Conteneo’s training programs are renowned for their practical, hands-on, and highly engaging learning-by-doing approach to skills development. We offer public and dedicated instructor-led training, a skills-based certification program, and remote webinar training options for teams that are geographically dispersed. We’re happy to tailor our training programs to meet your needs.
Course Descriptions
Enterprise Agility
Our enterprise agility classes teach you a how to use frameworks to improve your Agile practices. If you’re using Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, DaD, Lean Kanban or a customized process, our frameworks will help you succeed.
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Certified Scrum Master with Innovation Games
Earn two certifications during this interactive, dynamic two-day course! Your instructor will share proven, real-world experiences and techniques for implementing Scrum and show you how you can be successful with Scrum. Through short, focused lectures that examine each piece of the Scrum framework, the class will engage in several small group activities using Collaboration Frameworks to reinforce each topic and maximize your understanding and retention of Scrum.
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Certified Scrum Product Owner with Innovation Games®
This two-day, in-person certification course introduces participants to the core collaboration frameworks first described in the bookInnovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play—the same frameworks used by Fortune 1000 companies, nonprofit organizations and governments to improve their products and services and build lasting success. More than 2,000 business leaders have taken this course.
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Certified LeSS Practitioner Training with Innovation Games
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
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Agile Portfolio Management
Based on the book How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games, Agile Portfolio Management is a fast-paced, learning-by-doing, experience-based course that teaches you how to use Conteneo’s in-person and online collaboration frameworks to effectively prioritize and manage your project portfolios. The course wraps five core collaboration frameworks into four prioritization “game plans” that give you the tools needed to manage near-term priorities, strategic portfolios and determine appropriate resource allocation strategies. -
Innovation Games® for Agile Teams
One of four core values of the Agile Manifesto is Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. At Conteneo, we like to shorten this just a bit and focus on collaboration: within a team, between teams, with customers, and with stakeholders. The most popular Agile method is Scrum – and Scrum is built on effective collaboration!Effective collaboration is powered by goal-driven frameworks, with clearly understood roles, interaction models and an understanding of what the group is going to do with the results.
In this powerful one day, learning-by-doing certification workshop you will learn several essential frameworks to improve your Agile projects. Special emphasis will be placed on scaling collaboration to meet the needs of multiple Scrum teams and distributed Scrum teams.
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Game Design Master Class
We’ve all been surprised when we learn that an unusual spice is the “secret ingredient” in a favored dish. And some of us wonder what might happen if we started to experiment with that spice – what might happen if we started to redesign existing recipes and design new dishes.
Our Game Design Master Class teaches the “secret ingredients” of serious, collaborative game design through hands-on use of the Collaborative Game Design Canvas™, a structured canvas that enables you to deconstruct existing games, extend them, and create new games.
After taking this class you will be able to create online and in-person collaboration frameworks to tackle complex business problems in strategy, competitive positioning, marketing and product development.
- Introduction to Scrum
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Project Inceptions
Inception should channel the excitement we feel about our future into workplans that, well, work! This workshop starts with the premise that we all have success in mind when launching new projects. Through the use of collaboration frameworks, we can channel energy and experience into products that delight customers and are fun to work on along the way.
- Journey Mapping, User Story Mapping and Paper Prototyping
- Weave for Retrospectives
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CAL1 Certified Agile Leadership Training
Certified Agile Leadership Training, a 2-day course, gives managers and coaches skills needed to foster success in an Agile organization which requires looking beyond Agile itself. It requires a deep understanding of your organization and your own leadership path. To equip you for this journey, you will gain a strong foundation in understanding organizational culture. From there, you will learn key organization and leadership models that will allow you to understand how your organizational culture really works.
Innovation
From the identification of unmet needs to the development of compelling value propositions and business models, our Innovation-related classes helps you innovate faster and better.
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Lean Startup in the Enterprise
Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s breakthrough process for developing businesses and products! By adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning, startups (and intrapreneurs) can shorten their product development cycles! This class addresses teaches product leaders how to leverage Innovation Games® and other frameworks in the Lean Startup process. We cover in-person frameworks for intimacy and online frameworks for cost-effective scaling.
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Designing Great Value Propositions
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Create Extraordinary Customer Experiences
Creating extraordinary customer experiences is a fast-paced, learning-by-doing, experience-based course that teaches you how to use Conteneo’s in-person and online collaboration frameworks to understand customer needs, improve voice of the customer (VOC) programs, develop customer journey maps and user story maps, and energize Customer Advisory Boards (CABs). Focused exclusively on qualitative market research, the course emphasizes the unique benefits of Collaboration at ScaleSM and helps you identify which frameworks and which interaction techniques are best suited towards your goals.
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Innovation Games® for Customer Understanding
Civic Engagement
Based on years in Participatory Budgeting and Deliberative Decision Making, our civic engagement training helps you realize your dreams of making the world a better place. As much as possible, these trainings are offered for free or for a nominal fee, with profits benefiting Every Voice Engaged Foundation.
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Participatory Budgeting
This one-day certification workshop is designed to prepare participants to put collaboration frameworks including serious games for civic engagement to work in their communities. The workshop covers both online and in-person strategies and incorporates several frameworks designed and adapted for participatory budgeting and community improvement.
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