the art of digital product development:

crash course in full cycle product innovation and efficient implementation management

4 weeks

Course Length

8

Sessions

1,5h

Session duration

All

Skill Level

Live Online

Delivery method

English Latvian

Language

Grow your knowledge and stay ahead of your competitors

Next Course start date: FEBRUARY 3, 2025

TRUSTED KNOWLEDGE

We bring decades of combined professional experience and have worked with such organizations as BBC, Apple, AirBaltic, Latvenergo, Disney, SEB, Sadales Tīkls, Luminor Group, FedEx, Unilever.

Real World Application

The knowledge gained can be directly applied to real-world scenarios within your organization, leading to tangible results and improved business performance.

Competitive Advantage

This course will help you to enhance your career prospects and be ahead of the competition by staying up-to-date with the latest insights in innovation and digital project management.

Market-Ready Products

With the skills to deliver projects on time and uphold high-quality standards, you will be better equipped to bring your ideas to market quickly and effectively.

Course Overview

This comprehensive innovation and project management efficiency course is designed for entrepreneurs, managers or IT professionals, providing advanced knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of digital transformation and IT innovation. Through a series of engaging and practical sessions you will learn to foster innovation, business modelling and customer validation, operate with Agile-SAFe methodologies, and optimize IT delivery for maximum efficiency to shape your ideas into market-ready products on time while upholding the highest standards of quality and will empower you to lead with innovation, efficiency, and confidence.

Completing this course will help you:

Foster Innovation: Shape an innovation culture and understand Lean Startup principles, promoting creative problem-solving.

Optimise Business Strategies: Master business modeling, prioritize hypotheses and conduct customer development.

Optimise IT Delivery: Enhance knowledge, choose frameworks, and apply Agile-SAFe practices for efficient project management.

Drive Continuous Improvement: Master digital tools, measure Agile success, and create a culture of ongoing innovation.

Learning Path

This workshop includes interactive games on the topics of status, leadership, spontaneity and creative thinking. Highlighting the ways that social dynamics affect our thinking, we look at techniques for enhancing the flow of creativity under pressure.

Language: English

By: Jonathan Howard

Date: February 3, 2025

Discover business model scalability, shape an innovation culture, and explore Lean Startup principles in the domain of organizational strategies and IT innovation.

  • Context: Organizational Strategies and Innovation in it
  • Scalability of business models
  • Basic principles of Lean Startup, concept of Customer Development

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Viesturs Sosārs

Date: February 4, 2025

Master the essentials of business modeling, from generating and  prioritizing hypotheses, and conducting customer discovery tests to gain a deeper understanding of the problem.

  • Business modelling (BM): principles of hypotheses generation
  • Most popular tools of BM
  • Prioritization of hypotheses
  • Customer Discovery tests: understanding the problem

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Viesturs Sosārs

Date: February 10, 2025

Enhance your systematic innovation skills through Customer Validation, informed decision-making with iterations, and setting up a structured product development funnel.

  • Customer Validation tests: testing the solution
  • Iterations: decision making
  • Prerequisites of systematic innovation; developing product development funnel

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Viesturs Sosārs

Date: February 11, 2025

Obtain a deep understanding of Agile, from its core principles to practical application of Agile elements, and learn to choose and customize the most efficient Agile framework for your IT delivery.

  • Agile Fundamentals: Principles, Values, Why to Choose Agile for your IT Delivery
  • Navigating Agile: Artefacts, Ceremonies, Roles in Practice and How to Design Your Scrum/Agile Team
  • Agile Framework Selection: Most popular Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Scrum Ban) and How to Choose and Tailor the right one for Your Needs

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Darja Odorovska

Date: February 17, 2025

Discover Agile success prerequisites: waste and risk mitigation, effective process and team modeling, delivery planning techniques, and essential skills in time management, problem-solving, communication, and leadership.

  • Unveiling 3 Main Prerequisites for Agile Success: APM Essentials
  • Agile Process & Team Modelling
  • Predictable Agile Delivery: Planning Techniques
  • Tips for Effective Time Management, Problem Solving Strategies in Agile Environments, Communication Mastery and Team Leadership

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Darja Odorovska

Date: February 18, 2025

Master the art of digital project management tools and their core features, understand the key metrics for achieving Agile delivery success, and foster a culture of continuous improvement in your organization.

  • Digital Project Management Tools and Core Features
  • Metrics for Agile Delivery Success
  • Culture of Continuous Improvement

Language: Latvian/English (pre-agreed with the group)

By: Darja Odorovska

Date: February 24, 2025

This workshop investigates how to use timeless principles of tribal psychology and leadership to reinforce precise behaviours into your organisation’s culture, focusing on behaviours that the students choose from the course. 

Language: English

By: Jonathan Howard

Date: February 25, 2025

For more inquiries about the course, please feel free to contact us at info@cogentia.co

Are you ready to start?

Application Deadline: JANUARY 27, 2025

600€

per participant

Viesturs Sosārs

Innovation & Customer Development

Darja Odorovska

Strategy & Agile SAFe Project Management

Jonathan Howard

Creativity, Culture & Leadership

Innovation Strategy, Digital Transformation and Product Development Consultancy.

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