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Product Culture

Leadership – Product culture

Enabling trust driven engineering

Quick course info

Format

1-day in-person training

Duration

8 hours

Trainer

Harry ten Berge
Co-Founder

Too many engineers work in environments where delivery is decoupled from purpose, and leadership is synonymous with control. This foundational training helps leaders build a culture where autonomy, accountability, and agility thrive. Learn to create conditions where teams can focus, collaborate, and deliver real value—sustainably.

Who should join

Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Architects, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and anyone shaping the environment in which engineering teams operate.

What you'll walk away with

  • Clarity on what it means to lead with agility
  • Tools to foster ownership, focus, and flow in your teams
  • Practices to cultivate engineering excellence and trust
  • Insights into aligning technical work with business

Curriculum overview

Core Leadership Concepts

  • Modern Leadership Principles and Stances
  • Understanding Team Culture and Dynamics
  • Focus, Flow, and Psychological Safety
  • Managing Constraints: Strategy, Architecture, and Dependencies
  • Enabling Autonomy without Losing Alignment
  • Inspecting Outcomes, Not People

Learning Outcomes

  • Adopt leadership behaviors that nurture self-management
  • Learn to recognize and remove systemic impediments
  • Support technical excellence through servant leadership
  • Understand how to grow a resilient, value-driven engineering culture
  • Use empiricism to steer change and guide decision-making

Prerequisites

No engineering background is required, but familiarity is useful. We recommend reading Balance by Chris Lukassen before attending.

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