Create principles that guide the product decisions of your team. Understand the areas you need to cover and start developing your own set of principles.
Building more sustainable digital products requires product, design, development and infrastructure teams to work in one direction. While they need a sustainability strategy to follow, this strategy cannot be so specific that it gives orientations for all the hundreds of decisions team members take daily.
Sustainability principles are a powerful instrument to bridge product strategy and daily product work. Similar to Leadership principles or Circular Design Principles, Sustainable Product Principles convey the approach of an organisation to sustainability. This provides all team members with guard rails for their daily work. Yet, principles allow for freedom to translate them to the situation at hand.
Content & Benefits:
Participants of the course will:
- Learn about the areas sustainability principles need to cover (e.g. embodied carbon, energy consumption, social and environmental consequences of the product)
- Understand sustainability principles and how to formulate them
- Create a first draft of sustainability principles for their product
- Map a plan of further refining and adjusting the principles for their organisation
Benefits of this course include the ability and knowledge to:
- Implement sustainability into product work
- Reach sustainability goals
- Create a plan for next steps of implementation
Who is this course for?
In particular, this course was created for:
- Directors and Heads of Products who look for a way to implement sustainability
- Strategic Product Managers and Portfolio Managers who need an instrument that coordinates multiple teams
- Complete Product Teams who search for their own approach to sustainability
- Product owners, product managers, designers and developers who are driving change
- All of the above for digital products, not physical products
Available Formats:
The course has various options that are available either online or in-person.
- 8h workshop, either delivered in one go, or spaced over three parts
- In-person or remote possible
Trainers
Patrick Hypscher
- Former Global Executive at an international Billion-Euro company
- Built a circular Product-as-a-Service business with millions in revenue from customers in Germany and The Netherlands
- Runs Circularity.fm, a leading podcast on circular business models
- Co-Founder of Green PO
Joanna Masraff
- Thought leader in Agile and Sustainability
- Trained >300 people and Coached >20 from multiple companies in sustainable Ways of Working
- Co-organiser of Agilists4Planet conference and Agilists4Sustainability community
- Co-founder of Green PO
Contact us and we discuss the the best option for you
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