Amplio Consultant Educators

Audience

This learning journey is for experienced consultants who want to enhance their consulting ability as well as to be able to provide training in Agile at scale, product management, and the team. Applicants for the learning journey must have completed the DAVSC or the Amplio Development Masterclass.

It is also designed for consulting companies to use to both improve their staff and to offer unique services to their clients.

It can also be used by organizations that want to bring tailored, effective training into their organizations at a significantly lower cost than paying outside consultants. One no longer needs to choose between high cost or training that doesn’t fit the organization’s needs and creating your own. It also enables consistency of training across the organization without imposing specific methods on individual teams.

 There is no prerequisite for this workshop. However, most attendees have either taken an advanced team level advanced workshop or the Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant. If you have familiarity with Agile and are willing to do some study to catch up, however, everyone is welcome.  This workshop is geared towards mid to senior-level consultants.

The ACE Program is more than a learning journey. We are a community creating a better way of working – from the team to the entire organization.

Tracks and times we meet

There are three tracks, totaling 14 sessions every four weeks for a total of 128 hours of live Zoom sessions. All sessions are 1 hour in length and are recorded.:

• ACE curriculum: The entire knowledge base of Amplio from team to scale is presented 1 to 2 sessions a week on Tuesdays at 7am Pacific and Thursdays at 1pm Pacific. 
• A Dr. Is In style session where participants ask for advice on current challenges they are having. Every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific.

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Other sessions and discounts

ACE members also get free access to Success Engineering Conferences and special events. Plus discounts to all Success Engineering workshops. The value of these are greater than the cost.

Learning Objectives

Several sessions are led by participants as it creates the opportunity to grow the community and give experience in making presentations. Some of the unique concepts in the curriculum are:

• The mindset of Flow, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints
• Human Centered Design
• Factors for Effective Value Streams
• Using MVPs and MBIs together
• Types of Value Streams
• The idealized value stream
• Core coaching skills
• Miro boards to support decision making
• How to create simple, fit-for-purpose starts

Amplio virtual collaboration boards

Virtual collaboration boards on Miro are more important than ever. While most people use them as virtual whiteboards, their potential impact is great. Take the link below to learn more about the boards and which ones are available to you.

Grounded in the science of learning and integrating coaching

It has been well-established that intensive training over 1-4 days is very ineffective. Over 80% of the information presented is lost in just a few days. It’s why no college teaches this way. People learn best in little chunks and where they can apply it between sessions. The Amplio Consultant Educator learning journey is an ongoing study program. Three one-hour sessions are provided each month. 

Amplio’s approach is based on Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise and Seeing what others don’t: The Remarkable Way We Gain Insights. “Peak” tells us that it’s essential to stretch people’s skills a little on an ongoing basis. Presenting concepts in patterns instead of just practices makes the material more applicable and creates the foundation for continued learning. “Insights” provides methods to enable people to connect the dots of the advanced concepts presented.  These two approaches manifest each week based on a virtual board that participants use to see a problem and learn how to solve it. This not only trains participants in needed skills but these virtual boards can also be used in their workplace.

Great information has little value if it can’t be conveyed in the workplace. Amplio Development, therefore, integrates coaching methods in each lesson.

Learn concepts and practices not in any popular framework

ACEs learn concepts and practices not in any popular framework. We have found these to be essential to be able to tailor an approach to a particular situation while keeping it simple for the adopters. These concepts create a coherent approach and can be adjusted to the situation at hand.