Gladwell Academy

"It was a really good training with the right balance between theory presentations (slide decks) and discussions amongst Scrum Masters about the issues we face and (possible) solutions and how SAFe will change the way of working. The only thing that could be improved in my opinion is to know a bit longer beforehand when the training will be. I had trouble clearing my agenda for two full days just two weeks in advance" - 09-01-2019 00:00

"Onze Agile trainer Hanne had erg veel kennis van de materie. Ze wist de theorie aan te vullen met de nodige praktijkervaringen. Ook de groep samenstelling was erg plezierig. Genoten van de training en nu snel door naar het examen!" - 07-01-2019 00:00

"I like: well edicated and especially well experienced Trainers (with deep practical experience), short, but crisp exercises, strong structure of the Course
What can be improved: a Little bit more room for discussion/questions/Experience sharing
" - 03-01-2019 00:00

"I liked the trainers approach very much, in more detail: it was not a standard story-line but "fit for purpose" approach which I liked. Besides the content Andries provided good guidelines how to use the Agile method." - 02-01-2019 00:00

"Bonjour, excellente session, riche en contenu et assez dynamique avec des ateliers qui permettent de bien appr?hender les sujets, Formateurs tr?s bon niveau et qui ont su bien contenir les ?changes, lieu de formation bien adapt?. Organisation de ces journ?e bien g?r?e" - 02-01-2019 00:00

"class room in the first 2 days was too small.
godd experienced trainers. A little bit of a hurry going through the chapters in time. Very little time for discussions about excercises and opinions" - 27-12-2018 00:00

"Interactie met docent en tussen deelnemers was goed. Af en toe vormde de taal een kleine barri?re - de docent was geen native Dutch speaker en de training werd in het Nederlands gegeven waardoor er een aantal malen een disconnect ontstond. Ik vraag me af of alle belangrijke SAFe themas met het juiste gewicht in de training naar voren zijn gekomen, vind ik lastig te beoordelen." - 27-12-2018 00:00

"Hanne is een betrokken trainer die de stof goed uitlegt en veel ruimte geeft aan de deelnemers om eigen voorbeelden aan te dragen en vragen voor te leggen aan de groep." - 22-12-2018 00:00

"Maybe its because it was my first training about SAFe, but many words in terminology were considered as "you must know this concept already" and I had to ask many times clarifications." - 21-12-2018 00:00

"Very useful course. The trainer has good understanding on the concepts and application of them as well. Apart from how to apply, the most important element I liked is we discussed what and why to use SAFe." - 21-12-2018 00:00

"Renata is a very experienced trainer. I liked hear "real-life" examples, which put the theory into perspective.
Improved could be the exam questions, we played some scenarios through and there is lots of room for interpretation. Also when running a dummy-test, it isnt highlighted which of the answers are wrong.
Another thing would be good to hear more on how to convince the organization about the methodology.. but I understand that this is probably something difficult to go over, as this is very individual." - 20-12-2018 00:00

"Er is veel taaie stof, maar ik heb het wel het gevoel dat door de Lego en het zelf presenteren van een aantal principes het toch minder droog was. Het blijft gewoon veel informatie die moet worden overgebracht." - 19-12-2018 00:00

"I already new some terminology but now I understand better what they mean and the total context, which is important to understand their individual contribution. I think it was agood mixture of theory and practice." - 19-12-2018 00:00

"The main trainer (Marijt) was great in every sense, course dynamic, own experience, mood, examples.
With the 2nd trainer, though he has a great guy one could tell he was not as experienced, and it was hard to follow what he was trying to explain." - 17-12-2018 00:00

"I liked the broad overview and good explaination of the priciples and practice of SAF en especially the open discussion on how to manage the change/transition.
I did like the exercise PI workshop, it was however somewhat choatic and it was not explained well what was expected from us." - 17-12-2018 00:00

"I liked the presentation and the dynamic changing of emphasis during the two days dependent on what we as audience expected to get form the course. Also the speakers knowledege of the topic was good.

I found that I could follow the course not having had any previous training in the AGILE framework nor in scrums. There was perhaps slightly too much reliance on the acronyms of scrum and SAFe rather than explaining the terms, but I think perhaps its difficult to give such a course without using those acronyms.

I notice as a native english speaker its hard to reprogram myself to accept the new meaning of words in the specific context of scrum, AGILE and SAFe. e.g. The word feature and the word story are very long established words in english and the meaning, especially the relative meaning, assigned to the words in SAFe is confusing. In english a story can have many features (e.g. its a childrens story, its a short story, its a story with a message, etc.) whereas in the SAFe language apparently a single feature has multiple stories. In the end I could manage and I dont think theres another way to do it." - 17-12-2018 00:00

"I can?t speak highly enough of the trainer, Renate, the bend of using the course material with her extensive knowledge, energy and focus made the course not only informative but enjoyable for everyone. Being able to teach across the boundaries of Text, Picture and Spoken Word style of learning is a great skill. Absolutely excellent." - 17-12-2018 00:00

"I really like the course. The trainers were excellent, and seemed to have really good experience in giving these courses, as well as applying safe in practical situations. It would be really great to be able to have dedicated time during this courses, to discuss some particular situations of the people attending, and just have a couple starting points for going agile." - 15-12-2018 00:00

"Trainer was well prepared, location was near railway staion and easy to reach, many good examples from practice, small group, team exercises went well.
To improve: We couldnt do all exercises and discussions meed to be stopped as time was running out. Course should last 3 days" - 14-12-2018 00:00

"Exercices en contexte int?r?ssants , bonne organisation , lieu de formation gr?able et convivial , de nombreux ?changes et retours dexp?rience.
Petit point n?gatif sur la temp?rature tr?s froide de la salle , controle des participants ? larriv?e (on ne a rien demand? , pas de s?curit?) , pas de toilettes au RDC , visibilit? tr?s moyenne du tableua pour les tables en 2e ligne" - 14-12-2018 00:00