InfoQ Opens Enrollment for High-Performing Teams Certification Program

InfoQ has announced the first cohort of its InfoQ Certified High-Performing Teams Program, a structured five-week online training designed for senior engineering practitioners seeking to build and evolve high-functioning delivery teams. The program runs from November 17 through December 17, 2026, meeting twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM CET, with enrollment set at $1,470 per participant.

Program Focus#

The curriculum explores the interconnected dynamics that shape team effectiveness: how organizational structure, workflow optimization, individual ownership, AI-assisted work, and performance measurement influence one another. Participants develop a target operating model specific to their own engineering teams, working through real-world scenarios and organizational constraints throughout the five weeks.

Weekly Breakdown#

• Week 1: Foundation in team design, examining structural choices, cultural factors, and operational practices that enable efficient delivery; participants map delivery bottlenecks and evaluate competing team and workflow configurations.

• Week 2: Deep dive into flow and ownership mechanics, including how dependencies on key individuals or external partners affect team performance; exploration of required shifts to responsibilities, tooling, or procedures.

• Week 3: Integration of AI agents into the software delivery lifecycle, including identifying which tasks can be automated, where human judgment remains indispensable, and what governance or documentation frameworks may be needed.

• Week 4: Engineering metrics in an AI-transformed environment; participants assess different measurement approaches, identify common pitfalls, and determine which signals remain actionable as throughput scales.

• Week 5: Responsible AI practices and ethical dimensions of AI-driven delivery; participants finalize their team operating model and present findings to the cohort.

Delivery and Learning Structure#

Sessions are conducted with a small cohort of senior engineers and architects from different organizations, fostering peer-to-peer learning across contexts. Each week combines four hours of live facilitated discussion (split into two sessions) with time-boxed individual or team exercises that apply the week's material to participants' actual operational challenges. Attendees then bring back real outcomes—what changed, what succeeded, what required rework—for group discussion.