The Integrated Service Management Experience: MarsLander®

OVERVIEW

This is not a course; rather, it is a business simulation – a highly interactive training workshop. It is presented onsite at your location, or virtually online to a group of selected team members from an organization.

How do ITSM best practices as well as Agile and Lean methodologies, accelerate productivity and drive business value?

Give us one day and you will learn service value is really all about because you will live through this excellent experiential learning experience!

A GREAT TEAMBUILDING ACTIVITY

Discover how your team interacts and works together while responding to rapidly changing circumstances in this exciting and experiential simulated environment. As the MarsLander scenario progresses, participants will learn how to use integrated service management – proven ITSM capabilities and Lean, Agile, and DevOps practices – to produce tangible results and achieve all mission goals.

As Pink Elephant’s highly skilled facilitator guides you through the simulation every step of the way, this interactive training workshop provides a safe (risk free!) environment where your team can experiment and explore new ways of working together to quickly respond to new business requests and deliver fast, reliable, and error-free solutions. They will accomplish this by changing their respective mindsets, learning to see the organization’s customer as their primary focus, and implementing continual learning and improvement.

The mission: Launch a rocket with the MarsLander on board, land on Mars, and collect valuable data for universities and research centers. The mission director who manages the mission center leads a team consisting of flight operation, navigation, and communication experts. These specialists manage the flight plan of the mission in accordance with the mission goals, as well as contractual agreements with the customers and suppliers. Each member of your team will adopt a role with specific tasks, responsibilities, and authority.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Participants will learn how to transform your current IT organization into a more agile and lean one capable of delivering business value more quickly, efficiently, and effectively. The following aspects will be experienced and discussed:

  • What does managing a service value really mean?
  • How to increase speed and quality
  • Key elements of the Lean philosophy, including how to standardize work practices
  • The principles and concepts of Agile service management, including the ‘Agile way of thinking’
  • Creating high-performing Agile and Lean service teams
  • The benefits of cross-functional teams
  • How to bring development and operations closer together to form DevOps
  • Continuously improving services
  • Integrating vendors into services
  • Developing into a flexible service organization that responds rapidly to changing demands
  • Becoming more customer focused and developing ‘customer thinking’ in teams
  • How to effectively manage workloads (end-to-end) and how to reduce unplanned work
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is a great team-building experience. The one-day workshop is designed for IT practitioners at any and all levels in IT operations and IT service management, software development, and other areas of IT service and delivery. The MarsLander interactive training workshop is especially beneficial for IT organizations seeking to understand what it means to add business value.

LOGISTICS

This business simulation has a strict minimum and maximum number of attendees for both the onsite and virtual online options. For onsite, 8-12 confirmed participants are required. For virtual online, eight confirmed participants are required.

BENEFITS OF BUSINESS SIMULATIONS

Confucius said, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

It is a recognized fact that business simulations where the major component is learning by doing has numerous advantages. To read more about the specific benefits of experiential learning and the logistics involved with this interactive workshop, click here.

PREREQUISITES

There are no prerequisites for attending this interactive training workshop.

PDU CREDITS

After completion of this workshop, you may apply for self-directed learning PDUs through PMI. Certificate of attendance is available upon request.

FEES

To bring us onsite to your location or to present to your team virtually online, contact us at info@pinkelephant.com or 1-888-273-PINK.

SPECIAL BUNDLE OFFER

Purchase the simulation together with any Lean, Agile, or DevOps certification course and receive a 10% discount off the total. Contact us at info@pinkelephant.com or 1-888-273-PINK.

LIST OF BUSINESS SIMULATIONS AVAILABLE

Name Main Area of Focus Format
DevOps in Action: The Phoenix Project DevOps Virtual online, or onsite at your location
The Integrated Service Management Experience: MarsLander® ITSM, integrated IT service management Virtual online, or onsite at your location
IT/Business Alignment in Action: Grab@Pizza Business and IT alignment, business relationship management Onsite at your location
ITSM in Action: Apollo 13 ITSM, process management Onsite at your location
Agile Project Management in Action: The Challenge of Egypt Agile Onsite at your location

Questions?

Click on “Chat” in the bottom right hand corner, or contact us at 1-888-273-PINK or info@pinkelephant.com.

Special Bundle Offer

Purchase the simulation together with any Lean, Agile, or DevOps certification course and receive a 10% discount off the total. Contact us at info@pinkelephant.com or 1-888-273-PINK.