Society and Innovation Trends, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation Sucess Cases
Manuel Mira Godinho and Mário Caldeira

Europe Industrial Digitization Challenges - Germany Case Studies: Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence
João Picoito

Agile Revolution - Agile Manifesto, Values/principles and creation of an Agile Strategy
Jesualdo Fernandes

Business Impact from Digital and Agile Transformation
Fernando Albuquerque 

Scrum, the most used Agile framework
Catarina Soares and Lurdes Toste 

Scaling Agile and Agile Reference Model
Catarina Soares and Lurdes Toaste 

Agile Implemenation - Case Studies
André Pires (Grupo Multipessoal)

Cloud - a Key Enabler for an Effective and Sustainable Digital Transformation
Joice Fernandes (Amazon Web Services)

Agile Challenges - Corporate culture, Leadership and Behaviors
Mário Romão

Business Transformation
Pedro Martins

 

This course will be taught in English.

 

Society's development journey
The impact of technology
Characteristics of digital age
Stages of digital development
Digital market leaders strategy
Digital / Agile in a VUCA Environment
Digital Transformation journey key enablers
Digital Transformation case studies - sucess and failure

 

4th Industrial Revolution - The digitization of Industrial manufacturing sector
Industry 4.0 market trends and economic value
Europe in the Industry 4.0
German Platfform "Industry 4.0"
Standardization and reference models - RAMI, IIRA
Levers for Industry 4.0 - Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, IoT, Smart Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence fields and apps
Artificial Intelligence case study - CyberValley Germany

 

Waterfall model and its challenges/limitations
The road of the Agile Manifesto - from TQM, through Lean, to Scrum
The Agile values and principles
The Agile reference model - Iterative and incremental
Agile value creation to business
The P&A Agile transformation framework
Establishing an Agile Strategy
The RADAR framework

 

The importance of the right corporate culture
How to get the buy-in towards Agile transformation
Agile leadership vs command & control management
Behavioral gaps towards Agile
The strenghts of empowerment and self-organized teams
The workplace conditions
Doing agile vs being agile

 

Understanding the Scrum framework
Overview of Scrum stakeholders and respective RACI
Scrum roles and main responsabilities
Scrum governance - from meeting to ceremonies
Continuous incorportaion of customer feedback
Flexibility to accomodate new customer priorities

 

Estimation techniques and its relevance to scrum model
Budgeting models; the trade-off between cost and velocity
Bargaining power between product owner and scrum master
Control and alarm signals from the Sprint backlog
Risk and consequences of Technical debt in projects
Inspect and adapt as a learning approach
Scoring in Agile, using self-assessment diagram

 

Bristol
Deutsche Bahn
ING
Multipessoal (t.b.a.)
Others

 

Economical benefits of Cloud
Data sovereignty over stored and processed data
Transparently secure and open technologies
Distributed data processing via multi-edge, multi-cloud or edge-to-cloud
Secure and user-friendly operation
AWS (t.b.a.)
Others

 

Time-to-market
Customer perceived value
Productivity increase, achieving double results with only half resources employed
Talent retention, organization of excellence
Waste reduction and quality improvment
Streamline process execution and increased reliability
From operational Agility to strategical Agility

 

Capturing the value of a digital journey through business transformation frameworks
Bi-dimensional transformation, top line and bottom line
Target setting and commitment
Governance models to assure effective implementation
The importance of a dedicated and empowered Transformation Office
The book's methodology
The involvment of all stakeholders, internal and external, in the transformation

 

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  Manuel Mira Godinho

  Vice-President at ISEG, where is Full Professor. Phd from Sussex University and Master from Imperial College, London. Coordinator of Post-graduation in Strategy, Innovation and Prospective.
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  João Resende Picoito

  Partner at P&A. Former Vice-President at Nokia and Siemens. Joined the pioneering engineering teams that developed the first European Digital Networks. Former member of the Statutory Assemblies of University Lisbon and University Aveiro. Former member of General Council of University Aveiro.
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  André Ribeiro Pires

  Chief Digital & Information Officer at Grupo Multipessoal, leading the Digital Transformation. Former Innovation & Development leader at Randstad. Graduation in  Multimedia Systems Engineering and Post graduation in Digital Enterprise Management from Lisbon Nova University.
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  Catarina da Cunha Soares

  Managing partner at P&A. Former Operations Manager at Nokia Global Service Center. Experience in Software Development for a startup company in the area of Optical Communications for the Global Market. Graduation in Electronics and Computer Engineering  from Lisbon Nova University.
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  Fernando Albuquerque

  Phd in Management from ISEG. Professor at ISEG. Software Practice Leader at IBM. Certification in Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance. Master in IT Management and Post graduation in Information Systems and Technologies for Organizations from ISEG.
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  Jesualdo Fernandes

  Phd in Information Systems from ISEG. Professor at ISEG. Master in Information Systems Management from Sheffield University, UK. Graduation in Computing from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.
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  Joice Fernandes

  Executive in Public Sector at Amazon Web Service with more than 25 years’ experience in the global technology industry, in strategic roles, working with an impressive portfolio of multinational companies such as Ernst & Young, Microsoft Corp., Hewlett Packard, Olivetti and Dow Chemical.
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  Lurdes Toste Pacheco

  Partner at P&A. Led for over a decade global projects implementation in Agile at Noki and worked for Siemens, with a scope mostly related to R&D projects for mobile networks. Former Head of Project Management with Telcos ranged from US to Middle East and European customers. Graduation in Electronics and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.
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  Mário Caldeira

  Full Professor at ISEG. Former President of ISEG. Phd in Management from Cranfield University, UK. Master and Graduation in Management from ISEG.
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  Mário Romão

  Phd in Management from ISCTE. Associate Professor at ISEG. Master in Telecomunications and Computers and Graduation in Emgineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. Post graduation in Project Management, with certifications from PMP and PMI. Former Director of Consulting Companies, from Information Systems and Technologies area.
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  Pedro da Silva Pais Martins

  Partner at P&A. Former Service Director at Nokia and Siemens. Graduation in Electronics and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, led Business Transformation projects in partnership with the best international consultant companies in the respective fields. 
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  Vergílio Rocha

  Management Advisor of EDP in the Information Systems area. Former Information Systems Director of EDP. Former Managing Director of CGI. Graduation in Electrical Engineering from Coimbra University.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon for Cloud Computing Services. AWS is worldwide market leader in Cloud Services.

 

With more than 26 years of experience and a permanent staff of 180 Employees, Multipessoal operates in the areas of temporary work, outsourcing, field marketing, information technology, recruitment and specialized selection and facility services, having already more than 10.500 professionals placed daily in Clients.

 

Picoito & Associados (P&A) is a Consulting Company focused in the Digital and Agile Transformation of Companies and Organizations.