A lecture for organisations · 90 minutes · On site / Online
Agile and Lean Methodologies in Practice
Your team runs stand ups, sprints and retrospectives, and nothing actually moves faster. That is ceremony without principle, and it is the most common way Agile quietly fails. This lecture goes back to what each practice was invented to solve, then adds the half that most training leaves out, the Lean loop of build, measure and learn that decides what deserves building at all. It is written for small teams with no Scrum Master and no Product Owner, and it covers the uncomfortable part too, when a ceremony should be dropped and when a framework is simply the wrong fit.
The content is matched in advance to your audience and goals on a short fitting call.
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Format
- On site · Online
- Built for
- Startup founders, Tech teams
What your audience takes away
- ▸Tell a ceremony that earns its time from one that does not.
- ▸Run a build, measure and learn loop without any formal Agile role.
- ▸Put a real customer feedback loop into the backlog every cycle.
- ▸Choose between a sprint rhythm and a flow board on purpose.
- ▸Recognise when Agile is the wrong answer and say so early.
Who this lecture is for
Built for startup founders and small product teams with no Scrum Master, no Product Owner and no project management office, the audience the local Agile training market skips almost entirely. It also serves research and development leads who want the principles back without another certification track, human resources, learning and organisational development managers programming a team day, and non technical functions such as sales, service, finance and marketing that were told to work in an agile way and never got a translation into their own work.
Who delivers the lecture
Alexander Slutsker
Business consultant, entrepreneur and founder of Mobius Business Solutions
- ✓14 years of entrepreneurship and consulting, dozens of businesses and managers accompanied in Israel
- ✓MBA in Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship
- ✓BBA in Marketing and Finance
What organisers say
Alexander's lecture is simply a must for every pre-army programme or youth centre. Our young people received an amazing, practical toolbox for adult life. The content is delivered in a fascinating way, at eye level.
How booking works
- 1
Get in touch
Send a WhatsApp message or use the form, with the date, the audience and the setting.
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A short fitting call
On the call the content and examples are matched to your audience and goals.
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The lecture is delivered
On site or online, 90 minutes, questions from the room included.
Worked with
- Google for Startups
- הבית לעסקים של עיריית שדרות
- Microsoft Reactor
- GameReady
- SderoTech
- IUCEL
- Resilience & Health Innovation Hub
- International Resilience Institute of Sderot
Want this lecture at your organisation?
Send a message with the date and the audience, and a short fitting call matches the content to your organisation.
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Frequently asked questions
Does this cover Lean startup and MVP thinking, or only Scrum, Kanban and ceremonies?
Lean gets equal weight, which is unusual here. Most local training treats Lean either as manufacturing style process improvement or as a footnote inside a strategy day for executives. The session gives build, measure and learn, minimum viable products and validated learning their own space, because deciding what to build matters more than the cadence you build it in.
Does it work for a small startup team with no Scrum Master and no Product Owner?
That is the intended room. Nearly all available training assumes an organisation that already has those roles, plus a backlog structure and a project office to support them, which leaves a five person team nothing usable. Everything here is scaled to a team where one person often wears three hats.
Do you cover when Agile is the wrong choice and when to drop a ceremony?
Yes, and it is one of the reasons the session exists. Every vendor sells its own framework as the answer, so nobody teaches the limits. Teams leave able to say out loud that a particular ritual has stopped producing anything, and to retire it deliberately instead of attending it resentfully.
Is there anything for managers, given that most Agile adoptions stall at the management layer?
There is, because teams changing while their managers do not is the standard failure pattern. The lecture covers what managers have to give up, mainly the habit of being the decision point for everything, and what changes in how progress gets reported upward. Without that part, teams do the new rituals and the old dynamics stay exactly where they were.
How does this differ from the Scrum Master and Product Owner courses our people already took?
Those courses teach a framework and issue a credential. This one goes at the principles underneath, and specifically at the gap between running the practices correctly and getting a better outcome. It is the conversation for teams who did the certification, followed the process, and still cannot point to what improved.
Part of the audience is experienced and part is new. Will it work?
Yes. The depth is set in advance on the fitting call, examples are matched to the sector, and the base assumes no prior knowledge. Audience questions give the experienced their room too.