The ability to Navigate and Lead with an adaptive and innovative mindset in today's complex and changing work environment.
The set of tools and methods to reduce the Cost of Opportunity, to create the right things in the right way - with the end users and customers involved.
Daily routines to quickly adapt to new insights and keep efficiency and speed at optimal levels.
Training Programs
Introduction To Kanban
The participants learn the basics of the Kanban methodology in order to participate in Kanban teams.
Training Content:
- History of Kanban
- The principles of Kanban – Theory of Constraints and Little’s Law
- Visualization of Work and Flow – Setting up a Kanban Board
- How to deal with blockages in flow – Problem-solving in a Kanban process
- How to analyze complex processes – Event Storming method
- Priority and Sequencing in Kanban – Lead time calculation and cost of delay
Introduction To Design Thinking
The participants get to know the foundation of the Design Thinking method.
Training Content:
- What is Design Thinking – the Design thinking process
- How to understand and describe users
- How to define and describe a user problem
- Creativity techniques for fast idea generation
- How to describe the customer experience – creating a user journey
- Methods for fast prototyping and testing of solution ideas
Introduction To Scrum
With this training the participants learn the basics of the Scrum framework.
Training Content:
- History of Scrum – Why was it developed and what were the ideas
- The 3 Roles of Scrum and the manager – their tasks, responsibilities and collaboration
- The basic Scrum Model – how does Scrum work in general
- The Events of Scrum – The meetings of the Scrum model and how and why to do them
- Practice Learning – “Elephant Carpaccio” Scrum Simulation
Introduction To Agile
The participants will get an overview about the agile manifesto and its roots, key agile principles and get to know the most important agile frameworks.
Training Content:
- Why Agile?
- The agile manifesto and its roots
- Common agile methods and frameworks
Design Thinking Methods
The participants get to know tool to improve their application of the design thinking method.
Training Content:
- An overview on Design Thinking tools and resources
- Understanding Users and their Problems – Using the 5 Why and 6W method
- Using Observation methods to understand the user needs and problems – AEIOU technique
- Important creativity techniques to create solution ideas – Brainstorming paradox and Brainwriting
- How to describe a product quickly– creating a lean product canvas
Scrum Master
This training builds on the Intro to Scrum training and teaches you about being a Scrum master.
Training Content:
- Scrum Theory and first principles
- Scrum Framework and how to explain it
- Definition of Done
- How to form teams and deal with people
- The role and stances of a Scrum master
Agile Management & Leadership
The participants get and overview of different leadership styles and its connection to modern work environments.
Training Content:
- The VUCA* world and its challenges – what it means to engineers and managers
- Leadership styles and their usefulness in different contexts
- Leading with Goals in agile environments
- Fostering self-organization
Leading Change With Agile
The participants learn the foundations of leading a change effort.
Training Content:
- Requirements for successful change
- The Change curve and the change process
- Forms of change resistance
- Planning a change effort with a simple change model
Leading Remote Teams
The participants will learn key techniques of leading remote and distributed teams.
Training Content:
- The challenges of remote leadership – what are the problems we face when working with remote teams
- Building up communication and transparency – how to ensure communication between remote teams
- Building trust and building up self organization and make sure that we work together