Duration
2 hours
OVERVIEW
This agile talk encompasses the set of attitudes supporting an agile working environment. These include respect, collaboration, improvement and learning cycles, pride in ownership, focus on delivering value, and the ability to adapt to change. This mindset is necessary to cultivate high-performing teams, who in turn deliver amazing value for their customers.
Agile mindset is the environment within which agile teams flourish. It isn’t a prerequisite for an agile adoption, nor is it required for a functional agile team. But if this mindset is cultivated and nourished, whether before, during or after agile adoption, the teams (and therefore the company) will experience amazing results - happy employees delivering great value and making customers elated with the results. In behavioural psychology, we see values, motivations, and intent manifest as action. When these two conflicts, we see cognitive dissonance and subsequent action to remove it be changing our minds about an issue or changing our behaviour so the two are in alignment.
Practitioners are thus said to have an Agile mindset when they are preoccupied and sometimes obsessed with innovating and delivering steadily more customer value, with getting work done in small self-organizing teams, and with collaborating together in an interactive network. Such organizations have been shown to have the capacity to
adapt rapidly to a quickly shifting marketplace.BENEFITS
- RESPECT - Most teamwork needs to start with respect for your fellow teammates. At the organizational level, respect for colleagues at all levels of the organization, the customer, and the product itself is also key to maintaining an appropriate work environment.
- COLLABORATION - With increasingly complex systems being built, and subsequently complex problems being solved, no one person would be able to hold all the necessary information in their head to complete a task.
- IMPROVEMENT CYCLE - No process should be written in stone. There is always room for improvement. An organization supporting such behavior would have a light hold on procedural adherence.
- LEARNING CYCLE - Allowing individuals to try something new, and yes, possibly fail, gives the staff an opportunity to learn and improve themselves.
- PRIDE IN OWNERSHIP - Even if no one person owns a particular piece of code, pride in what is delivered increases the desire to deliver high-quality work.
- FOCUS ON DELIVERING VALUE - The main point of an agile team is to deliver value to the customer. The team should be able to focus on what is of greatest value at the time, and deliver with the knowledge that others in the organization.
- ABILITY TO ADAPT TO CHANGE - If the customer calls two hours after a meeting, and wants changes, the organization rolls with it. Any process to manage this change can’t be an impediment to the change.
COURSE OUTLINE
This session, explains the Agile Mindset, essentially, is a movement away from traditional, bureaucratic leadership (which can involve office politics and a “whoever is loudest is right” mentality). Instead, the agile mindset has teams put aside ego, and focus on what is right, instead of who is right. Understanding that the exposure that Agile has not only evolved more than just deliverable related tasks but also has branched out into an actual style of management, innovation, emphasis on customer value, self- organized teams, networking and collaboration with the practice of the methodology.
- Introduction to Agile
- Attributes of Agile
- Agile Mindset and Culture
- Agile Mindset & Behavior Reflection
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Principles
- Agile Lean Practices
- Agile Team Roles
- Building Agile Teams
- Agile Coach or Scrum / Kanban Master
- Product Owner
- Agile Leadership - Servant Leadership
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban)
- Agile Planning Concepts
- Sizing, Estimating, and Planning
- Decomposing Requirements
- User Stories
- Agile Tools for Sizing and Estimating
- Relative Sizing and Story Points
- Planning Poker
- Agile Events - Reviews, Retrospect’s & Releases
- Iteration Planning
- Release Planning
- Iteration Planning
- Daily Stand-Ups
- Review & Retrospective Sessions
- Managing Threats and Issues
- Problem Solving as Continuous Improvement in Agile Projects
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.