Faculty of Engineering and IT students gained an international edge in becoming future leaders by completing an overseas Workshop in Agile Management for Industry 4.0.
Agile teamwork
A group of 12 Faculty of Engineering and IT undergraduate and postgraduate students have recently completed the Workshop in Agile Management for Industry 4.0 at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, as part of their Engineering degree. The Workshop, conducted by prominent experts in agile management and production systems, management theorists, and industry practitioners covered a range of topics including enterprise agility, risk management, finance, social competencies, project methodologies and business modelling.
The program developed my understanding of teamwork and provided a framework of what it means to work in an agile team… As an undergraduate site engineer and budding Project Manager, the concepts of agile management taught will be applicable to implementing more lean and agile techniques to project management.
The Workshop program included on-site visits to several companies within the manufacturing, engineering and communications industries that actively adopt an agile framework to deliver success, efficiency, innovation and profitability. Students reported that the company visits grounded their learned theory in an understanding of how it works in the “real world”.
I also very much appreciated the structure of the program, by which the first week was spent learning about agile management, followed by a week of seeing it implemented to varying degrees within industry.
And, it was not all work for the participants, as a fun social calendar was an integral part of the overall Workshop experience; the social activities included a memorable welcome party and guided walks through the beautiful city of Poznan. Students met, worked and socialised with, a diverse mix of other students from across the world and, through those interactions improved their confidence to work with multi-cultured teams and realised the extent of the opportunities that await them.
Not only do you leave with the achievement of having completed a program, but you will meet so many like-minded people and form international friendships.
Please contact FEIT Global Networks feit.globalnetworks@uts.edu.au for future opportunities like this.