Building a Successful Collaboration with Your Digital and/or IT Partner
Professor
Ansis Šķibusts
About the professor
Ansis Škibustus has been in the digital and IT industry for more than 14 years, where 6 of those years he led the digital agency CUBE. Ansis is currently working on product development at Giraffe360. Ansis has gained a lot of practical experience working with clients of various sizes in Latvia and the Baltics, solving the digital needs of these companies together with the team.
Course Description
This course equips professionals with the essential skills to cultivate and maintain successful partnerships within the IT and digital landscape. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of cooperation principles, agreement structures, and the dynamics of multi-level collaboration. By mastering effective communication, conflict resolution, and project management within partnerships, individuals will be empowered to optimize collaboration, achieve shared objectives, and drive organizational success.
Course Goals
Understand the basic principles of successful cooperation in an IT project.
Develop effective communication skills with the IT partner.
Learn how to manage projects together with an IT partner.
Resolve conflicts and disagreements in the process of cooperation.
Evaluate the results of cooperation and make the necessary corrections.
After the course participants will be able to:
- Enhance your partnership management skills
- Improved your communication and conflict resolution abilities
- Optimize project collaboration
Course will be:
Online and In Person
Prerequisites
Teaching methods used:
Active learning
Class discussion
Group work
Homework
Lecture
Study of cases and examples
Topic 1
December 5th:
Basics of cooperation:
Building trust
Establishing common goals
Effective communication
Division of roles
Topic 2
December 19th:
Project management with a partner:
Project planning
Process monitoring
Risk management
Change Management
Communication strategies:
Regular meetings
Progress reports
Solving problems
Feedback
Topic 3
January 9th:
Cooperation challenges and their solutions:
Cultural differences
Exceeding deadlines and budgets
Technical problems
Disagreement about results
Measuring the effectiveness of cooperation:
Determination of KPIs
Evaluation of results
Learning from experience
Professor
Ansis Šķibusts
About the professor
Ansis Škibustus has been in the digital and IT industry for more than 14 years, where 6 of those years he led the digital agency CUBE. Ansis is currently working on product development at Giraffe360. Ansis has gained a lot of practical experience working with clients of various sizes in Latvia and the Baltics, solving the digital needs of these companies together with the team.
Course Description
This course equips professionals with the essential skills to cultivate and maintain successful partnerships within the IT and digital landscape. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of cooperation principles, agreement structures, and the dynamics of multi-level collaboration. By mastering effective communication, conflict resolution, and project management within partnerships, individuals will be empowered to optimize collaboration, achieve shared objectives, and drive organizational success.
Course Goals
Understand the basic principles of successful cooperation in an IT project.
Develop effective communication skills with the IT partner.
Learn how to manage projects together with an IT partner.
Resolve conflicts and disagreements in the process of cooperation.
Evaluate the results of cooperation and make the necessary corrections.
After the course participants will be able to:
- Enhance your partnership management skills
- Improved your communication and conflict resolution abilities
- Optimize project collaboration
Course will be:
Online and In Person
Prerequisites
Teaching methods used:
Active learning
Class discussion
Group work
Homework
Lecture
Study of cases and examples
Topic 1
Basics of cooperation:
Building trust
Establishing common goals
Effective communication
Division of roles
Topic 2
Project management with a partner:
Project planning
Process monitoring
Risk management
Change Management
Communication strategies:
Regular meetings
Progress reports
Solving problems
Feedback
Topic 3
Cooperation challenges and their solutions:
Cultural differences
Exceeding deadlines and budgets
Technical problems
Disagreement about results
Measuring the effectiveness of cooperation:
Determination of KPIs
Evaluation of results
Learning from experience