Duration
2 days
Overview
The course teaches leaders how to use Agile principles in their day-to-day interactions with colleagues and team members and how to become an effective change agent and guiding force. At the end of the three-day course, participants will have learned skills and models needed to lead an Agile transformation and organization-wide change. Building self-organizing Agile teams still need guidance and assistance in achieving goals, however, and managers must support these teams by providing direction, assisting Agile Masters to remove impediments, and helping program management and business needs fit in to the iterative cycle.
This course begins by focusing on the Agile values identified in the Agile Manifesto, and by engaging participants to understand how these values change the project management paradigm when shifting from a predictive/plan-driven to an adaptive/value-driven way of working. Managers will learn how to help teams become Agile, as well as identify the most pressing constraints preventing agility. Finally, this course will help the manager understand what it means to lead – not direct or control – a team, and why this is so important when transitioning to an Agile way of working.
Benefits
The Business Case for Agility
- Understand the business trends influencing the need for business agility.
Agile Leadership Development
- Learn a model for enhancing your leadership self-awareness, developing Agile leadership skills, and nurturing an Agile mindset for successful outcomes
Catalyst Leadership Conversations
- Practice an engagement technique to make a positive impact without using a top-down approach and telling others what to do.
Scaling Agile across an Organization
- Explore different organizational paths toward agility and how a culture-based approach has enabled them to achieve business objectives, sustain agility, and adapt to new markets.
Leading Agile Transformations
- Practice a 5-step organizational approach to leading change created and run by the CEO of one of the most successful agile companies in the world – Salesforce.com (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures)
Agile Leadership Compass
- Participants will explore a comprehensive view of Agile Leadership - first from the leader's personal perspective in how agility impacts their thinking and behavior, then from an organizational perspective in how they can effectively align, guide and scale their organization's agility.
COURSE OUTINE
DAY 1All About Agile Leadership – Practices, Application and ConceptsLearn business trends driving the need for business agility within a global context. Understand the Agility Maturity Model that fosters self-awareness of leadership growth and discovers more Agile thinking and behaviors. Explore Agile leadership mindset and behaviors of leaders at varying maturity levels to reflect on leadership traits in our own leadership and in others.
- History and Overview of Agile
- About Agile Leadership
- Leadership in Agile Project Management
- Leadership Combination of Agile and Lean Values and Principles
- Agile Leadership Concepts
- Qualities of Agile Leadership
- Areas of Applying Agile Leadership
- Agile Life Cycle and Leadership Practices
Leadership Practices in Agile Basics & Inspiring Practices Among Team
In this section we will establish a foundation of the basic roles, artifacts and forums utilized by Agile teams. Agile terminology will be reviewed and we will review the complete “process” or framework which Agile teams utilize to achieve success.
- Agile Leadership Manifesto
- Agile Leadership Practices & Principles
- Understanding Agile Leadership Roles and Responsibilities
- Agile Leadership Planning
- Leading Story Gathering Workshops
- Leadership in Estimating Work for Agile Project
- Leadership in Structuring Agile Plan
- Leadership in Developing Agile Plan
- Monitoring Burn-Down & Burn-Up Charts
DAY 2
Becoming Agile Leader – Enhancing Productivity & Quality Improvement In this section, we will review the information you need to know to begin your journey to “Becoming Agile.” Many organizations/teams try to implement Agile without knowing the roadblocks they will face and what it takes to become an Agile team. Explore organizational culture and structures and how they impact organizational agility, speed, innovation, and collaboration. Evaluate multiple case studies of real organizations with different cultures applying various structures to drive effective and sustaining change with positive results. Reflect and share participant organizational structures, policies and metrics in comparison to these case studies and other participant models.
- Leading Agile Velocity
- Monitoring & Controlling Agile Wall Charts
- Stewardship of Product Backlogs
- Mastering & Prioritizing Product Backlogs
- Performing Lead Analysis on Product Iteration
- Leading Quality Product Releases
- Planning on Measures to Lead Sprint Endeavors
- Iterative Backlogs Management
- Iterative Requirement Management
- Iterative Planning Management
- Leading & Facilitating Iterative Review Meeting
- Agile Collaborative Workspace
- About Agile Retrospective
- Inspect & Adapt Retrospective
- Leading Agile Retrospective
- Releases & Project Retrospective
NoteAll sessions contain group activities and case studies to strengthen the understanding of Agile Leadership and readiness to be applied at respective individual’s organization.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.