Essentials on Agile Mindset
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
Start your Agile journey towards creating more value and smiles from your work!
Date:
TBD
Time:
9:00-18:00 EET
Location:
Riga, Latvia
Language:
Latvian
Trainer:
Jānis Lāma
Partner, Agile trainer and coach
- Single person €340 + VAT
Price per single ticket
- Groups from 3 €290 + VAT
Price per ticket for groups of 3 or more persons
For employees Agile improves
managing changing priorities
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visibility
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business/IT alignment
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Delivery speed/ time to market
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Percentage of workers who say the implementation of agile positively impacted the above areas of their organisation
Source: digital AI, 2021
Start asking the right questions
Have you heard that Agile is the way to go if you want to deliver two times faster and two times more? And would you like your team or organization to do just that? Sure you would!
Just, is it really important to deliver twice as fast and deliver twice as much of something? Our experience and that of the industry show that – no!
In the training, we will not focus and talk about “how to deliver two times faster and two times more of something”, but instead we will start with values and principles (not with processes), you will understand what drives Agile and “Where” and “Why” it works. This is how you will be able to avoid unsuccessful Agile implementation and find answers to the following questions:
- How to understand the customer and deliver more value faster? Or even better - how to regularly find what the customer's changing needs are and deliver on those regularly and faster?
- How can I ensure that my team and organization are able to constantly adapt to changing environments, customer needs and the increasing uncertainty of the world and still stay one step ahead of the competition?
- How can I, as a leader, enable my people, teams and organization to adapt Agile values and principles, so that we constantly become better at what we do - week after week and month after month?
We are not one of the many “experts” who will rush to your aid and offer Agile as a quick solution to all your problems. You will be able to be inspired by our experience – both successes and failures, and our knowledge from stories where we have participated ourselves and led Agile changes, both at the team and organizational level. This will help you find answers and ask the right questions.
Introduction to Agile
This training aims to give you the answers to the questions above by walking through real Agile implementation cases from our experience. Additionally, you will receive enough theory and practical tips for the first steps of adopting Agile. Yes, it could sound a bit disappointing – “first step only”, but it is a never-ending journey towards continuous improvements, as everything is constantly changing there is no end state, and you need to be able to adapt to that!
Training topics
What is Agile and what is not Agile?
Agile values and principles
When to use Agile and when not to?
Scrum and Kanban basics
The Agile triangle - working with scope, time / budget and quality
How to implement Agile in a meaningful manner?
Course content
Agile values and principles
- Success-oriented behavior and behavioral shifts
- How to fail Agile implementation and how to avoid it
- Agile organizations, their structures and mental models
- Mindset of understanding the "WHYs" of Agile implementation
- Multi-speed and dual-track ways of working
- Introduction to Agile Contracts
The Cynefin framework
- Different domains and their complexity
- Approaches for problem-solving in different domains
- Knowledge of when to apply Agile and when to pick another approach
Introduction to Lean practices
- Waste elimination in products, services and processes
- Lean-Agile mindset through real use case scenarios
- Creating resilient teams and organisations
Introduction to most popular practices
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Concept of high-performing teams
Who benefits from this training
Agile way of working and also Agile values and principles are not only for IT teams and organizations. More and more organizations outside IT are adopting Agile to achieve their goals and improve their ability to inspect and adapt. At the end of the day, business agility is what matters, it is crucial to not only survive in challenging conditions but to thrive.
This training is for everyone who wants to learn about the Lean-Agile mindset and how it can be used in their team, department or environment in order to deliver more frequent valuable products or services to their customers.
Roles:
- Product managers
- Project managers
- Engineering managers
- Team leads
- Service managers
- Company managers
- Any other leadership position and anybody else who wants to work in a more meaningful way
Industries:
- New product and innovation development
- Software delivery and support
- Service delivery
- Project management
- Information technologies
- Telecommunications
- Fintech
- Human resources
- Marketing
- also any other industry that works with unknowns and changing customer needs
Workshop approach
- It’s a hands-on training with lots of practical exercises and games for high engagement of participants. Theory is around 30%, exercises and games around 70%.
- From the first minutes, participants will create their "Agile toolboxes” - things they can use in their daily working routines to be more effective.
- Participants will collaborate in small groups to get everybody involved from the first minute of each exercise. Training is executed using the “teaching from the back of the class” approach.
- A parking lot will be available from the very beginning of the workshop to make sure no unanswered questions are lost; as well as to add additional topics for discussion.
- Before the training participants will receive materials to read and watch to familiarize themselves with basic concepts and prepare some questions.
How will Agile improve your work
Enhance ability to manage changing priorities
Accelerate product or service delivery
Increase team productivity and morale
Improve business and IT alignment
Enhance product or service quality
Improve customer satisfaction
Improve project visibility
Improve employee wellbeing
About the trainer
Jānis Lāma
Partner, Agile trainer and coach
Jānis Lāma was a co-founder of the Agiletransformer movement in Latvia, which brings together various Agile practitioners. He is also a board member of the organisation “Agile Latvia”. “Agile Latvia” organizes smaller regular meetings and the annual “Agile Day Riga” conference, thus promoting the Agile approach in Latvia. He is also an Agile trainer and lecturer at University of Latvia and RISEBA.
He has extensive experience in Agile implementation in various organizations from finance, gaming, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, IT and other industries. He has facilitated various Agile seminars, retreats and workshops (currently there are more than 55 Lean-Agile related workshops in his training portfolio), enjoys working with Leadership people for corporate behaviour/culture change.
Jānis is currently working at “Printify” as Head of Product Operations and as Agile Coach is helping several large organisations in the Baltics and Scandinavia to overcome challenges for enabling Lean-Agile environment and mindset in the company. This process includes tasks such as: tackling the mindset and practices of organisational leaders, portfolio level transparency, process excellence with focus on the end customer value and minimising waste, organisational structures for collaboration, innovation and teamwork, and facilitating the company for the path of continuous improvement.
Jānis has gained various Agile related certifications and is a well-known trainer, currently on his way to become the first Scrum trainer in the Baltics and therefore co-trains Scrum courses with other CST trainers from the Scrum Alliance. He likes to work on the principle “Stop Starting, Start Finishing” and strongly believes in Agile values, especially “People and Interaction over Processes and Tools”.
Get your Agile game on!
Ticket prices
- Single person €340 + VAT
Price per single ticket
- Groups from 3 €290 + VAT
Price per ticket for groups of 3 or more persons
Register now
It is easy! Fill in your details and we’ll contact you to send you the payment details and invoice. You will receive your ticket once the payment is received.
What you'll get:
- Digital training materials and additional reading materials
- Top Lean-Agile competency in the market
- Experienced trainer working daily hands-on
- 50% discount to 2h coaching session to improve your Agility
- A shareable certificate issued by GEDVILLO Consulting
- An "Agile Magic box" – a set of tools for implementing Agile, gathered individually by each participant
Any questions? Feel free to contact us.