Agile Trainings
Team Trainings
Here you will find training packages that differ from what is typically offered in the IT training market. We do not offer open classroom trainings where employers send one or a few employees, focusing solely on individual development.
I have observed that software development teams actually need something different – they need to collectively solve specific problem areas as a team, and they often know what these are even before attending training. It is necessary to take time, learn some supporting theory, get practical examples of how other teams have successfully solved similar problems, and most importantly – find a solution path for their own team and progress together along it. This approach is the most effective for team development. Therefore, I focus on teams as a whole and have compiled three training packages with distinct objectives:
- foundational trainings – for introducing and opening up the topic of agility
- workshops – to address a specific topic
- role-specific trainings – for an in-depth understanding of a single role’s tasks
Foundational Trainings
Agility foundational trainings are introductory, comprehensive courses that provide a complete overview of a specific agility domain. These trainings are well-suited for team events, bootcamps, or simply as part of a team’s training day. Due to their broad thematic coverage, the objective of foundational trainings is to expand understanding of the agile world, offer inspiration and new ideas, and share practical examples.
Participants often feel after a foundational training that a more interesting topic was covered too briefly and wish to delve deeper into it. In such cases, a workshop training focused on a single topic can be chosen as the next step.
Agility and Product Owner foundational trainings are suitable for teams in all fields, while Scrum Master foundational training is primarily for IT teams.
Workshops
Team workshops focus on investigating and solving a problem encountered in daily work. They can also be called tailored trainings, as they consist of 80% team-based workshop activities and 20% supporting theory. Agile development workshops are primarily intended for software development teams, but some workshops are more general and suitable for use in all fields (e.g., Retrospective Meeting Workshop, Open Topic Workshop).
A workshop can be conducted during a team’s regular workday, where time is collectively dedicated to joint analysis and finding solutions. I facilitate the workshop by providing a suitable format, topic-related theory, methodologies, techniques, and practical examples. I propose various solution options to ensure the team has sufficient background information for finding its own solution path and making decisions.
If a suitable workshop is not found among the ready-made options, I can create a workshop according to the team’s specific needs.
Agile development metrics (coming soon)
Kanban method (Coming soon)
Scope management (coming soon)
Role-Specific Trainings
Role-specific trainings are in-depth knowledge and skills courses focusing on agile roles within a development team. Topics are covered thoroughly, and the training’s objective is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the tasks and responsibilities of the Product Owner (i.e., product owner) or Scrum Master role. The trainings include, as one topic, a substantive understanding of the benefits of the Scrum method and practicing Scrum implementation, but their content is universal and also suitable for users of other agile development methods.
Participants also receive practical advice regarding taking the Product Owner and Scrum Master certification exams and online practice tests; exam vouchers can also be ordered if desired.
Agile role trainings are intended for specialists in the software development field.
Make your team smarter and more effective!
Reasons to choose these trainings
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Team trainings are designed for a single team working together. Unlike open classroom trainings, which gather many different individuals, I primarily focus on the development and relationships within one team. I prefer to conduct trainings at the client’s premises and in their usual work environment, ensuring all participants feel comfortable and are in a familiar setting.
Agile trainings focus on the needs of a single team and provide significantly more value compared to general classroom training.
2
Everyone enjoys playing games, which brings out their natural desires to socialize, express themselves, and collaborate. Playfulness and visualization help people better understand the current situation, relate to each other, and make decisions. Playfulness helps create an open and safe atmosphere where people are motivated to develop, provide honest feedback, and focus on collaboration.
The training workshops utilize game techniques and special game cards to achieve results, involving all team members equally and providing an opportunity to strengthen relationships among team members.
3
Every team that wishes to become more agile in its daily work and decisions, must periodically ask itself:
- How agile is our team? How agile am I?
- In what direction would we like to become more agile? Why? What benefit will this bring us?
- What can we do to achieve this? What are our next steps?
The agility workshop helps the team find answers to these questions.
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Agile methods and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, or LeSS do not provide a magic recipe for increasing your agility. They offer various practices, roles, activities, and a structure that binds them together, but they are not ready-made solutions that can be immediately applied one-to-one. Every team is different and requires its own recipe, or suitable methodology.
Workshops help the team find a suitable agile development methodology and provide a concrete action plan on how to increase their agility.
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The fundamentals of agility state that every individual and every team must find their own path to agility. To achieve this, the current situation must be regularly analyzed, and the right directions for further development must be identified. It is important that such an assessment is not carried out by an external consultant, but that the team assesses itself.
Workshops are structured in an open format, providing the team with the skills and tools to conduct similar workshops themselves in the future and thereby continuously develop.
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