Brainstorming Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) targets beginner to intermediate participants seeking to resolve everyday workplace challenges through gamification techniques.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Design Thinking and its application to problem-solving.
• Incorporate gamification techniques to foster engagement and innovation.
• Develop creative and practical solutions to common workplace issues.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to implement problem-solving strategies.
• Apply iterative approaches to refine solutions through feedback and experimentation.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers, architects, and analysts who wish to learn and apply DDD concepts and practices to their software projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand core DDD concepts (bounded contexts, entities, etc.) and their application in software projects.
• Apply strategic DDD to define and design the domain model, identify subdomains, and establish boundaries.
• Implement tactical DDD using patterns such as CQRS, factories, and event sourcing.
• Effectively refactor and modernize legacy systems with DDD techniques.
• Design and implement product, domain, and team-oriented architectures.
• Utilize data mesh to create a domain-oriented data platform supporting data discovery and governance.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an approach for handling complex behaviors when developing software.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software development approach that focuses on building systems around the business domain, utilizing a shared ubiquitous language along with tactical and strategic modeling techniques.

This instructor-led live training, available either online or onsite, is designed for advanced senior developers who want to apply DDD principles to create robust, maintainable, and scalable systems.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify and model core domain concepts using ubiquitous language and bounded contexts.
• Implement tactical DDD patterns such as entities, value objects, aggregates, repositories, and domain services.
• Design context maps and strategic boundaries to manage complexity across microservices and teams.
• Integrate DDD practices into Agile teams and CI/CD workflows to enhance collaboration and delivery.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical application.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Customization Options

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.

Numerous proven and reliable patterns are widely accessible. Often, the process involves adapting their names and applying them within a specific technological context. This approach can save hundreds of hours that would otherwise be consumed by design and testing efforts. Training Goals This course aims to achieve two primary objectives: first, it enables you to leverage well-known patterns; second, it empowers you to develop and reuse patterns tailored to your organization. It assists you in estimating how patterns can lower costs, systematize the design process, and generate a code framework based on your customized patterns. Audience Software designers, business analysts, project managers, programmers, developers, operational managers, and software division managers. Course Style The course emphasizes use cases and their relationship with specific patterns. Most examples are explained using UML and simple Java examples (the language may change if the course is booked as a closed course). It guides you through the sources of the patterns as well as shows you how to catalogue and describe patterns for reuse across your organization.

Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that leverages empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. This course version places a strong emphasis on the Empathize stage, focusing on linking previously identified pain points to the genuine needs of internal clients, and utilizing dynamic, collaborative activities to convert insights into actionable results.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets beginner to intermediate-level teams and leaders who wish to enhance their empathy skills, strengthen relationships with internal clients, and translate pain points into meaningful opportunities for improvement.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply empathy-based techniques to uncover and validate client needs.
• Translate mapped pain points into clear, actionable needs.
• Engage in dynamic role plays and simulations to practice client-centered conversations.
• Collaboratively redefine problem statements from the client’s perspective.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and guided discussions.
• Dynamic, hands-on role plays and empathy exercises.
• Group workshops for collaborative problem reframing.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized version tailored to a specific internal process (e.g., procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

Design Thinking is a human-centered methodology for solving problems through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping and testing. Focusing on the first two stages — Empathize and Define — helps teams better understand internal clients and define the right problems to solve.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level teams and leaders who wish to strengthen their connection with internal clients, reduce resistance to change, and improve operational efficiency through practical, collaborative methods.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use active listening and interviewing techniques to gather meaningful insights about internal clients.
• Create empathy maps and capture user needs and pain points.
• Differentiate real root problems from perceived issues using tools like the 5 Whys and problem trees.
• Draft clear, actionable problem statements (POVs) that guide solution work.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Practical, hands-on exercises and role-plays.
• Group workshops and plenary feedback sessions.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized version tailored to a specific internal process (e.g., procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live workshop training in Taiwan (online or onsite), participants will learn how to apply the five stages of Design Thinking to better understand the challenges faced by end-users of a product or service, and then develop the best approach to resolve them.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use creative strategies to match customer needs with technologically feasible solutions.
• Formulate a strategy to increase customer value and enhance product and service offerings.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to understand and apply Design Thinking methodologies to drive innovation and improve business solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of Design Thinking and its role in innovation.
• Apply the five phases of Design Thinking to problem-solving.
• Utilize ideation techniques and tools to foster creativity.
• Implement Design Thinking strategies to improve processes and enhance efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level leaders and HR professionals who wish to learn and apply Design Thinking methodologies to foster innovation, enhance problem-solving capabilities, and engage teams effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Equip participants with tools and methodologies to foster innovation and team engagement.
• Develop skills in empathy mapping, ideation, and prototyping for solving complex challenges.
• Apply Design Thinking principles to leadership and HR scenarios.
• Promote a culture of innovation within tech teams.

Overview:

The Design Thinking (DT) process unfolds across five distinct stages: empathize, define the problem, ideate, prototype, and test.

In today's increasingly complex landscape, we often encounter challenges that demand specialized approaches. Design Thinking offers a robust framework for navigating these complexities. By mastering design thinking, individuals can address intricate problems with greater effectiveness, communicate more clearly, persuade more efficiently, and ultimately improve business outcomes. Furthermore, it enhances both organizational culture and personal performance and behavior.

• How DT works: Learn from users and the problem at hand, identify patterns, design a model (accounting for model drift), test the model, evaluate results, and re-engineer as needed.
• The relationship between DT, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• DT methods and tools: persona development, stakeholder mapping, customer journey mapping, service blueprinting, and business model innovation.
• Application of DT: cultivating a design mindset, driving disruptive innovation, adopting an iterative approach, utilizing agile estimation techniques, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, fostering teamwork and leadership readiness, improving communication, leveraging technological savvy, thinking forward, demonstrating intercultural and ethical competency, developing emotional intelligence, self-awareness, negotiating skills, and conflict resolution abilities.

Objectives:

• To grasp the fundamentals and subtleties of DT.
• To explore key concepts, factors, theories, types, and models within DT.
• To experiment with, experience, and practice DT methodologies.

Delivery:

This is a 1-day (4-hour) training course composed of:

• lectures (40% - covering the presentation of theories, concepts, models, and interactive discussions),
• group exercises (30% - focusing on group dynamics, games, group discussions, and mock conflict resolution scenarios),
• individual activities (15% - involving writing, designing, and peer discussions)
• and supplementary materials (15% - videos and reading assignments).

Note: Due to the interactive nature of this course, a minimum group size of 3 participants is required.

Target audience:

Technical Team Leaders, Software Developers

Learning objectives:

This training aims to equip participants with the skills to design advanced development and project structures in C#.

Throughout the course, students will become familiar with MSDN resources and development support tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio and ReSharper.

This instructor-led live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level Java developers who want to utilize design patterns to improve software structure, maintainability, and scalability.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Apply Creational, Structural, and Behavioral patterns effectively in Java.
• Improve code reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Refactor existing codebases using design patterns.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level PHP developers who wish to apply design patterns effectively in their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Identify and implement appropriate design patterns for common scenarios.
• Structure PHP applications using industry-recognized best practices.
• Integrate patterns into modern frameworks such as Symfony or Zend.

This training is tailored for JavaScript developers aiming to design and implement sophisticated web applications. The course focuses on sharing best practices in JavaScript programming while highlighting frequent pitfalls. A key aspect of the training involves exploring object-oriented programming concepts within the JavaScript syntax.