Adobe XD Training Course

This instructor-led live training in Norway (online or onsite) is designed for beginner to intermediate participants seeking to address everyday workplace challenges through gamification techniques.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Design Thinking and their application to problem-solving.
• Incorporate gamification techniques to foster engagement and innovation.
• Develop creative and practical solutions to common workplace issues.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to implement problem-solving strategies.
• Apply iterative approaches to refine solutions through feedback and experimentation.

This instructor-led, live training in Norway (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers, architects, and analysts who wish to learn and apply DDD concepts and practices to their software projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp core DDD concepts (bounded contexts, entities, etc.) and their application in software projects.
• Apply strategic DDD to define and design the domain model, identify subdomains, and establish boundaries.
• Implement tactical DDD using patterns such as CQRS, factories, and event sourcing.
• Refactor and modernize legacy systems effectively with DDD techniques.
• Design and implement product, domain, and team-oriented architectures.
• Utilize data mesh to create a domain-oriented data platform supporting data discovery and governance.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) offers a strategic approach to managing complex behaviors during software development.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) represents a software development methodology that prioritizes constructing systems around the core business domain, leveraging a shared ubiquitous language alongside strategic and tactical modeling techniques.

This instructor-led live training, available either online or onsite, targets advanced senior developers eager to utilize DDD principles to craft robust, maintainable, and scalable software architectures.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Identify and model core domain concepts by employing ubiquitous language and bounded contexts.
• Implement tactical DDD patterns, including entities, value objects, aggregates, repositories, and domain services.
• Design context maps and strategic boundaries to effectively manage complexity across teams and microservices.
• Seamlessly integrate DDD practices into Agile teams and CI/CD workflows to enhance collaboration and delivery speed.

Course Format

• Engaging lectures paired with interactive discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical application.
• Hands-on implementation exercises within a live-lab environment.

Customization Options

• For customized training arrangements, please reach out to our team.

There are numerous established patterns readily accessible to everyone. Often, this simply involves renaming them and implementing the pattern using a specific technology. This approach can save hundreds of hours that would otherwise be dedicated to design and testing. Training Goals This course has two main objectives: first, it enables you to reuse widely recognized patterns, and second, it empowers you to create and reuse patterns tailored to your organization. It helps you estimate how patterns can reduce costs, systematize the design process, and generate a code framework based on your patterns. Audience Software designers, business analysts, project managers, programmers and developers, as well as operational managers and software division managers. Course Style The course focuses on use cases and their relationship with a specific pattern. Most examples are explained in UML and in simple Java examples (the language can change if the course is booked as a closed course). It guides you through the sources of the patterns as well as showing you how to catalogue and describe patterns which can be reused across your organization.

Design Thinking is a human-centric methodology for problem-solving that relies on empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. This iteration of the course places significant emphasis on the Empathize stage, concentrating on linking previously identified pain points to the actual needs of internal clients, and utilizing dynamic, collaborative activities to turn insights into actionable results.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets beginner to intermediate-level teams and leaders who wish to enhance their empathy skills, strengthen relationships with internal clients, and convert pain points into meaningful opportunities for improvement.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Utilize empathy-based techniques to uncover and validate client needs.
• Translate mapped pain points into clear, actionable needs.
• Participate in dynamic role plays and simulations to practice client-centered conversations.
• Collaboratively redefine problem statements from the client’s perspective.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lectures and guided discussions.
• Dynamic, hands-on role plays and empathy exercises.
• Group workshops for collaborative problem reframing.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized version tailored to a specific internal process (e.g., procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

Design Thinking is a human-centric approach to problem-solving that relies on empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. By concentrating on the initial two phases—Empathize and Define—teams can gain a deeper understanding of internal stakeholders and accurately identify the problems that need solving.

This instructor-led live training, available online or onsite, is designed for teams and leaders at beginner to intermediate levels who aim to strengthen their relationship with internal stakeholders, mitigate resistance to change, and enhance operational efficiency through practical and collaborative methods.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Employ active listening and interviewing strategies to gather valuable insights about internal stakeholders.
• Develop empathy maps to document user needs and pain points.
• Distinguish between actual root causes and perceived issues using techniques such as the 5 Whys and problem trees.
• Formulate clear, actionable problem statements (POVs) to guide the solution development process.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Practical, hands-on exercises and role-playing scenarios.
• Group workshops and plenary feedback sessions.

Customization Options

• To request a tailored version focused on a specific internal process (such as procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live workshop training in Norway (online or onsite), participants will learn how to apply the five stages of Design Thinking to better understand the problems experienced by end-users of a product or service, then develop the best approach for resolving them.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use creative strategies to match customers' needs with technologically feasible solutions.
• Formulate a strategy to increase customer value and enhance product and service offerings.

This instructor-led, live training in Norway (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to understand and apply Design Thinking methodologies to drive innovation and improve business solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of Design Thinking and its role in innovation.
• Apply the five phases of Design Thinking to problem-solving.
• Utilize ideation techniques and tools to foster creativity.
• Implement Design Thinking strategies to improve processes and enhance efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in Norway (online or onsite) is designed for beginner-level leaders and HR professionals who aim to learn and apply Design Thinking methodologies. The program focuses on fostering innovation, enhancing problem-solving capabilities, and effectively engaging teams.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Equip participants with tools and methodologies to foster innovation and team engagement.
• Develop skills in empathy mapping, ideation, and prototyping for solving complex challenges.
• Apply Design Thinking principles to leadership and HR scenarios.
• Promote a culture of innovation within tech teams.

Overview:

The Design Thinking (DT) framework comprises five distinct stages: empathy, problem definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

In today's increasingly complex landscape, we encounter challenges that demand specialized strategies. Design Thinking offers a robust method for navigating these complexities. By mastering design thinking, you can manage intricate problems more effectively, enhance communication, persuade with greater efficiency, drive better business outcomes, and elevate both organizational dynamics and individual performance.

• Core principles of DT: Learning from people and problems, identifying patterns, creating design models (including managing model drift), testing the model, evaluating results, and re-engineering as needed.
• The interplay between DT, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• Essential DT methods and tools: Personas, stakeholder maps, customer journey maps, service blueprints, and business model innovation.
• Practical application of DT: Cultivating a design mindset, driving disruptive innovation, employing an iterative approach, using agile estimation techniques, and strengthening critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and leadership readiness. It also enhances communication skills, technological savvy, forward-thinking capabilities, intercultural and ethical competency, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, negotiation skills, and conflict resolution.

Objectives:

• To grasp the fundamentals and subtleties of DT.
• To explore key concepts, factors, theories, types, and models within DT.
• To experiment with, experience, and practice DT hands-on.

Delivery:

This is a one-day (4-hour) training course structured as follows:

• Lectures (40%): Presentation of theories, concepts, models, and interactive discussions.
• Group exercises (30%): Activities involving group dynamics, games, group discussions, and mock conflict resolution.
• Individual activities (15%): Writing tasks, design work, and peer discussions.
• Other materials (15%): Videos and reading materials.

Note: Due to the interactive nature of this course, a minimum group size of 3 participants is required.

Target audience:

Technical Team Leads, Software Developers

Learning objectives:

This training aims to equip participants with the skills necessary to design advanced development and project structures in C#.

Throughout the course, students will become proficient with MSDN resources and essential development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio and ReSharper, to streamline the development workflow.

This instructor-led, live training in Norway (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level Java developers who wish to apply design patterns to improve software structure, maintainability, and scalability.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Apply Creational, Structural, and Behavioral patterns effectively in Java.
• Improve code reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Refactor existing codebases using design patterns.

This instructor-led live training in Norway (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level PHP developers who wish to apply design patterns effectively in their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Identify and implement appropriate design patterns for common scenarios.
• Structure PHP applications using industry-recognized best practices.
• Integrate patterns into modern frameworks such as Symfony or Zend.

This course is tailored for JavaScript developers who are designing and implementing sophisticated Internet applications. The curriculum focuses on conveying best practices in JavaScript programming while highlighting common pitfalls. A key component of the training is an in-depth discussion on applying object-oriented programming principles using JavaScript syntax.