Agile Technology Selection for Smarter Decisions

This course introduces a lean, user-focused framework for selecting technology, emphasizing agility over traditional checklist-driven methods. By replacing vendor hype with agile experiments, cross-functional collaboration, and scenario-driven proof-of-concepts, you’ll quickly identify the best-fit technology for your needs. This approach reduces risk, enhances stakeholder confidence, and ensures smarter decisions. Through practical examples and hands-on activities, you’ll learn to craft business cases aligned with goals, define measurable success criteria, and design collaborative evaluations that expose vendors' real capabilities. By mastering this approach, you will improve your ability to make informed, evidence-based decisions for any tech investment. What makes this course stand out is its focus on real-world, outcome-driven methods. Unlike conventional vendor selection processes, it blends theory with practical applications, helping you select the right technology quickly and efficiently. This course is ideal for product owners, IT strategists, procurement teams, and anyone involved in technology selection. A basic understanding of business goals and a desire to make informed decisions is all that’s needed to benefit from this course. Copyright @ 2017 Tony Byrne and Jarrod Gingras. All rights reserved. Originally published by Rosenfeld Media, LLC. This course edition is published by Packt Publishing under license from Rosenfeld Media LLC. No part of this material may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise-without prior written permission from the author or the publisher.