BestBrains Academy - SAFe training and Agile workshops

Better PI-Planning: Make energetic presentations
2018-11-14 17:30 - 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) | BestBrains Academy, Prinsessegade 29A, 2nd floor, Copenhagen, 1422, Denmark
Free event: Better PI-Planning - Make energetic presentations
Use PI planning to serve the good stories and empower your participants!

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The introductory presentation in a PI Planning session offers a unique chance to get the good message off the ground and create the right framework for the following PI Planning.
Unfortunately, this opportunity is often wasted, as the presentations tend to be heavy, even dull. Instead of energising the participants, these presentations usually drain energy from the participants.
In BestBrains we wish to change this! On our mission to improve PI Planning presentations, we have invited rhetorician Heidi Jønch-Clausen to teach us do well structured, creative and engaging performances, that will inspire and energise participants.
Use PI planning to serve the good stories and empower your participants!
Bent Jensen from BestBrains Academy and Heidi Jønch-Clausen from Ploug Niemann will teach you to do powerful presentations. You will learn to use your voice and body to support your message, structure your message tightly and tell the good stories, that will motivate your participants.

We look forward to seeing you!

PRACTICAL INFO

Presenter
Bent Jensen is a pioneer in applying agile methods in Denmark and has been leading agile teams since 2000. For the last 10 years Bent has been coaching and mentoring leaders and organizations to achieve the benefits of lean and agile thinking and methods, with clients in Denmark and internationally. He have assisted a large number and companies with transformation programmes, and supported Enterprises in their transformation to an Agile and Lean approach. Bent has always been focused on the intersect between self-organization and management, between efficient development and innovation and how to push the methods to their limits.

Bent Jensen
Agile leadership coach and SAFe consultant, Partner in BestBrains.

Presenter
Heidi Jønch-Clausen, ph.d. in rhetoric, is management consultant in Ploug Niemann, teaching and training leaders in oral communication, working with disciplines as credibility, argumentation, structure, language and body language.

Heidi Jønch-Clausen
Ploug Niemann Lederudvikling A/S
Photo credit: Tim Kildeborg Jensen

Looking for more than just another Agile class?
Then you’ve found the right place. We want to take Agile training to the next level and believe that effective learning should be just as fun, interactive and inspiring as serious business and hard work. We’ve created a space, which is designed to meet the high expectations from our driven, creative trainers and consultants, and for you to feel comfortable, almost like home.
Watch this video for more information.

Thank you for being such wonderful hosts – absolutely fantastic environment (+ delicious food) to support the learnings.- Sending my husband to the course asap!
Mia Golan
Nordea

Master Class - Achieving Product Development Flow - Copenhagen
2018-10-25 09:00 - 2018-10-26 17:00 (Atlantic/Azores) | BestBrains Academy, Prinsessegade 29A, 2nd floor, Copenhagen, 1422, Denmark
Master Class - Achieving Product Development Flow w/ Don Reinertsen - Copenhagen
Learn how to manage and orchestrate development projects following advanced Lean principles.

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Summary
An intensive two-day workshop on practical, economically justifiable approaches for improving flow in product development.
Initial attempts to apply lean methods in product development simply copied behaviours that worked in manufacturing. This doesn’t work — development is a profoundly different domain. Eliminating all variability works in manufacturing; in product development it eliminates all innovation. Achieving Product Development Flow takes a different, science-based, approach. It relies on understanding mechanisms of action and quantifying trade-offs. It uses economics, statistics, queuing theory, and concepts from telecommunication network design.
This workshop covers the ideas contained in Don Reinertsen’s bestselling book, “The Principles of Product Development Flow”. It focuses on proven leverage points and specific practical methods that have helped participants achieve as much as a 90 % reduction in cycle time.
It is fundamentally different from other workshops in its intense focus on quantification, economic justification, and the use of a science-based approach for applying lean.

Learning goals

Calculate and use “Cost of Delay” as the most important key figure in your development process
Find, monitor and control bottlenecks in the process
Shortening lead-time through systematically reducing batch sizes
Create room for innovation, by allowing variation in the process
and much much more...

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This program is designed for managers who currently play a role in product development. It will be particularly useful to companies that are reaching the point of diminishing returns using conventional approaches to product development and lean product development. It is preferred that participants have a basic understanding of lean techniques and at least 5 years of experience in product development. Attendees should bring a calculator, since the course will involve some light calculations. The techniques covered are general methods of analysis rather than industry specific rules. Just the way physics applies to both large objects and small ones, the methods used in this course can be applied in a wide variety of industries.

PRACTICAL INFO

If you register for a class be aware that VAT will be added to the price above. EU delegates may recover the VAT depending on their circumstances.
For potential attendees outside Denmark; Please reach out if you have any questions regarding the additional VAT costs at checkout. Email: event@bbacademy.dk

INSTRUCTOR

Don Reinertsen has worked with leading product development organizations for over 30 years, and taught executive courses at Caltech for 14 years.
He is the author/co-author of three best-selling books on product development. His latest awarding winning book, 'The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development', has been praised as, “… quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.”

Don ReinertsenPresident of Reinertsen & Associates, a consulting firm specialized in the management of product developmentendal

"Very good, but also quite theoretical. Good "Scientific" fundament for lean/agile practices. Good for economically minded people (CFO, CEO, etc.)"

Dirk Bucka-Lassen
Widex

"Go! If you have been doing agile for a while ... it is a good way to put your everyday praxis in perspective."

Rasmus Thorup Windfeldt
Topdanmark

Looking for more than just another Agile class?
Then you’ve found the right place. We want to take Agile training to the next level and believe that effective learning should be just as fun, interactive and inspiring as serious business and hard work. We’ve created a space, which is designed to meet the high expectations from our driven, creative trainers and consultants, and for you to feel comfortable, almost like home.
Watch this video for more information.

Thank you for being such wonderful hosts – absolutely fantastic environment (+ delicious food) to support the learnings.- Sending my husband to the course asap!
Mia Golan
Nordea

Achieving Product Development Flow - Learn how to manage and orchestrate development projects following advanced Lean principles

Click to buy seat

Master Class - Achieving Product Development Flow - Stockholm
2018-10-22 09:00 - 2018-10-23 17:00 (Atlantic/Azores) | Strandvägen 7A – Room 305, Strandvägen 7A, Stockholm, 114 56, Sweden
Master Class - Achieving Product Development Flow w/ Don Reinertsen - Stockholm
Learn how to manage and orchestrate development projects following advanced Lean principles.

Click to buy seat

Summary
An intensive two-day workshop on practical, economically justifiable approaches for improving flow in product development.
Initial attempts to apply lean methods in product development simply copied behaviours that worked in manufacturing. This doesn’t work — development is a profoundly different domain. Eliminating all variability works in manufacturing; in product development it eliminates all innovation. Achieving Product Development Flow takes a different, science-based, approach. It relies on understanding mechanisms of action and quantifying trade-offs. It uses economics, statistics, queuing theory, and concepts from telecommunication network design.
This workshop covers the ideas contained in Don Reinertsen’s bestselling book, “The Principles of Product Development Flow”. It focuses on proven leverage points and specific practical methods that have helped participants achieve as much as a 90 % reduction in cycle time.
It is fundamentally different from other workshops in its intense focus on quantification, economic justification, and the use of a science-based approach for applying lean.

Learning goals

Calculate and use “Cost of Delay” as the most important key figure in your development process
Find, monitor and control bottlenecks in the process
Shortening lead-time through systematically reducing batch sizes
Create room for innovation, by allowing variation in the process
and much much more...

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This program is designed for managers who currently play a role in product development. It will be particularly useful to companies that are reaching the point of diminishing returns using conventional approaches to product development and lean product development. It is preferred that participants have a basic understanding of lean techniques and at least 5 years of experience in product development. Attendees should bring a calculator, since the course will involve some light calculations. The techniques covered are general methods of analysis rather than industry specific rules. Just the way physics applies to both large objects and small ones, the methods used in this course can be applied in a wide variety of industries.

PRACTICAL INFO

If you register for a class be aware that VAT will be added to the price above. EU delegates may recover the VAT depending on their circumstances.
For potential attendees outside Denmark; Please reach out if you have any questions regarding the additional VAT costs at checkout. Email: event@bbacademy.dk

INSTRUCTOR

Don Reinertsen has worked with leading product development organizations for over 30 years, and taught executive courses at Caltech for 14 years.
He is the author/co-author of three best-selling books on product development. His latest awarding winning book, 'The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development', has been praised as, “… quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.”

Don ReinertsenPresident of Reinertsen & Associates, a consulting firm specialized in the management of product developmentendal

"Very good, but also quite theoretical. Good "Scientific" fundament for lean/agile practices. Good for economically minded people (CFO, CEO, etc.)"

Dirk Bucka-Lassen
Widex

"Go! If you have been doing agile for a while ... it is a good way to put your everyday praxis in perspective."

Rasmus Thorup Windfeldt
Topdanmark

Looking for more than just another Agile class?
Then you’ve found the right place. We want to take Agile training to the next level and believe that effective learning should be just as fun, interactive and inspiring as serious business and hard work. We’ve created a space, which is designed to meet the high expectations from our driven, creative trainers and consultants, and for you to feel comfortable, almost like home.
Watch this video for more information.

Thank you for being such wonderful hosts – absolutely fantastic environment (+ delicious food) to support the learnings.- Sending my husband to the course asap!
Mia Golan
Nordea

Achieving Product Development Flow - Learn how to manage and orchestrate development projects following advanced Lean principles

Click to buy seat

Lær Kanban med LEGO
2018-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | BestBrains Academy, Prinsessegade 29A, 2nd floor, Copenhagen, 1422, Denmark
Lær Kanban med LEGO
Kom og prøv vores LEGO-spil, som på legende vis indfører deltagerne i Kanban-metoden.

Ja tak, jeg vil gerne deltage!

Kom og prøv vores LEGO-spil, som på legende vis indfører deltagerne i Kanban-metoden.
Kanban er en simpel måde at styre et flow på og er et effektivt værktøj til at samarbejde omkring fælles opgaver. Kanban kan bruges i mange sammenhænge, både på team niveau og til koordinering af flere teams eller hele produkter.
Kom og oplev hvad flaskehalse og begrænsning af igangværende arbejde betyder for en udviklingsproces, og reflektér over, hvordan du kan bruge Kanban i hverdagen til at styrke samarbejdet i teams.
Vi får bygget masser af LEGO og har det sjovt, men får også værdifuld indsigt i, hvad det giver at visualisere arbejde og samarbejde om at forbedre et flow.
Hvis du ikke kender Kanban i forvejen vil du få en unik indføring i metoden og kan tage den med hjem og bruge den. Hvis du allerede kender eller bruger Kanban vil du helt sikkert opleve nye aspekter i metoden, som du kan bringe med tilbage.

PRACTICAL INFO

Jesper Thaning er partner i BestBrains og har arbejdet på agile softwareprojekter både i det private og det offentlige i over 10 år, og har erfaring med stort set alle dele af udviklingsprocessen. Jesper hjælper med at indføre agile praksisser i organisationer ved at træne og uddanne projekt- og udviklingsteams, ledere, projektledere og Product Ownere.

Jesper Thaning
Agile coach and practitioner, SAFe consultant, Partner in BestBrains Academy.

An Inconvenient Truth - Climate Reality Presentation
2018-09-25 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) | BestBrains Academy, Prinsessegade 29A, 2nd floor, Copenhagen, 1422, Denmark
Free event: An Inconvenient Truth - Climate Reality Presentation
Join us for this evening with the famous “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation based on former US Vice President Al Gores academy award winning movie with the same name

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With glaciers melting, seas rising, and 16 of the 17 hottest years on record coming this century, we know humanity must change and act boldly to solve the climate crisis.
The good news is that we know we can. Solar, wind, and other renewable solutions are becoming more affordable every year. And all around the world, countries from China to Chile are seizing the moment, working to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement and create a safe, sustainable, and prosperous future powered by clean energy.
Join us for this evenings with the famous “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation based on former US Vice President Al Gores academy award winning movie with the same name.
Carl Starendal from the international Al Gore led Climate Reality Leadership Corps will guide us through the basics of what climate crisis is about and what we can do about it.

PRACTICAL INFO

Instructor
Carl Starendal has been personally trained by former US Vice President Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project to serve as a volunteer Climate Reality Leader for the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
Carl was trained in Boston, USA 2017. The training was a multi-day event focused on providing a select group of trainees with a deep understanding of the latest climate change science, as well as best practices in public speaking, social media, leadership, communication, community outreach, and organizing.
Carl is one of the thousands of trained Climate Reality Leaders from over 135 countries trained by Climate Reality Founder and Chairman Al Gore. This group has been extraordinarily successful at reaching people in their communities and informing them about the global climate crisis and its solutions.

Carl Starendal
SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer and Climate Reality Leader
