Set the minimum documentation for cross-disciplinary digital teams that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Building and Leading Cross-Disciplinary Digital Teams
Turn cross-disciplinary digital teams from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Technology choices around cross-disciplinary digital teams are easy to reverse on paper and expensive to reverse in practice. Boards are asking for measurable returns from this part of digital and data-driven work, not demonstrations. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of the practice within digital and data-driven work and supervised application. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better cross-disciplinary digital teams is rarely technical. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the digital and data-driven work discipline are used deliberately. The difficulty is not agreeing that the wider digital and data-driven work agenda matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in cross-disciplinary digital teams before they become incidents. The course covers the practice within digital and data-driven work at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this aspect of digital and data-driven work rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish monitoring that detects model or service degradation in cross-disciplinary digital teams before users report it.
Assess whether cross-disciplinary digital teams should be built in-house, bought, or delivered through a partner.
Align cross-disciplinary digital teams with the wider objectives of the transformation programme rather than optimising it in isolation.
Agree the retirement plan for the legacy process cross-disciplinary digital teams replaces.
Set a realistic target state for cross-disciplinary digital teams and a defensible route to it.
Build a security and access model for cross-disciplinary digital teams appropriate to the sensitivity of the data involved.
Who Should Attend
Risk and compliance staff assessing the controls around cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Data and analytics leads responsible for the pipelines behind cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Internal auditors reviewing how cross-disciplinary digital teams is designed and operated.
Public sector digital leads applying cross-disciplinary digital teams under procurement and privacy rules.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Operations managers whose processes are changed by cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Course Modules
Cross-disciplinary digital teams: from pilot to production
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The data question everyone skips at the start of cross-disciplinary digital teams
- Define acceptance criteria for cross-disciplinary digital teams in advance.
- Measure the current quality of the data feeding cross-disciplinary digital teams before assuming it is usable.
- Estimate the resource cross-disciplinary digital teams requires to run as designed.
- Verify that cross-disciplinary digital teams still performs when input volume doubles unexpectedly.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on cross-disciplinary digital teams starts
- Identify the skills the team lacks to operate cross-disciplinary digital teams independently.
- List the data sources cross-disciplinary digital teams consumes and confirm each has a named owner.
- Define the service level cross-disciplinary digital teams must meet and what happens when it is missed.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Cross-disciplinary digital teams: cost, licensing and total running expense
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making cross-disciplinary digital teams secure without making it unusable
- Prepare the summary of cross-disciplinary digital teams that senior management will read.
- Compare the cost of cross-disciplinary digital teams with the cost of its absence.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when cross-disciplinary digital teams underperforms.
- Record the reasoning behind each architectural choice in cross-disciplinary digital teams.
Session 2The hard cases in cross-disciplinary digital teams and how to reason about them
- Confirm that contractual obligations around cross-disciplinary digital teams are understood.
- Rehearse the briefing on cross-disciplinary digital teams that would follow an incident.
- Assess the regulatory obligations cross-disciplinary digital teams triggers in each jurisdiction.
- Specify the fallback path when cross-disciplinary digital teams is unavailable.
Cross-disciplinary digital teams: vendor selection and avoiding lock-in
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in cross-disciplinary digital teams and what to ignore
- Reduce the variation in how cross-disciplinary digital teams is carried out between teams.
- Set the metrics that will show whether cross-disciplinary digital teams is drifting from its intended behaviour.
- Close out actions on cross-disciplinary digital teams rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Test cross-disciplinary digital teams against edge cases drawn from real historical records.
Session 2Sizing cross-disciplinary digital teams honestly before committing budget
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about cross-disciplinary digital teams.
- Identify every system cross-disciplinary digital teams must read from or write to.
- Agree what will be standardised in cross-disciplinary digital teams and what will not.
- Check that records of cross-disciplinary digital teams answer the questions likely to be asked.
Cross-disciplinary digital teams: architecture, integration and the existing estate
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The governance cross-disciplinary digital teams needs and the governance it does not
- Classify the data in cross-disciplinary digital teams and apply access controls that match the classification.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on cross-disciplinary digital teams.
- Build the user briefing that explains what cross-disciplinary digital teams does and does not decide.
- Estimate compute and licensing cost for cross-disciplinary digital teams at expected and at peak load.
Session 2The pilot that actually settles the argument about cross-disciplinary digital teams
- Define the exit route from the supplier supporting cross-disciplinary digital teams.
- Establish the boundary of cross-disciplinary digital teams and record what sits outside it.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates cross-disciplinary digital teams is under control.
- Confirm the retention and deletion rules applied to data inside cross-disciplinary digital teams.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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