Gladwell Academy

"Content was good and the trainer was very competent. More time could be allocated for the exercises because some of the theoretical stuff does not make sense unless practiced. In general, the training was pretty helpful to get a fundamental understanding on SAFe." - 2019-04-26 00:00

"De begeleiding vanuit Gladwell trainster was goed, heldere uitleg, genoeg ruimte voor vragen. Voorbereiding aan Essent zijde was minder, de ruimte op de 2e dag was niet ideaal. Daarnaast soms iets te veel discussie of scrum wel of niet toepasbaar is binnen sommige afdelingen, wat iets minder relevant was voor mijzelf." - 2019-04-25 00:00

"Ik vond het een erg nuttige cursus. Handvaten gekregen die wij in de praktijk toe kunnen passen. Ook geleerd dat wij er binnen onze divisie nog lang niet zijn met scrum werken. Wij noemen het wel scrum werken maar we voldoen niet aan de gehele handleiding. Kortom veel geleerd. Het enige wat ik jammer vind is dat het examen in het Engels is en daardoor bijvoorbeeld de filmpjes en de sheets ook in het Engels zijn. Cursusleidster weet het leuk te brengen en vooral de afwisseling tussen theorie en praktijk spreekt me aan." - 2019-04-19 00:00

"Trainer was really friendly and straightforward, that helped a lot with communication and understanding of the subject. Group exercises were really fruitful and shown us problems we might have not been aware of.
Id like if there would be more group exercises that involved multiple groups, so that we can truly work on scalable teams." - 2019-04-15 00:00

"Zoals tijdens de retro aan het eind van de opleiding al aangegeven, kan ik geen verbeterpunten bedenken. De opleiding was leerzaam, leuk en heb ik met een positief gevoel gevolgd." - 2019-04-12 00:00

"It was a really enjoyable and interesting course. Though my experience might be different due to the fact that we ended up in a really small group. This meant we could have intimate discussions." - 2019-04-11 00:00

"Goede training en bevlogen trainer met kennis van zaken die boven de materie staat.

De training geeft voldoende inzicht ook als je al praktische ervaring hebt als RTE.

Raad dit aan voor alle RTE's bij Aegon." - 2019-03-28 12:50

"De training was zeer interactief gemaakt waardoor iedereen ook veel leerde door te doen. Hanne had ook goed rekening gehouden met de verkorting van de training en het behandel van de essenti?le zaken. Ze heeft rustige en zeer heldere manier van communiceren." - 2019-03-26 00:00

"The content could be focused a bit more in detail on the SAFe method. During day 1 there was pretty some time spent on explaining Scrum and Kanban. For a lot of people (in particular software engineers) this is known information. On day 2 the team breakouts was very chaotic, which I think is very good because the PI-planning events will become chaotic (as warned by the instructors). The trainers (Niels and Kelly) were very energetic and told their story with a lot of enthusiasm. The location and planning were very good and the whole course was very well organized!" - 2019-03-24 00:00

"The training was well explained, with enough examples, explanations and discussions. I also liked the fact that the audience was not too big (less than 20 people) so everyone had the chance to speak up." - 2019-03-21 00:00

"For me, the content was fine, right balance between theory and examples/assignments. Around me I noticed some people struggling how this would fit in ASML. I understand that this was the general, basic training, and that Kelly is working on the implementation, but maybe some connection with ASML and how it could look like in motion would help keeping those people n board... like the short visit from FC057, but then on specific topics." - 2019-03-20 00:00

"Everything was really good, except I have one big issue:

In our group there was some uncertainty/disagreement about the actual benefits of this SAFe training.

Sometimes a difficult to understrand principle of the course, is demonstrated/proven by a short example/ group activity. This is a good thing. But one group activity (Activity: Experience a small batch size, with the coin flipping) is in my opninion NOT proving/related to the slide "Reduce batch size for higher predictability". I even talked to Andres after the training about this issue, (He was willing to stay 80 minutes after class to answer all questions) but i could not come to an agreement wether or not this assigment adds any value to the course.

For me: If you put in an exercise to Prove someting in the course, but the exercise itself does not prove it. (even though it might seem so) i have a issue with this because:
This leads me to doubt the other examples/stories as well.
(Which is not good when you are already sceptical of the SAFe concepts).

" - 2019-03-20 00:00

"We have many nice discussions that I like. As several colleagues already dipped in this SCRUM team and some dont. We do have some nice feeling of been toxxx in the past Program Increment.
Indeed that it is the prime time of me.
I would like to see some genius questions and answers being documented by teachers rational or some of our classmate and shared with us all. A internet of thing like SAFe in ASML Yammer and topic, interesting problems be discussed in our team,FC57 team-wise and FC-XX-wise would be great, too. Especially the dilemma 1.top down or bottom up, culture changing needed that system/frame is designed for in this way but we could not help as the bottom ASML employee could not help on this. 2. the way that SCRUM could facility the growth of people horizontally and vertically in our current role/competency. 3. clarify the role and responsibility of each members in the configuration. 4. The gray area we been discussed thru.
I also like to have a "what do we believe in this SCRUM way" be specified as the common wealth of all the SAFers from this class and put it next to me as motto.
" - 2019-03-20 00:00

"I think the training is very good, perhaps a bit more "games", tasks and exercises for the participants during the day will be OK. Now it is a lot of information to process." - 2019-03-19 00:00

"Complimenten voor Hanne! Deed het ontzettend leuk. Hield het tempo er goed in. Ook ging ze op een zeer professionele manier om met cursisten die lastige vragen bleven stellen. Met veel geduld probeerde ze de materie op verschillende manieren uit te leggen en te verduidelijken." - 2019-03-14 00:00

"Er was een goede balans tussen het overbrengen van de theorie en de oefeningen die we in groepjes moesten uitvoeren.
Hele duidelijke, meedenkende trainster. Ze was open en speelde goed in op de vragen die er gesteld werken de verwachtingen." - 2019-03-12 00:00

"Totale inhoud was goed. Wel veel dus ging op het laatst erg snel. Beter tijdsindeling kan dus beter. Trainer was goed en kon goed de theorie aan de praktijk koppelen met voorbeelden." - 2019-03-07 14:49

"Trainers skill is good in general, always tried to answer for every participants questions.
It was bad sending wrong text book and therefore we couldnt use it during the course.
" - 2019-03-04 00:00

"Eerste dag prima balans tussen theorie en praktijk/activiteit. De tweede dag leek daar minder tijd voor. Teveel ontvangen. Dat i.c.m. temperatuur, slechte stoelen, onhandige indeling en verlichting die steeds aan en uit ging, maakte deze dag te zwaar. Trainer Ali bleef energiek en maakte tijd voor vragen en discussie. " - 2019-02-28 11:35

"I can study basis of Agile Framework. I think it is not difficult to apply with my work soon, but I want to expand this framework to my work/our work." - 2019-02-25 00:00