Speaking
We love sharing our knowledge and observations. We want to talk to you and create a better work environment together. That’s why we’ve been speaking at international conferences, community meetings, and corporate events for a decade.
See some of our presentations and invite us to your event!
You can find a full list of presentations on our blog
Workshops and simulations
Are you planning workshops to define a new product? Are you looking for methods to improve work across the entire organization? Are you creating a new team and want to help it develop its own rules of cooperation? Or maybe your corporate community is looking for new ideas?
- We have a series of workshops dedicated to such occasions. Check out our offer.
- We can adjust the time and scope of the workshop to your needs.
- We can create an entire educational cycle for your organization.
Let us know what you need and we will prepare a dose of knowledge for you.
Leadership workshops
Systems Thinking – Understand Complexity and Act Smarter
Are you tired of putting out fires at work? In this workshop, you will learn how to move from reactive management to strategic action with systems thinking. You will learn to spot hidden cause-effect correlations, visualize complex problems, and find their true causes. Together, we will look at models that will help you better understand your team, company, or market, and thus make more informed decisions. Equip yourself with the tools that will allow you to act more effectively and implement changes where it counts.
Systems Thinking – Beer Game
Have you always dreamed of working in the beer industry? Now you have the opportunity to manage the deliveries of your favourite brewery! In this workshop, you will be a supply chain manager, where you will have to meet customer requirements and maximize the company’s profits. Up to five teams can compete in the game, competing for efficient organization and customer satisfaction.
During the game, we will discover what beer has to do with software development. You will learn how the structure of a system affects the actions of the people working in it, and why complex systems like beer delivery or software development require systems thinking. Gain a new perspective on management and problem-solving!
Efficient or busy? – Discover the secrets of efficiency at work
Is your organization efficient, or is everyone just busy? In this workshop, we will look at productivity through the prism of LEAN and Kanban approaches. We have prepared an interactive game in which you will be able to see with your own eyes how processes work and what makes a working system less effective.
The game is based on building simple products from LEGO bricks, and during each round, we will model work, identify bottlenecks, and implement a continuous improvement cycle. You will understand how employee busyness affects results, and you will also learn to identify and eliminate typical waste in processes. This is a great way to gain a practical understanding of LEAN and Kanban principles and apply them in everyday work.
Value Stream Mapping – How to Stop Being Busy and Start Being Effective
Does your organization succumb to the cult of busyness? Do employees always have something to do, but efficiency is questionable? In this workshop, you will see why full resource utilization rarely leads to true productivity and how you can change that.
Let’s discover the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) technique together, which will help you identify where losses and delays occur in your software development processes. VSM is a tool that comes from the Lean philosophy and allows you to focus on real value, eliminating waste and shortening the time to deliver products to the customer. During the workshop, you will not only learn the theory but also practice using VSM in practice.
This is an opportunity to gain a new perspective on the processes in your company and start working smarter, not harder!
Scaling Agile – How to introduce agility in a large organization?
Is Agile only the domain of small teams? What to do when hundreds of people are working on a product and the organization is getting bigger? During this workshop, we will look at how to effectively implement Agile on a larger scale.
You will learn about the key challenges related to scaling Agile in large organizations and various frameworks such as LeSS, Nexus, SAFe and the Spotify model. We will discuss how these solutions can help manage the work of multiple teams and what pitfalls are worth avoiding to maintain agility in large structures.
Gain practical knowledge that will help your organization become more agile – regardless of its size!
Agile Leadership – Agile leader in action
How to become a leader who drives agility in an organization? In the world of Agile, leadership requires a completely new approach, and the role of the leader is changing dynamically. During this workshop, we will focus on Agile Leaders, and especially on the development of personal leadership (Personal Leadership).
You will learn two models of leader development and the Responsibility Process, which will help you understand the different shades of leadership. You will learn how to recognize the stages of avoiding responsibility and move to full responsibility for your actions, both in teams and communities.
After this session, you will be able to consciously shape your role as a leader and effectively support the development of agility in your organization.
Organizational Structures – How Team Structure Affects Results
Can changing the organizational structure have a greater impact than changing processes? See for yourself! The workshop will help you understand how the way people are organized into teams affects efficiency, communication and work results.
During an interactive game based on working with LEGO bricks, we will analyze various organizational models – from competence teams, through component teams, to interdisciplinary teams. You will see how these structures affect cooperation and dynamics in the company, and how they can change the results of the organization.
Thanks to this session, you will gain practical knowledge that will help you anticipate the challenges and benefits of implementing different models in your company.
Speaking Managerish – How to Change a Company and Not Get Fired
Do your conversations end in a tense atmosphere instead of joint decisions? If you encounter a defensive or even offensive reaction to your proposals, it is worth understanding what is behind these reactions.
During the workshop, we will look at David Rock’s SCARF model, which explains how our brains react to social events. You will learn the mechanisms that govern human behaviour and how to better convince people of your ideas. What’s more, we will practice these skills in simulations of difficult conversations, so that next time you leave the meeting with success – not frustration!
Product Workshops
Product Discovery – From Vision to Implementation Plan
Did you know that most features in your product are never used? Research shows that only a small fraction of new features meet user needs. During the Product Discovery workshop, you will learn why this happens and how to fix it.
I will talk about the pitfalls that await teams creating products in a dynamically changing market, and I will share the Product Discovery Framework, which will help you better define and verify key product hypotheses. We will also try out practical tools, such as the Product Vision and Success Criteria, which will allow you to plan and execute implementations more effectively.
How Big is the Problem? – Estimating in Complex Systems
Estimating the size of a problem is often a more difficult challenge than solving it. If you deal with estimates in your work and are looking for ways to improve them, this workshop is for you.
During the session, you will learn 5 proven estimation techniques that will help you speed up the process and improve accuracy. We will work through tools that will facilitate team collaboration during estimation, allowing you to better assess the complexity of problems and plan effectively. The workshop will give you not only knowledge but also practical skills ready to implement in your daily work.
Product Metrics – Business Analyst Dilemmas
Measuring the results of changes in a product is the key to success, but it is often a challenge. This workshop will help you understand what is worth measuring to effectively track the effects of introduced changes.
We will look at product examples and discuss which metrics make the most sense and which may be less useful. You will learn how to choose the right metrics and avoid traps that can lead to erroneous conclusions. The workshop will allow you to better define and apply metrics in your work to see the impact of your actions on the product.
Learn about your Customer Experience – User Journey Mapping Workshop
Do you want your customers to have a great experience using your product? Our workshop will help you understand how the customer perceives the product at every stage of usage – from the first contact to the end of use.
In this workshop, we will discover what a customer journey is and how to effectively create and analyze it. We will use popular applications as examples to show you how to identify key touchpoints and improve the user experience. This will teach you how to ensure consistency and satisfaction at every point of contact with your product. Perfect for people involved in product development, UX and business analysis.
Understanding the User – UX Tools for Project Managers and Product Owners
In this workshop, you will learn key UX tools that will help you better understand the needs and expectations of your users. We will introduce you to techniques such as creating personas, building empathy maps and conducting user interviews. You will learn how to effectively use these tools to improve product design and management. The workshop will help you apply the knowledge you have practically gained to real projects, increasing the effectiveness of your actions as a Project Manager or Product Owner.
Prioritization and Planning – Effective Techniques
Effective planning is the key to the success of every project. If you want to learn how to prioritize tasks and create valuable user stories, this workshop is for you.
During the meeting, I will present techniques that will help you with effective prioritization. You will learn how to create precise and valuable user stories and how to use impact mapping and user story mapping to better plan and understand the impact of introduced changes. Thanks to practical exercises, you will learn how to transform complex ideas into specific, priority tasks, which will allow you to manage projects more effectively and meet user expectations.
Product Life Cycle – How to adapt the strategy to the stage of product development
Did you know that each product goes through different stages of development? It is crucial to adapt the strategy to the current stage in order to maximize the potential of the product.
During this workshop, you will discover how to effectively manage the product life cycle, based on proven techniques from Lean Startup. You will learn how to analyze the current stage of your product development and choose the right features and strategies for a given moment. You will learn what metrics are key in different stages of development and how they affect the understanding of progress and user needs. The workshop will help you understand how to target your product to the right customers to maximize its potential.
Team workshops
Agile Bootcamp – Practical steps to effective collaboration
A workshop dedicated to entire teams.
Discover how modern organizations use the Agile approach to improve collaboration and efficiency. During this workshop, the team will gain practical knowledge about Agile, learn about different work models and learn how to implement them in their company.
They will learn the Agile philosophy, key principles and values that will help you transform the way you work in your team. They will learn, among others, how to use Scrum, eliminate waste, improve the process, build effective teams and develop products in line with user needs. The workshop will also provide practical experience through simulations that will allow you to understand how Agile works in reality.
The goal is to build an understanding of the Agile culture and get to know the range of practices based on which the team creates its cooperation model during the workshop.
Not sure which training to choose?
Let’s talk:
Bogdan Brześciński
+48 881 300 593
office@procognita.com
