Products and Services Management

What is the Kanban Essentials training?

Kanban Essentials is an authorial program dedicated to people who take their first steps in the evolutionary (lean) way of management (Lean Management). It is based on the compilation of knowledge from accredited Kanban University training courses and the practical experience of our experts as Lean Managers, Lean and Agile consultants. Intended for almost every industry.

Program participants are both specialists working in operational teams as well as leaders and managers who want to introduce the benefits of the Kanban method / system holistically throughout the organization, regardless of whether we are talking about an IT department, sales, marketing or e.g. accounting. Kanban Essentials does not contain engineering practices, so it is also recommended for non-technical people.

The proper use of the Kanban method allows you to visualize the entire development process of a service or any business activity process and measure the actual times of activities execution. Importantly, it allows you to identify bottlenecks and delays so that they can be eliminated, thus minimizing waste and losses. Kanban supports building the habit of continuous improvement of team competences, management practices and the improvement of the entire work environment.

You don’t need dry theory and science about adding more tasks to the team, which is anyway already overloaded with work. You want to gain practical knowledge, learn an effective approach to increase the efficiency of the running processes, which allows to engage people, reduce the number of things in progress and increase the number of completed successfully? We have something for you!

Who’s behind this?

David J. Anderson is considered a leader who brought the Kanban method from industry to the IT world, and then scaling it beyond IT. The approach itself is based on the work of figures such as Taiichi Ohno, Eli Goldratt, Edwards Deming, or Peter Drucker. It was popularized by a famous book “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” published in 2010.

Over 200 Kanban University trainers and coaches around the world support the development of management every day by organizing practical training, teaching through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Scrum Essentials training?

Scrum Essentials is an authorial program dedicated to people who take their first steps in Agile Management. It’s based on a compilation of knowledge from the accredited Scrum.org training and the practical experience of our experts in the role of Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Coach. Intended for almost every industry.

Program participants are both specialists working in operational teams as well as leaders and managers who want to introduce the benefits of the Scrum framework holistically throughout the organization, regardless of whether we are talking about an IT department, sales, marketing or e.g. accounting. Scrum Essentials does not contain engineering practices, therefore it is also recommended for non-technical people.

Scrum allows you to increase the predictability of the work and its business value, through transparent prioritization of requirements and quick verification of assumptions. In addition, it enables steering work on delivering business value (defined by the Product Owner), shortening the distance between the team's work and satisfied recipients and by transferring responsibility for effective work to the team thanks to the principles of self-organization/self-management, cross-functionality and empowerment.

You don’t need dry theory on how to complete a project sheet. Do you want to gain practical knowledge, learn a good approach to delivering business value increment that will allow you to respond to dynamic changes and improve the organization’s results? We have something for you!

Who’s behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, teaching through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Product Ownerów Toolkit training?

Both novice Product Owners and those with several years of experience need to improve their skills. Nothing is as conducive to development as a safe space to experiment. This authorial program has been prepared for people who build their toolbox, but remember that tools without appropriate stances and behavior can be counterproductive.

If it is important for you to maximize the value delivered by the solution, product or service which vision you steer, you should understand what stances to embody depending on the context of the situation. To address this aspect, the training begins with a solid discussion of stances and anti-stances, which will allow you to build a kind of foundation on which various practical tools will be presented.

Workshop formula will help you discuss the challenges and effectively avoid dead ends that can often lead a Product Owner into the trap of adoring his/her solution. You will gain knowledge, learn practical tools, strengthen the image of a person who can adjust tools to the appropriate situation, balancing between responding to the needs of stakeholders, customers, users and the capacity and economic capabilities of your environment.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Scrum Master Toolkit training?

Whether you are a novice Scrum Master or have several years of experience, this training program is a safe space to hone your skills. This authorial program has been prepared for people who build their toolbox, but remember that tools without appropriate stances and behavior can be counterproductive.

The Scrum Master Toolkit starts with a solid discussion of stances and anti-stances, thanks to which the participants will build an appropriate context, a kind of foundation on which various practical tools will be presented. Thanks to this, your knowledge will be embedded in the context of a given stance, which will allow you to support teams, managers/leaders and the environment of the organization much more effectively.

The role and accountability of a Scrum Master will get an additional shape after this training. The person who adjusts the tools to the appropriate situation and is able to work at different levels of the organization, using the newly acquired knowledge, i.a. in social and communication areas, facilitation, formation and stimulation of effective teams, development of products and services, promotion of systematic improvements of organizational processes.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Applying Professional Scrum™ training?

Applying Professional Scrum™ is an accredited training from Scrum.org, introducing the concept of Agile Management. Participants through a workshop form will learn about the Scrum, a framework used for incremental and iterative delivery of business value.

The training is based on the simulation that illustrates techniques for dealing with uncertainty and complexity. The topic will be technologically simple enough that non-programmers will be able to handle it.

On the other hand, the most common challenges, obstacles and dead ends will be presented and discussed for people who have only heard, but have not experienced the correct implementation of the entire framework. It gives a lot of space for the participants’ questions, enables bad practice detection and shows a wide range of tips on how to get back on track. Applying Professional Scrum training is ideal as the first step into Scrum.

You don’t need dry theory on how to complete a project sheet. Do you want to gain practical knowledge, learn a good approach to delivering business value increment that will allow you to respond to dynamic changes and improve the organization’s results? We have something for you!

Who’s behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Professional Scrum Master™ training?

Professional Scrum Master™ is an accredited training from Scrum.org, expanding knowledge and building essential competencies to perform the role of Scrum Master in the organization. The participants, through hands-on experience and discussed examples, will dive into the practices of improving overall organizational effectiveness.

On the one hand, the discussed program will allow to better understand and support the mechanisms of self-organization/self-management, build shared responsibility and remove organizational obstacles blocking the potential of proper Scrum introduction in the organization. On the other hand, the program provides practices and tools to better manage risk, plan, measure and monitor the continuous delivery of business value.

Thanks to this training, current or aspiring Scrum Masters will gain competences to support not only Developers, but also the Product Owner and other stakeholders, scaling agile management to the entire organization. In turn, participants in leadership and managerial positions will understand what a Scrum Master does on a daily basis and how much value it can bring to the entire organization.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Professional Scrum Master™ - Advanced (PSM-A) training?

Professional Scrum Master™ - Advanced (PSM-A) is an accredited training from Scrum.org based on hands-on exercises, designed for Scrum Masters who want to acquire additional knowledge and skills to support teams and the entire organization in holistic performance improvement. This is the next stage in the development of every Scrum Master.

The discussed program helps to reach a higher level of advancement, helping participants understand what stances characterize an effective Scrum Master and how to consciously switch between them. Participants will understand the differences between adopting the stance of teacher, impediments remover, coach, mentor, facilitator and change agent.

You will explore how to better serve Developers, the Product Owner, the organization and how to communicate better as a Scrum Master. In addition, you will learn what you need to do to become an effective Scrum Master. You will learn how to use the principles and values of Scrum to change the environment to one that is conducive to the development of teams working in Scrum.

During the training, each participant will be able to define the challenges faced by the role of Scrum Master, then diagnose in which areas may triumph and in which still needs development. You will leave the classroom with a set of actions for yourself and for your organization, all developed during the training based on your own participation.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ training?

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ is an accredited training from Scrum.org, expanding knowledge and building essential competencies to perform the role of Product Owner. The form of the workshop, the spectrum of examples, techniques and tools allows to better manage the business value increment in a predictable and adapted to market dynamics way.

Program provides the essence of modern product management, prepares you to develop a product development strategy, taking into account requirements analysis, stakeholder management, shortening the feedback loop from real users, and on its basis, dynamic product adaptation. Participants in leadership and managerial positions will understand what a Product Owner does on a daily basis and how crucial it is for the entire organization to properly perform this role.

The role and accountability of the Product Owner, often misinterpreted and reduced to creating business requirements, will take complete shape after this training, building the awareness of a intrapreneur who constantly analyzes market trends, knows representatives of target user segments, monitors, measures and makes informed decisions what should, and what should not be developed.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

What is the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ training?

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ - Advanced (PSPO-A) is an accredited training from Scrum.org that focuses on hands-on exercises and workshops, designed for experienced Product Owners and product managers. The training is designed to deepen participants’ knowledge and skills in advanced product management in the Scrum framework, which is the next step in every Product Owner’s professional development journey.

The PSPO-A training program is designed to help participants understand and adopt the various stances that characterize an effective Product Owner. Participants will learn how to effectively perform roles such as customer representative, visionary, experimenter, decision maker, collaborator and influencer. Each of these stances is analyzed and practiced during interactive exercises, enabling them to better understand and implement the knowledge gained in their daily work.

During the training, participants will learn how to effectively communicate the product vision, validate hypotheses, conduct experiments and deliver greater value to stakeholders. They will also learn how to better collaborate with the Scrum team, stakeholders and customers to maximize the value delivered by the product.

Who is behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.