New offer of intensive international education programs
at WSB University in Wrocław
Online meeting
with the Intensive international education programs (IMPK)
in the area of Project Management
Let’s meet online for a week of adventure with agile project management and design thinking! Additionally,
as part of the IMPK Project Management, students will take part in a 6-hour module popularizing Polish
culture and promoting Poland.
When: 24-28th October 2022
Where: online
Cost of participation: free of charge
More at: www.wsb.pl/english/wroclaw/impk
What makes a good team when it comes
to Agile?
Agile is all about good communication and collaboration. The
reality is some people are good communicators while others
are very poor communicators. When you want to build an Agile
team, look for teamwork and communication skills. This can be
as simple as someone who looks at you when you are talking to
them. Moreover, having a lower level of technical skills is not necessarily
a blocker because you can teach those skills whereas it
is harder to teach the ‘soft’ skills and the right mindset.
Agile teams need a mix of people who focus on the detail as well
as those who look at the bigger picture, they need creative thinkers
as well as those who focus on the team wellbeing. Knowing
this helps people recognize that they are all valuable and that
a team needs coverage in all areas. It also instills respect for
differences.
It has been proven that higher cognitive diversity correlates with
better performance. Cognitive diversity has been defined as
differences in perspective or information processing styles. It is
not predicted by factors such as gender, ethnicity, or age. Here
we are interested in a specific aspect of cognitive diversity: how
individuals think about and engage with new, uncertain, and
complex situations.
Meet our experts
Daria Lewandowska
Sociologist, MBA Alumnus, Emotional Intelligence Expert, Psycho-social
Skills Master Trainer, ICF Coach and Senior Learning
& Development Consultant.
Her professional experience comprises 15+ years of diverse
learning and development work, including in world’s top high
tech, multinational corporations, research and development
center, and a privately found training company (selfmakers).
She is managing projects in the field of Positive Psychology,
Cognitive – Behavioral Therapy, the Applied Drama Method,
Systemic Coaching and Family Constellation in Business and
Management – one of the most efficient methods of holistic
counseling. She creates online systemic education for individuals
and teams to support their leadership flow and the whole
organizational systems vitality.
Managing diversity and communication in agile teams
Benefits for participants:
• Getting to know what diversity has to do with agile
methodology and what makes a good team
• Understanding what is an Agile Manager / SCRUM
Master’s responsibility when it comes to promoting
diversity and managing a diverse or distributed team
• Acquiring knowledge about refreshing teams regularly
in an agile environment
• Familiarizing with practical exercises on cognitive
diversity
• Getting to know how to model and reinforce psychological
safety in agile teams (participants will learn
tips to create team environments where everyone can
contribute based on anonymized scenarios that illustrate
behaviors that can support and harm psychological
safety).
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Design Thinking is a methodology for creating
innovative products and services
based on a deep understanding of the problems
and needs of users.
Design Thinking is a systematic approach to the innovation process.
The first step is to build an interdisciplinary team consisting
of specialists who can look at the problem from different perspectives:
engineers, technologists, marketing and design specialists,
sociologists, etc. Then, the appointed team carries out,
step by step, the subsequent stages of the method (described
below), using a set of tools and techniques, in order to work out
a solution that can be implemented.
Design thinking is “human-centered,” which means that it uses
evidence of how consumers (humans) actually engage with a
product or service, rather than how someone else or an organization
thinks they will engage with it. To be truly human-centered,
designers watch how people use a product or service and
continue to refine the product or service in order to improve
the consumer’s experience. This is the “iterative” part of design
thinking. It favors moving quickly to get prototypes out to test,
rather than endless research or rumination.
Design Thinking is based on teamwork and marking the area
of cooperation in such different disciplines as technology, marketing
and craftsmanship.
The methodology consists of five stages: empathizing, problem
definition, solution generation, prototyping and testing. The implementation
of these stages does not have to be linear, we can
return to the previous stage at any time.
Meet our experts
Damian Derlukiewicz
Vice Director of the Center for Scientific and Technical Information.
Head of the Visualization and Virtual Prototyping and
Interdisciplinarity and Creative Designing Labs.
Since 2006, the doctor of technical sciences in the field of Mechanical
Engineering. He is the author of about 120 scientific
and research works including national and international publications,
and works for the industry related to the design of
machines and devices, strength calculations and optimization
of machines and especially innovative and creative design using
innovative design methods, ie., “Design Thinking”.
He is a laureate of a prestigious scholarship program “Top 500
Innovators”, Stanford University, California, USA. Member of the
Board and a representative of the University in the platform at the
European Parliament “Knowledge 4 Innovation – K4I”. An author
of many implementations of innovative solutions into the industry.
Thanks to “design thinking” you will develop a new style
of work: 
• more effective because it is based on multidisciplinary
teams
• more creative because it draws inspiration from design
methods
• more tailored to the needs of your client, because
he is maximally focused around the human being –
his functional and emotional need.
Design thinking
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Let’s find out the answers to the questions:
• Are we living in the VUCA world today?
• Have you ever heard about an agile approach at work or in
regular life?
• Do you know what Scrum, iterative development and incremental
delivery, facilitation and modeling are, and how to use
them all simultaneously?
• Do you know who the Servant Leader is and what he does?
• What can the agile approach give us as people and civilization,
and where it will lead us?
We will talk about what Agile management is, at the level of
product development, and project management. We will learn
about the philosophy, Agile Manifesto and Agile values. We will
practice the principles of Agile Management and learn how to
apply them in everyday life or at work. On a life example, we will
get to know the process of Agile Management and we will find
out what roles and responsibilities must be fulfilled in order to
make agile project successful.
In addition to this, we will practice usage of artifacts and Scrum
events, which perfectly complement the Agile Project Management
in the context of solution development. 
Meet our experts
Romuald Krysiak
ApprovedInprogressTrainerofScrum,AgilePM®
,AgileBA®
,PRINCE2®
Certified Scrum Master PSM II and Product Owner PSPO I.
He started his professional career as a programmer many years
ago and then, in 2005, managed his first projects in the IT industry.
He used to work for such companies as Samsung, Grundig,
Vectra or Orange, specializing mainly in the areas related to the
software, hardware development and manufacturing electronic
devices.
He had the opportunity to manage programmer’s project teams,
spread around the world, starting from Indonesia and ending
with the USA. He has carried out projects organized in an agile
way (AgilePM®
+ SCRUM), related to content management systems
dedicated to such clients as Ford or Colgate-Palmolive. He
plays the role of facilitator as well.
Benefits for participants: 
• Getting to know the SCRUM framework and the methodology
of Agile Project Management
• The usage of the SCRUM framework in practical
exercises
• Acquiring knowledge and practical skills ready to be
used at work or study
• Familiarization with certification methods in the areas
of Agile methodologies.
For more information please contact: Project Coordinator: Monika Dziadowicz
monika.dziadowicz@wsb.wroclaw.pl
Agile PM