Our Workshops:

Join our Discover Business Product Backlog workshop, where you will train on a real online store product backlog.

Find answers to questions:

• What is (and what isn't) a Product Backlog (PB)?
• How to build a PB to best meet its goal?
• What can we put (and what shouldn't we) inside a PB?
• How to define PB elements to make them valuable on their own?
• What does Product Coaching mean?
• How to deliver business value as early as possible?
• When to stop investing in a given functionality and take on a more experimental approach?
• Who and how is responsible for the PB on different levels?
• How to order a PB while working with stakeholders and development teams?
• How to move from running 500 concurrent projects in your organization and focus on your product, opportunity, idea or brand?

The workshop’s form is training focused on practical knowledge. This training will be valuable to you if you have your own startup, are a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, or if you work with a client on a Product Backlog in the IT industry. It’s a part of a two day workshop: eCommerce Product Owner.

Hear life stories where properly asked questions have played a crucial role in the development of the product. Train on a real Online Store Product Backlog, engage in conversations and share your own stories. Your Product Backlog will have a new look in 2023!

For whom: startup owners, Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, IT Leaders.
Time: 6:30h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-12 (online) 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to acquire key product management competencies practicing on real-life eCommerce case studies. Throughout the training, you can step into the role of a product coach, learning what great questions to ask when someone comes to you with a new idea.

Find answers to questions:

• What questions work best when talking with clients?
• How to identify the right business goals?
• How to define (leading) KPIs?
• How to align business with tech people?
• How to design experiments helping validate your ideas?
• How to propose alternative and better solutions?

The form of the workshop is training, so be prepared for a lot of interesting discussions and a lot of practice instead of boring theory.

For whom: Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Software Developers
Time: 3:30h (short version); 8h (full version)
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants:  3-6 (online) 3-16 (on site)
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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Dive in and explore how different organizations in the world handle the problem of growing at scale. Discover how does the broadness of product definition and depth of cross-functionality impact your organization's ability to change its direction. Let's answer the question on what are the possibilities for the organizational design of your company?

Find answers to questions:

• What are common pitfalls organizations encounter while moving towards Agile?
• What are the crucial steps in successful agile transformation?
• What are the differences between scaling agile a frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, Nexus and Spotify?
• How to foster multi team cooperation and alignment on business goals?
• How to solve problems like: new ideas are implemented after many months; external coordination needed; complicated architecture and little knowledge exchange; a lack of trust between departments?
• How to provoke action on higher management?

Take part in a multi-team product simulation in different configurations and learn about the pros and cons of each approach. Specify which problems you face in your organization are company specific and which are systemic. Join an insightful discussion on how the culture of a company follows its structure and what are the pros and cons of different approaches to design its teams. We will use system thinking and Causal Loop Diagrams to model our conversations and share our mental models on how we understand different organizations work.

For whom: Agile Coaches, IT Managers, Team Leaders, HR Business Partners, Scrum Masters, Software Developers, Product Owners
Time: 3:30h (short version), 8h (full version)
Language: Polish/English
Form: Physically on site
Participants: 12-60 (on site)
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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We will practice remote programming. You will learn tools and techniques that support distributed teams and give you an advantage while working remotely from home.

Find answers to questions:

• How to encourage people to do pair programming?
• How to run a mob programming session remotely?
• How to introduce TDD and BDD approaches in your team?
• How to move from acceptance criteria towards specification by example?
• How to talk with users and stakeholders to uncover hidden assumptions?
• How to run an example mapping session remotely?
• How to document your product using live executable documentation in Gherkin, instead of inconsistent and outdated documentation in Sharepoint?

About the kata

We will develop an airline feature using agile practices and techniques helping us to shift left our development process.

• We will use a web browser remote IDE.
• We will code in Java and Cucumber.

You will need

• A little programming experience (any programming language will do),
• Bring your laptop or computer with a mouse.

For whom: open for everyone working in and with development teams
Time: 3:30h (short version), 8h (full version)
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely
Participants: 4-8 people
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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We will explore key concepts of estimation and forecasting in IT projects, focusing on practical techniques to enhance decision-making, accuracy, and collaboration between developers and the business.

Find answers to questions:

• Why do we estimate?
  How has it become relevant in IT?
• How do we estimate?
  What techniques and approaches are there?
• How to improve the estimation?
  How can we improve the numbers and decision-making?
• How does Statistical Forecasting work?
  How can we make use of historical data?
• What is Budget Thinking?
  How can we shift the burden from the developers to the business?
• How do you want to estimate in your company?
  How are you obligated to estimate vs. what can you introduce by yourself?

Optional: One month before the training, we offer an additional Jira configuration session. This session is focused on setting up Jira actions and configuring your Jira project to gather the necessary data. The data collected will be used during the actual training to demonstrate Statistical Forecasting using the Monte Carlo method with real, project-specific information. This hands-on approach will help you see how these forecasting techniques work in practice.

For whom: Suitable for anyone working in or with development
Time: 90 minutes
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 4-16 people
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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Scrum training different than anything you've seen before! Explore the heart of Scrum and have engagging conversations not about HOW? but Why? of Scrum. Take the next step in the shu (守) ha (破) ri (離) jurney with your team and question and discover scrum new again.

Find answers to questions:

• What makes some teams more effective than others?
• What is the difference between empirical process control and defined process control?
• What is the heart of Scrum?
• What are the reasons for each Scrum element?
• When not to choose Scrum?
• Ok, we have Scrum .. what's next?

For whom: experianced Scrum Teams, IT Managers
Time: 2h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely
Participants: 3-12 people
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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At the end of the day you as a manager are responsible for the people in your department. Employee Experience topics like: regular coaching, support, performance review, periodic interviews, pay cuts and layoffs are on your shoulders. That’s why it is so important that you also actively participate in the recruitment of your employees! But how to recruit effectively for Agile positions that are unfamiliar for you?

Find answers to questions:

• What is a competency?
• How to build a candidate's competency profile?
• What recruitment techniques can help to check a candidate's experience?
• Which recruitment techniques are ineffective and harmful?
• How to formulate proper recruitment questions and what is the STAR model?
• What are the advantages of internal vs. external recruiting?
• What aspects distinguish a professional recruitment process?

For whom: IT Managers, Leaders, Recruiters, Scrum Masters
Time: 3h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-12 (online) 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch, Tomasz Morański

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After a recruiting success, Onboarding is the second most important stage in building committed teams. During this training, we jointly develop the best tools that help a new employee painlessly throughout the first period in a new job.

Find answers to questions:

• What is Onboarding?
• What are the most important steps in Onboarding?
• How to build employee motivation in the first months?
• What onboarding techniques can help to check an employees experience?
• Which onboarding techniques are ineffective and harmful?
• How to prepare the Onboarding process and implement it?
• How to measure Onboarding effectiveness?

For whom: IT Managers, Leaders, Recruiters, Scrum Masters
Time: 5h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-12 (online) 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Tomasz Morański

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Why is Offboarding so crucial for us? Firstly because, employees will pass on their offboarding experience to people who may work with you in the future. Secondly, he will provide the most complete information he has about your company on the last day of work. During this training, we will learn about all the basic offboarding tools and we will learn how to conduct professional exit interviews.

Find answers to questions:

• What is Offboarding?
• How to dismiss an employee from your organization?
• What are the most important steps when Offboarding?
• How to prepare your Exit Interview?
• How to guide your employee during his last weeks in the company?
• What offboarding techniques can help to check your employees experience?
• Which offboarding techniques are ineffective and harmful?
• How to prepare your Offboarding process and implemented it?

For whom: IT Managers, Leaders, Recruiters, Scrum Masters
Time: 3h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-12 (online) 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Tomasz Morański

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Agile HR is our unique proposition to combine both the knowledge about Agile and the experience with learning it by doing it. After familiarizing ourselves with Agile, we will tap into one of your challenges and go through it in an Agile fashion delivering iteratively and as a team. 

Find answers to questions:

• Why Agile in HR?
• What can be found in an Agile Toolbox?
• What is the difference between agile HR and HR for agile organization?
• How to make Agile decisions?
• How to understand a particular problem and find a vision for a solution?
• What are the useful agile tools for HR?
• How to work as a self organising team?

For whom: HR Teams
Time: 4h+4h+2h+2h (two workshop’s days with followup)
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-14 (online) 8-14 (on site)
Trainers: Tomasz Morański, Błażej Drobniuch

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Feedback is like Scrum easy in theory and difficult in practice. Why? Techniques alone are not enough to provide feedback. During this training, we will focus not only on understanding the idea of feedback but also we will experience it first-hand. See how powerful it is and also how dangerous it could be when we do it unskillfully

Find answers to questions:

• Why feedback is so important?
• What is most important in feedback?
• Which feedback techniques can help to take care of yourself and others?
• Which feedback techniques are ineffective and harmful?
• How to prepare for feedback?
• What are the challenges in giving feedback?
• Why is experience so important?

For whom: IT Managers, Leaders, Recruiters, Scrum Masters
Time: 6h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-12 (online) 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Tomasz Morański

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Are you interested in the phenomenon of fear and anxiety in organizations and would like to share your own experience? In our workshop, FEAR AND ANXIETY IN ORGANISATION, we will tackle one of the biggest taboo topics regarding the operation of an organization.

Prepare to work in groups, meet new people and talk a lot :)

Find answers to questions:

• What are emotions?
• What is the chemistry behind 'how do you feel'?
• What are typical symptoms and defense mechanisms of anxiety?
• How to deal with anxiety?
• How to help others to deal with anxiety?
• How to pay attention to projective identification?
• What are the systemic sources of anxiety in the organization?
• What are the psychodynamic sources of anxiety in the organization?
• What are the approaches for prevention and intervention?

For whom: Everyone with experience from large organisations 
Time: 3h
Language: Polish/English
Form: Online/Remotely or physically on site
Participants: 8-16 (on site)
Trainers: Błażej Drobniuch

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Contact us and we will prepare a custom made workshop perfect for your needs! Book a call with one of our FesLers and have a casual chat or just fill up the contact form so we can reach you back.

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• what will they start doing at work?
• what will they stop doing at work?
• what will they do differently at work?

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