Presentations, Lunch & Learns
A simple and powerful way to build up knowledge and common understanding within an organization is to host a series of informal learning sessions. Whether the topic is directly related to the task at hand for software development or to discuss more strategic topics, the value of fostering communication with everyone in the same room is tremendous.
Clarrus has built up an extensive list of topics that are key to team project success and can be used as individual presentations or effective Lunch & Learn sessions that bring everyone together. These sessions are highly interactive, with the introduction of best-practices tied closely to a discussion of current practices and how to bridge that gap between them in your organization.
If you’re in the Greater Vancouver area and have a place to gather and a favourite caterer, you’re all set. Just pick a topic, sit back, and get ready for some of the most interesting learning you’ve done in a while.
“On behalf of our Dean Arthur Coren and myself, I would like to extend our thanks to you for making a presentation to our students of Software Quality Assurance (INFO 4320) class. I had the opportunity to talk to our students who found the presentation extremely valuable and they gained a good understanding of best practices of Software Engineering and Technology Management.
We in the department strongly encourage participation of industry leaders to join us in providing well rounded education to our students. We very much appreciate your effort to come to Kwantlen University College for this presentation in spite of your busy schedule and to provide valuable insight into the issues and practices of Information Technology field.” – Dr.Abhijit Sen, Chair, Computing Sciences and Information Systems, & Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, Kwantlen University College
Bring a 6-pack to Lunch
If you want to make Lunch & Learns part of your culture, pick a series of 6 or more from the list below, and we’ll throw in a complimentary offering of our Diagnostic Service, which will serve as a great ice-breaker for the group and set the tone for the rest of the sessions. Feel free to mix and match, but be sure to include the State of Software Practice Today, which is best presented in the context of your diagnostic results.
Topics Available
The following are topics we have provided in the past. We are adding topics all the time, and if you don’t see a topic here that you would like, please feel free to suggest one:
- Inter-cultural Issues in the Workplace
- Prioritization: What’s First on Your List to Santa?
- Project Management for the Rest of Us
- 10 Traits of Healthy Software Development
- A Business Case for Improved Practices
- Random Acts of Quality
- What is Quality?
- Quality Attributes Primer
- Software Development Best-Practices
- Right up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities
- Benefits of a Well Managed Approach
- Benchmarking for the Rest of Us
- A Survey of Agile Approaches
- Customer-Centric Product Development
- A Strong Start: Testing Software Requirements
- The Value of a Project Management Office
- The State of Software Practice Today
- Critical Elements for Software Estimation
- Software Configuration Management
- Change Management
- Holding Our Feet to the Fire
Features
This series gives you the opportunity to provide cost-effective training to your entire group in a relaxed setting that does not pull people away from their desks for days at a time.
Each session is roughly an hour in duration, with ample time for discussion and debate among the group. We will work with you to find a time that makes sense for your group.
Distinctions
This package has several key distinctions when compared to typical approaches:
- Unlike training courses, a Lunch & Learn series allows you to provide rich nuggets of best-practices in an environment that supports discussion of how to apply this information into your organization. Training courses are difficult to schedule, and expensive to administer for the entire group.
- Rather than leaving your group to educate themselves in a haphazard manner, this is a relaxed way to gain a common understanding within your group. You don’t leave learning to chance and there is not an enormous time investment.
Please contact us for more information regarding this series, or any particular topic.
