Certificates
Flowdays offers a handful of carefully-chosen certificates. We only recommend what we are convinced of. These certificates therefore reflect the quality and standards that we demand of ourselves.
Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban)
The Registered Scrum Master (RSM) curriculum was developed by the co-creator of Scrum, Dr. Jeff Sutherland. This certification goes beyond the basics of Scrum and the Scrum Master role.
Participants learn:
Essentials of the Scrum Framework with an emphasis on the role of the Scrum Master.
How the Scrum Framework helps deliver products and services faster and with higher quality while cutting cost and improving employee happiness and job satisfaction.
How to leverage lean principles to identify waste in a system, process, or organization.
Techniques and metrics Scrum Masters use to improve team happiness and performance.
The patterns and practices of high-performing Scrum teams.
How the Scrum Master role scales in an organization using Scrum@Scale.
The Registered Product Owner (RPO) credential is a distinguished designation that recognises individuals who can systematically drive immediate business results, uphold a compelling product vision, and return real revenue for their companies through use of the Scrum framework.
A certified Product Owner demonstrates the ability to:
Create and maintain a compelling product vision.
Build a ready Product Backlog.
Deliver the right products in the right order at the right time.
Embrace the role of Product Owner by being knowledgeable, available, decisive, and accountable.
The Scrum@Scale® course teaches the responsibilities of the Product Owner, individual Scrum teams, and enterprise leadership in a variety of large-scale contexts..
Participants learn how to:
Facilitate cross team collaboration and release planning with tens, hundreds or thousands of people.
Create and prioritize a Transformation Backlog to overcome impediments to scaling.
Measure and improve key Scrum metrics at an enterprise level.
Deliver five times as much work without adding new teams.
The Kanban Systems Design and Kanban Management Professional certifications originate from the Kanban University.
The Kanban Systems Design course covers the fundamentals of the Kanban Method. Practical experience of Kanban is provided by a simulation game and hands-on exercises in designing a Kanban board.
Participants acquire an understanding of:
The general principles of Kanban systems
The experience flow in a Kanban simulation
The usage of STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban)
The design of a Kanban system
The design of the visual board and tickets.
The Kanban Management Professional course provides the knowledge necessary for rollout and daily operation of a Kanban system. It teaches participants how to manage, optimize, scale and evolve the Kanban system over time.
Participants learn techniques for:
Managing evolutionary change
Dealing with resistance to change
Feedback loops and continuous learning
Implementing and scaling up Kanban
Balancing demand and capability
Optimizing flow and predictability.
Leadership
The Agile Leadership Journey cooperative's Aware Leader and Practice Leader certifications originate from Trail Ridge Inc.
Because there is no single framework for agile leadership, this global community has created a authoritative platform to provide consistency and quality of learning. This provides global clients with access to dozens of educators around the world without the worry of individual course variations. And it provides local clients with access to the most widely recognised and highly regarded programmes available today.
The Aware Leader and Practice Leader programmes develop leadership insight through increased self-awareness, opportunity to practise, and regular feedback and validation from peers and expert guides over a six-month period. They include support and mentoring as leaders apply their learning at work.
It is also possible at flowdays to obtain the two Scrum Alliance certificates, the CAL-E & CAL-O.
Certified Agile Leadership Essentials (CAL-E)
The courses bring awareness and understanding to the foundations of agile leadership. Discover the way agile leaders think, focus, and behave. The focus on agile leadership essentials equips you to embark confidently on the journey toward leading with agility and championing agile transformation in your workplace.
Certified Agile Leadership for Organizations (CAL-O)
C-suite leaders and directors are now required to shift the way that they think about their organizational culture and employees and become change agents. In this module, participants will gain knowledge, skills, and techniques that will help them to work toward sustainable agility for their organizations. The goal of this module is to bring awareness to the practices and principles of agility and how they apply to business/organizational agility. Through case studies and various models, participants will gain insight into how agile will and can work for their teams and organization.
Lean-agile procurement
Lean-agile procurement (LAP) is an agile approach for complex procurements, where collaboration between people is a key success factor. An example might be international sourcing, where consideration of other cultures usually becomes very important. LAP is totally new and breaks existing rules in a disruptive way.
Participants learn to:
Leverage hands-on agile techniques for more effective procurement.
Make their organization more competitive by significantly improving time-to-market while achieving comparable or better quality.
On completion a participant becomes a Certified Lean-Agile Procurement (LAP) specialist (Credential 1), with a one-year membership of the LAP community.
Management 3.0
Management 3.0 is not another framework, it’s a mindset, combined with an ever-changing collection of games, tools, and practices to help any worker manage the organization. It’s a way of looking at work systems.
It is important to understand that the Management 3.0 community does not believe in applying simple knowledge tests to complex topics such as management and leadership, but instead believes that people learn most when they run experiments and share their findings.
Topics covered by the Foundation Workshop certificate:
Management and Leadership
Complexity Thinking
Motivation and Engagement
Learning and Competence
Delegation and Empowerment
Values and Culture
Growing Structure
Success and Failure
The Practitioner certificate attests that you have attended an event and shared your experiences and experiments in Management 3.0 practices. The steps and activities for achieving this certificate are described in detail here.