Description
A two-day Rapid Learning Cycles Global Project Leader Certification workshop
With Rapid Learning Cycles Summit and Pre-Conference Workshops
19-22 May 2026 in Rotterdam, Netherlands
In addition to the workshop described below, receive a registration to the Rapid Learning Cycles Summit with both pre-conference workshops:
1. From Learning Cycles to Execution Cycles: The Transition from Early to Mid and Late Development
Deliverables, gate reviews, CAD models, test plans, system prototypes and more are all essential to the product development process by documenting and sharing the full set of decisions necessary to take a product into production.
This pre-conference workshop pulls together our most recent experiences with integrating the “just do it” work of product development into the Rapid Learning Cycles framework to build integrated, action-oriented plans, without losing the critical shift from “doing” to “learning” that drives acceleration through better decision making.
You’ll learn when and how to integrate these so-called “execution tasks” into your Learning Cycles plan (and when you shouldn’t), how to handle the transition from concept to feasibility to design, and how to use an Agile Integration Train to coordinate when it’s time to move out of the lab, and into production.
2. How to Write Better Key Decision and Knowledge Gap Reports
In this workshop, we’ll work with you to write better Key Decision and Knowledge Gap reports. You will work on a small project of your own choosing, which may be personal or professional, in a small group. We’ll cover:
–How to strengthen your Key Decision or Knowledge Gap question
–How to write a strong Purpose Statement that builds credibility for your recommendation
–How to use charts, graphs, images, etc. more effectively to illustrate your learnings
–How to write a solid recommendation and socialize it with decision makers.
You’ll leave with a model report and a review checklist that you can use to work with your teams to improve their Key Decision and Knowledge Gap reports to support real-time knowledge capture and stronger decision making.
RLC Global Project Leader Certification Workshop
This experience will prepare you to run a small to medium sized team using Rapid Learning Cycles in the early phases of product development.
You will learn:
- Why and how Rapid Learning Cycles is a proven way to remove rework loops, revisited decisions and late design changes to accelerate time-to-market for physical products.
- How the elements of the framework fit together to build team alignment, engage stakeholders and decision makers, focus the team on its most important work, and pull real-time knowledge capture and sharing.
- The steps of the Kickoff Event that establishes Rapid Learning Cycles for a project team, from the Core Hypothesis to the Learning Cycles Plan.
- How to run Learning Cycle and Integration Events so that they drive better decision making.
- How to integrate execution activities into the Learning Plan without losing the team’s focus on building knowledge first.
