The ACA Product Kick-Off Week with 6 free WORKSHOPS!
Let us teach you to get from innovative idea to viable product!
Idea? Set… Go!
You and your team have been thinking about a certain issue for a long time, but then finally, there it is: a great, creative idea! You’re ecstatic: this is it! You get started on your idea and it takes the form of a project. However, you soon notice things aren’t going as smooth as you’d wish. The project seems like one large, insurmountable pile of work, you encounter problems you hadn’t thought of beforehand, you didn’t consider the feedback of eventual users of the product, …
Companies don’t always have the necessary skills or knowledge to get started on projects, even though they may have great ideas.
Maybe they don’t know which methodology to use, or perhaps they are confused by the jungle of different methodologies out there.
What you’ll learn
From 4-7 December, we’re organizing a Product Kick-Off week with several sessions and workshops to broaden the understanding of the different techniques we have experience in.
Learn to build a correct story map
Focus on your goal with event storming
Domain Driven Design to easily verify whether your team is building the right thing
Create involved meetings with the gamestorming approach
Change your view on product roadmapping
Learn how to extract qualitative feedback from users using user experience interviews
Quick and effective road to Minimum Viable Product
ACA-IT Solutions has over 10 years worth of experience in Lean and Agile methodologies. We would like to share our knowledge and experience with you and provide coaching for best practices to get a project started. Since we’ve learned from our own experiences, we are able to give strong recommendations on which tactics to use for your specific project.
Product Kick-Off week
Learn how to go from innovative idea to viable product & select your free workshops
Monday 4 December
Located in our Olen office
7:30 – 9:00 AM: Coffee & Breakfast
9 – 11AM: Story mapping
11:00 – 12:00 AM: Factory Visit & Lunch
Learn to visualize and build a model for a product roadmap
Find out what Minimum Viable Part should be built first
Build shared understanding between all stakeholders involved
Focus on an end-to-end product
Workshop:
- Warming-up exercise
- In-depth story map of mobile app
Tuesday 5 December
Located in our Olen office
7:30 – 9:00 AM: Coffee & Breakfast
9 – 11AM: Event storming
11:00 – 12:00 AM: Factory Visit & Lunch
Focus on what events need to happen to reach a goal
Create a model by writing events on post-it notes on a timeline
Build shared understanding of what the business is doing or will be doing
Workshop:
- Warming-up exercise
- Modelling a fictional domain in a Big Picture Event Storming session
- How to continue afterwards
Wednesday 6 December
Located in our Olen office
7:30 – 9:00 AM: Coffee & Breakfast
9 – 10AM: Domain Driven Design
Understand how to approach everything surrounding software development
Make use of Ubiquitous Language
Learn to easily verify whether your team is building the right thing
Practical seminar:
- Basic concepts of Domain Driven Design
- Why it’s so different from any other approach
10 – 11AM: Gamestorming
Learn how to stimulate creativity in meetings
Lead a group towards some goal by way of a game
No high tech tools required
Workshop:
- Warming-up exercise
- Introduction to gamestorming
- Practical game example
- Reflection and feedback
11:00 – 12:00 AM: Factory Visit & Lunch
Thursday 7 December
Located in our Olen office
7:30 – 9:00 AM: Coffee & Breakfast
9 – 10AM: Product Roadmapping
Get a fresh look on the concept of a product roadmap
Change your view on product roadmapping
Learn how to properly create and maintain a product roadmap
Theoretical seminar with small exercises
10 – 11AM: User experience interviews
Learn how to extract qualitative feedback from users
Understand user experience and usability
Learn how to conduct your own user experience interviews
11:00 – 12:00 AM: Factory Visit & Lunch
Questions or interested, but the timing doesn’t work for you?
If you’d like to give us your opinion, some remarks or if you have a question, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Are you interested in coming to the Product Kick-Off week, but are you too busy to attend? No problem, give us a heads up and we’ll work something out.
annemie.vandenberghe@aca-it.be or give Annemie a call +32(0)486/84.71.67
yves.claes@aca-it.be or give Yves a call +32(0)497/47.69.69