Building and Leading Cross-Disciplinary Digital Teams

Turn cross-disciplinary digital teams from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

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

01

Set the minimum documentation for cross-disciplinary digital teams that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

02

Establish monitoring that detects model or service degradation in cross-disciplinary digital teams before users report it.

03

Assess whether cross-disciplinary digital teams should be built in-house, bought, or delivered through a partner.

04

Align cross-disciplinary digital teams with the wider objectives of the transformation programme rather than optimising it in isolation.

05

Agree the retirement plan for the legacy process cross-disciplinary digital teams replaces.

06

Set a realistic target state for cross-disciplinary digital teams and a defensible route to it.

07

Build a security and access model for cross-disciplinary digital teams appropriate to the sensitivity of the data involved.

Who Should Attend

01

Risk and compliance staff assessing the controls around cross-disciplinary digital teams.

02

Data and analytics leads responsible for the pipelines behind cross-disciplinary digital teams.

03

Internal auditors reviewing how cross-disciplinary digital teams is designed and operated.

04

Public sector digital leads applying cross-disciplinary digital teams under procurement and privacy rules.

05

Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by cross-disciplinary digital teams.

06

Operations managers whose processes are changed by cross-disciplinary digital teams.

Course Modules

01

Cross-disciplinary digital teams: from pilot to production

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 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.
02

Cross-disciplinary digital teams: cost, licensing and total running expense

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 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.
03

Cross-disciplinary digital teams: vendor selection and avoiding lock-in

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 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.
04

Cross-disciplinary digital teams: architecture, integration and the existing estate

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 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.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • 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

USD1,850
  • 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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