, R&D, R&T

Target Audience

Anyone managing or part of a project with significant unknowns

Profiles: R&D/R&T Manager, Project Manager, Project Team, Technical Management, R&D Director, Product Owner...

No prerequisites related to the training subject

Practical Information

2 days (14h). In-company training only.

 

Testimonials about our Agile Management

Airbus Airbus
"Best training ever!"
Renault Renault
"answers adapted to our challenges"
TreeFrog TreeFrog
"a new approach"
Poietis Poietis
"structured and effective approach"
Envea Envea
"concrete industry-oriented"
EOS EOS imaging
"remarkable relevance"
ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal
"it's a success"
IMV IMV
"productivity gains"
Photonis Photonis
"Agile kick-off"
SKF SKF
"innovative high-risk projects"

Training Programme for Agile Management of Innovative Projects

Course Structure

Dialogue is quickly established through interactivity that shows trainees what differentiates tracking of conventional projects (V-cycle for example) from innovative projects (R&D type) or complex projects (when the team feels overwhelmed by the scale) as well as the difficulty in understanding and communicating new ideas or vague objectives that cannot be properly defined or definitively validated before the project ends.
Agile and Hybrid approaches are then introduced with their new paradigms and simple, effective tools to prioritise objectives, assess risks specific to the project, then track projects.
Learning through exercises then practice of these tools on concrete examples naturally continues the training which ends with implementation on the company's project.

Experiences During Training, Learning Outcomes

  • Identification of a project that could benefit from Agility (fluctuating objective, complex, Multi*...)
  • Advantages and disadvantages of traditional, Agile and Hybrid management
  • Assessment of measurable objectives, prioritisation according to their relevance and risks
  • Breaking down complex objectives in your industry, to apply iterative incremental
  • Characterisation and communication of innovative objectives with their specs
  • Development time estimation through dialogue
  • Planning Agile projects around rigid milestones
  • Agile and Hybrid project tracking, assessment of objective achievement
  • Use of "Agile" mechanisms to manage suitable projects
  • Understand two main differences with pure IT Agility
  • Role of constraint and its use in project management.
  • Learning and use of concrete Agile project tracking tools (Scrum adapted to R&D/R&T, Agile quality tracking tool...).
  • Having used these skills on ongoing projects and being able to use them subsequently.

Teaching Methodology

  • Concrete examples and exercises from the start, to experiment and understand.
  • Quick transition to practice through monitored progression of the training group.
  • Application of learning on subjects brought by trainees.
The training consists of gradual stages for controlled progression:
Morning (9:00 am - 12:20 pm)
  • Review of basics and improvement of traditional project management and the V-cycle
  • Discovering gaps in traditional management
  • Identification of projects or parts of projects requiring Agility: Hybrid Management
  • Risk management, value and prioritisation
Afternoon (2:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
  • Introduction to Agility
  • Planning by objectives, breaking down objectives along 3 axes
  • Right quality management, specs tracking
  • Discovery, by example, of iterative incremental and its benefits.
Morning (9:00 am - 12:20 pm)
  • Scrum outside IT
  • Team structure and operation
  • Agile visual management
  • Role-playing scenarios
Afternoon (2:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
  • Agile in your company
  • Practical implementation on a company project
  • Relations with non-Agile projects
  • Debrief and discussion on company implementation

Coaching is recommended

  • After the training
  • Remote delivery
  • Around a team / project
  • Support the team in the company context

Adapted and flexible

  • Coaching.Agilite.pro
  • Variable intensity and duration
  • Anchor Agile practices
  • Accompanies and stimulates the team

Duration and Groups

2 days / 14h

Group of 6 to 12 trainees

Training Materials Provided

  •   summary of training slides
      working and summary documents
  •   digital format
      lifelong access via secure link
  •   optional: "paper" or "printable PDF" version

Validation of learning outcomes via end-of-training quiz.
Follow-up quiz available for HR.   Download PDF   Contact us

How to Take This Training?

Delivery Methods: Online, In-Company or Inter-Company

Online

  • Available via video conference
  • Adapted teaching and content
  • Digital signature, materials and quizzes
In-company training only
No travel expenses

In-Company

  • At your premises, at your pace
  • Flexible: up to 12 people
  • Targeted: your subjects as exercises
€2,700 excl. VAT per day (plus expenses)

Inter-Company

  • Not currently available
  • Please contact us for in-company options
  • Europe-wide delivery available
Not currently available

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Experience

  • Founded in 2004 by Pascal Jarry, innovation expert, with 20+ years of creative leadership across 3 continents - source
  • Also co-founder of Nomalys, mobile CRM visualisation solution deployed in 60 countries
  • 12 patents filed in one year using the ASIT® method, several transformed into products, including: WO2006108947, FR2850325, FR2846614, FR3011357, FR3012707, FR2954569, FR3056798, FR2850437, FR2853616
  • Pioneer and developer of non-IT Agility for R&D and industry - source
  • Developer in France of the ASIT structured creativity method - source

Expertise

  • European exclusivity for the ASIT® method (Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking) - ASIT.info
  • Registered method trademarks: ASIT®, ecoASIT®, ASIT-BIM®, SolidCreativity® - source
  • Official YouTube channel: SolidCreativity - validated video content
  • Senior consultants with triple profile: business expertise, large company management, entrepreneurship - source
  • Educational partner of RondementCarré for ASIT method distribution

Authoritativeness

Trustworthiness

  • Enhanced confidentiality: no client mentioned without explicit consent - source
  • SolidCreativity has obtained Qualiopi certification for training activities
  • Active CSR charter, responsible use of artificial intelligence - source
  • European commitment and interventions only on incoming requests - source
  • Educational assessments via quiz, self-assessment and HR follow-up - source
  • Authentic and verifiable company data and client testimonials - source