How about an injection of energy and knowledge? We like to share what we know. Practical ,real world experiences in product development and transformations. Here’s a list of inspirational seminars from Snowdrop’s coaches.
Each seminar is 30-60 minutes long.
Interested in running one @ your compan? Send an email to “info@snowdrop.se” with title “Inspirational seminar”.
Emerging topics
(keep an eye on these)
| Title | Description | Speakers |
| What is the Product Model? | What are the patterns of great product companies? That has been explored and described in the books “Empowered” and “Transformed” by Marty Cagan and the SVPG team. These ideas “The product operating model” have encouraged companies to rethink how they approach product development, moving from an IT-centric view to a customer-focused, outcome-driven mindset. In this seminar, we’ll dive into the fundamentals of the product operating model and how leaders can create an environment where teams thrive and deliver value. | Jan Grape, Markus Elving |
| Experiences from applying the product operating model | “Empowered product teams” or “The product operating model,” as Marty Cagan describes it, is based on what exceptionally successful companies do. How can you apply this to your company? We share our experiences from real transformations. | Jan Grape, Markus Elving |
| Hypthesis driven product development | How we take the experimental approach to product development all the way and spend our energy on the right things | Markus Elving |
Transformations
(how to frogleap your orgnizational capability, with more fun and less stress)
| Title | Description | Speakers |
| Overcoming immunity to change | Change is hard. Change is also necessary. This session is shares how an organisation can overcome the fear of change using a constructive, structured approach. | Johannes Lindman |
| From strategy to action | Everyone knows the company’s vision and goals, and everyone knows what they are doing this week. But can you see the connection between the two, or do you lack line of sight and have an “air sandwich” in your tactical planning? | Jan Grape |
| Agile Unplugged, timelss patterns | There are a foundational patterns for collaboration, organizational development. Learn which they are and master how to combine then to drive change. | Johannes Lindman |
| Avoiding the SAFe zombie – improving beyond SAFe | Have you started a SAFe transformation but improvements are levelling off? This session shared what companies did to continue their improvement momentum beyond basic SAFe. | Mattias Skarin |
| Portfolio – why care and how to make it useful | This session shared the inten of the Agile Porfolio, how ot shifts and improve the steering of the company and the difference between Lean/Agile budgeting and Project governances. | Mattias Skarin |
Technogy & Architecture
| Architecture in an agile environment | Technical debt and the desire for “the big rewrite” often stem from the system’s fundamental architecture. How can we gradually keep the system’s structure and properties up to par as we evolve it and add functionality? These are questions we never anticipated when we built the first version. | Jan Grape |
| AI in a nutshell | AI is the new black. But how dos it work? Let’s look underneith the hood of how AI models gets created, and how it is a major shift from traditional software development. | Mattias Skarin |
Modern Product discovery
| Product discovery | Discovery is the only constant in product development, it start as soon as your idea is born and stops first then we have abandonded the product. here you can get a better understanding when to do what and how. | Markus Elving |
| Experiences from applying the product operating model | “Empowered product teams” or “The product operating model,” as Marty Cagan describes it, is based on what exceptionally successful companies do. How can you apply this to your company? We share our experiences from real transformations. | Jan Grape |
| EvoDiscoDev: Collaborative Product Discovery and Delivery | Case story: How we created a collaborative product discovery and delivery process | Markus Elving |
| Case: Improving Conversion by being data driven | Working data driven is easy in theory – hard in practice. In this case story (from a large fintech company), I share how evovled our data platform and how it was used to drive product development decisions, ultimately improved the performance of our product. | Markus Elving |
Organizational development
(developing the system behind succesful teams)
| Title | Description | Speakers |
| Common traits of agile cultures | What is culture? Examples of cultural traits from agile organizations operating by the product model. | Jimmy Janlén |
| What makes an organization slow and how to fix it | Teams can be fast and high-performing while the organization as a whole is not. Why is that, and what can you do about it? | Jan Grape |
| The Stress Equation | How Pressure, Complexity and Security affects the levels of stress in your teams. | Marcus Lagré |
| The Performing Organization | How to become Agile without using the A-word. Which patterns of behavior do your processes and culture promote, and how is it holding you back? | Marcus Lagré |
| The Big Shifts | From control to trust & empowerment. From preventing failures to recovery and learning. Hierarchies to networks. Reporting lines to layers of support. Short-term to long-term leadership. From fixing problems to improving the system. From planning to hypothesis. From Privacy to Transparency. From rewarding results to rewarding behaviors. | Jimmy Janlén |
| Decision making under uncertainty | The speed of product development can not move fater than the speed of decisions. But how do you make decisions when their is uncertainty? In this interaction session we explore techniques that enables you to move fast while shifting the odds to your favour. | Mattias Skarin |
| The Responsibility Process | The path to act with clarity and intent. How to be proud of your actions and responses in hindsight. | Jimmy Janlén |
| Practicing the Coaching Stance | Practice how to help others sole a problem without you thinking about the problem. | Jimmy Janlén |
| How to empower the autonomous product team | What does an autonomous product team need from the organization, it’s leaders and others, to feel empowered. | Jimmy Janlén |
| Beyond Scaled Agile: Essential Cross-Org Conversations | What conversations need to happen through and across the org to create clarity and to empower our teams. | Jimmy Janlén |
| Achieving tangiable goals (OKR’s) | Do you know the diection of your company, and do the rest of youe collegues? here you can get som tips on how to make your goals tangible and what to do to actually achieve them | Markus Elving |
| Managing complexity | The world (of product development) is inhearantely complex. The good news: There’s a way to deal with that. This session shares how to overcome and handle complexity. | Markus Elving |
| When your key persons are about to retire | Most organizations have experienced people who can practically solve or help with any problem. We have become reliant on them to the degree that we will be in deep trouble if they leave us. Here is a model for how to do deliberate knowledge sharing and not wind up in the same situation again with the next generation of brilliant people. | Jan Grape |
High performing teams
| High performing teams | What makes a team motivated, engaged, fast, and do stuff with really high quality? Here are some keys to unlock a team’s performance. | Jan Grape |
| The Bottleneck Hero | From a point of congestion to enabler of autonomy and growth | Jimmy Janlén |
| Scrum and/or Kanban | A pragmatic comparison. Pros/cons. How to combine. Pitfalls and advice. | Jimmy Janlén |
| 5 Dimensional Team Development | Five different aspects of team development that you should be on top of! | Marcus Lagré |
| Decision-Making techniques for Agile teams | Different techniques and formats for effective decision-making for the team. | Jimmy Janlén |