Agile, DevOps and Lean IT in VUCA world

This class is about introducing student to concept o agile project management and concept of VUCA world. Basis of following subject will be covered: agile, scrum, scaled agile, Lean IT, DevOps, Scaled Agile solutions, leading changes across organization.

Duration: 16h

Business facilitation skills are basic asset of every professional in a modern world. Nowadays most of the endeavours are connected with cooperation with others.
Independently on whether you are Leader, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, consultant, a key aspect of your job is cooperation groups of people.

Business facilitation is complex domain. During the course participants will get introduction to basics of facilitation process as well as examples of tools for handling conflicts during workshop, making effective group decisions, generating the ideas and more.

This course, although the basic one, is not only about the theory. Participants would learn through practice and feedback gathered during the module.

Duration: 12h

In today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, effective leadership is crucial. This dynamic lecture explores essential topics such as leading through change, coaching as a leadership approach, effective communication tactics, and the key qualities that define an 'agile' leader.

Key Lecture Topics:

• Leading in the VUCA World
• Leading Through Change
• Lead by Coaching
• Effective Communication Tactics
• Leadership Communication
• Key Qualities of an 'Agile' Leader

Join this engaging lecture to enhance your leadership skills, navigate the VUCA world with confidence, and cultivate the qualities that define agile leadership in the 21st century.

Duration: 8h

Agile initiatives need different approach for requirements management than waterfall approach. Purpose of this workshop is to teach participants about best practices for requirements management in agile world.

Duration: 8h

This class is about two crucial elements of Scrum framework: Scrum Master role and Scrum values.
In first part, participants will try to understand Scrum Master role. Basing on Scrum Guide and “8 stances of Scrum Master” whitepaper, participants will describe Scrum Master persona. After understanding the stances and anti-patterns, participant will practice using different stances and approaches.

The second part is focused on Scrum values. Participants will understand the reason of introducing values in modern organization, the meaning of values in Scrum and the connection between the values and behaviors.

Duration: 8h

This workshop is about practicing agile behaviors in class room simulation game.

Duration: 8h

The Scrum Guide provides very little information about scaling approach. It is mentioned that the framework can be used for network of teams – but there’s no detailed description how to do it.

This gap has been filled by “agile scaling frameworks” like SAFe, Disciplined Agile, LeSS, Nexus, Scrum@Scale. These frameworks have common elements, but there are also important differences between them.

The goal of the class is to get the knowledge about different frameworks and get the ability of choosing proper framework to current challenges.

Duration: 8h

This empowering lecture delves into the complexities of leading culturally diverse teams. Learn to harness the power of the culture map, adapt communication styles, foster inclusivity, manage remote and hybrid setups, and cultivate an emotionally intelligent team climate for success.

Key Lecture Topics:

• Cross-Border Leadership
• The Culture Map: Navigating Similarities and Differences
• Adapting Communication Styles for Cultural Understanding
• Embracing Inclusive Leadership
• Leading in Remote and Hybrid Environments
• Managing Emotional Climate in Your Team

Join us to master the art of leading cultural diversity and driving your team to new heights in today's globalized world.

Duration: 8h

During this course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps.

Participants in the class gain insights into mastering Business Agility in order to thrive in the competitive market. They discuss how to establish team and technical agility and organize and re-organize around the flow of value. They also learn and practice the skills for supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Participants in the class explore the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and design thinking approach to agile product delivery. Learners also develop an understanding for implementing a Lean Portfolio Management function in their enterprise

Duration: 16h

A good mix of theory, experience, best practices and a workshop. Everything you need to know about what is DevOps and what kind of problems it solves. After the lecture, you shall have a good understanding of the DevOps concept and apply it in your team, department or company.

Duration: 12h

Complete overview of Lean approach towards Portfolio Management. Practical course where participants learn up to date practices how to establish Value Stream Budgets and how to prioritize different initiatives to achieve maximum economic benefit at the portfolio level. During the exercises students try to solve their real life cases with support of the other participants.

Workshop style course where attendees gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.

Participants in the course have the opportunity to capture the current and the future state of their portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and identify important business initiatives for achieving the future state. Participants also explore methods to establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban and prioritize initiatives for maximum economic benefit. The course also provides insights on how to establish Value Stream Budgets and Lean Budget Guardrails and measure the Lean portfolio performance.

Duration: 20h

This course is about how to applying lean management in IT departments.

Duration: 8h

Comprehensive overview for understanding the DevOps competencies needed to accelerate time-to-market by improving the flow of value. It equips you with the tools to execute an implementation plan for improving the delivery tactics. You will learn how to map a value stream in your delivery pipeline, from idea to cash, and identify practices that will eliminate bottlenecks to flow. This course will build an good understanding of complete flow of value: from Continuous Exploration to Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand. The knowledge you gain will help align people, processes, and technology throughout the organization to achieve short and sustainable lead time.

To compete in a disruptive global market, every organization needs to deliver valuable technology solutions at the speed of business. This requires a shared DevOps mindset among all the people needed to define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven systems—not just the engineers operating a CI/CD pipeline.

Workshop interactive course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end. Attendees will learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a continuous delivery pipeline that is tailored to their business. Attendees work in cross-functional teams to map their current state value stream from concept to cash, identify major bottlenecks to flow, and build an actionable implementation plan that will accelerate the benefits of DevOps in their organization.

Duration: 20h

Agile Transformation – key considerations for Agile Leaders This workshop-based course is designed to help Agile Leaders in Agile Transformations in their organizations. While agile frameworks (like SAFe) give ready-to-use implementation roadmaps, that could guide organizations on the key steps on their journey, there are several and common considerations for all organizations to take when going from old waterfall project management approach.

Duration: 12h

During Workshop student will cover six views on organizations plus the basics of Management & Leadership as well as Complexity Thinking:

• Energize People: Motivation and Engagement,
• Empower Teams: Delegation and Empowerment,
• Align Constraints: Values and Culture,
•  Develop Competence: Learning and Competencies,
•  Grow Structure: Scaling Organizational Structure,
• Improve Everything: Success and Failure.

Duration: 16h

 It covers subjects covered during studies.