AR220: iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Advanced Level (CPSA-A): Soft Skills

Training: Architecture

Effective communication is essential for architects to successfully convey ideas across departments. Good IT solutions are only effective if their benefits are clearly communicated. This seminar teaches methods for confidently overcoming misunderstandings, conflicts, and coordination issues, and reinforces what participants have learned through practical exercises.

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Agenda:

  • Fundamentals of communication models and communication types

  • Reflection techniques: active listening and giving feedback, reflection tools

  • Conversation management: one-on-one and group conversations, conversation preparation, follow-up, and process

  • Fundamentals of conflict management: types of conflicts, conflict analysis and resolution, handling objections and criticism constructively

  • Presentation: importance of visualization, advantages and disadvantages of different visualization media

  • Moderation: understanding the role of the moderator

  • Moderation techniques

Objectives:

After completing the seminar AR220 iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Advanced Level (CPSA-A): Soft Skills you will have the tools and skills to:

  • reflect on your own communication style and enhance your personal impact
  • conduct conversations competently and confidently
  • communicate architecture-related information
  • use visualization techniques purposefully
  • convince target audiences of your architectural ideas
  • identify and resolve conflicts
  • facilitate meetings and workshops

Target audience:

The course AR220 iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Advanced Level (CPSA-A): Soft Skills is targeted at:

  • Software architects and developers
  • Systems analysts
  • Technical project managers

Prerequisites:

Certification at the Advanced Level requires prior completion of the Foundation Level.

Description:

Communicating effectively with people and working successfully with them is a crucial skill for architects, as they must constantly sell and implement their ideas across departments. Even the best IT solutions are ineffective if their benefits cannot be communicated in a way that resonates with the target audience.

Have you ever experienced any of the following?:
  • The other person doesn’t understand me.
  • Every conversation with a colleague leads to conflict.
  • The boss rejects good solution ideas.
  • Collaboration with the technical side isn’t going smoothly.

In this seminar, you will learn the right communication methods to handle such situations confidently and competently.

The goal of the seminar is to internalize these methods. To this end, participants will have numerous opportunities to try out what they’ve learned through practical exercises and real-life case studies.

Other Info:

For successful participation in an Advanced-Level-Training, participants receive a respectively defined number of Credit Points. If you want to register for the CPSA-Advanced examination, you need a total of at least 70 Credit Points. The exact overview of Credit Point distribution per course can be found on the official website of iSAQB.

In contrast to the Foundation Level examination, you must write a thesis for the Advanced Level examination. The solution is reviewed and evaluated by two recognized examiners of the iSAQB. Subsequently, the work is defended by the examination participant before the examiners.

This course is conducted in cooperation with the qSkills™ partner Software Quality Lab Academy.

Booking information:

Duration:

3 Days

Price:

1.990,00 € plus VAT.

For in-person attendance, lunch and beverages are included in the price.

Onlineteilnahme 1.990,00 €
Onlineteilnahme Frühbucher
(bis 30 Tage vor Kursbeginn)
1.790,00 €
Präsenzteilnahme 2.290,00 €
Präsenzteilnahme Frühbucher
(bis 30 Tage vor Kursbeginn)
2.090,00 €

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