Sky Betting & Gaming launches digital courses for charity

Sky Betting & Gaming is offering tech businesses across the North a chance take part in one of three, two-day courses designed to improve advanced skills in aid of local Leeds-based charity Give A Duck.

Companies can access one of the 20 places on the course in exchange for a minimum donation of £100 to the company’s charity of the year, which provides specially designed play comforters that teach children being treated for cancer how their medication is administered.

Richard Garrod, product director, said “Given we have sought-after advanced agile capabilities within the company and have plenty of real life examples to learn from, it makes sense to throw open our doors to upskill the rapidly growing number of advanced practitioners across the North’s key tech clusters. We’re keen to enrich the regional talent pool by bringing together some of the most experienced people in the North.”

The new and bespoke ‘Lean Agile Product Management Course’ focuses exclusively on more complex product management training.

The Leeds tech boom has seen an increased need for local training and support for practitioners that to date hasn’t kept pace with commercial requirements, Sky Betting & Gaming says.

Sky Betting & Gaming has grown to become one of only two tech unicorns in Yorkshire, valued at over $1bn, by adopting agile software development across its Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker brands.
The sessions aim to help businesses across the North to jump start the speed to market of digital products, explore how to build the right product and how to create better performing teams.

The course has been developed by Sky Betting & Gaming’s 30-strong product management community to ensure it unlocks the immediate business development potential fast-growth digital businesses face.