Duration
1/2 day
Overview
Programs are traditionally ordered, but in the last decade, they have become more and more “unordered” as program management is increasingly used to manage complex situations in a turbulent environment. These circumstances have given rise to disciplines like agile management and program management, which deal with complex issues that traditional project management is ill prepared to tackle. Program management has evolved from the complexity created by a number of interrelated projects and multiple stakeholders involved, from the need to span from strategy to operations and from the ambiguity involved in constantly emergent decision-making.
Benefits
- an evolutionary and adaptive development, which translates into gradual and measured release of benefits;
- the team as an integrated evolving system where all stakeholders are actively involved
- an approach based on simplicity to improve response to changing demands and turbulent environments
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.
Outline
All About Agile Program Management & Leadership
Learn 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.
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.
Responsiveness as the measure of value (Benefits Management)
A benefit is a positive outcome that stems out of the use of a product or capability; it is an outcome of the execution of the strategy. In agile management, benefits are measured by the performance of the solution and usefulness of the product; not its technical characteristics. In both program and agile management, benefits are measured at operational level.
Using value to respond to opportunities and manage change
If development occurs in parallel with implementation, the program/agile-project team will focus on change as opportunities rather than change as risks and use a value approach to do so. Value is the balance between the satisfaction of the needs and the resources used to achieve this satisfaction.
Evolutionary and Adaptive Development (Decision Management)
Both program and agile management are driven by a clear vision that can be broad at the start and needs to be refined as the program/project evolves. It is driven by the delivery of a series of prioritized capabilities/benefits that, through continual feedback, influence the next stage. Evolutionary methods assume that the solution can evolve and be refined during implementation rather than be “set” in an early plan.
Team as an Integrated Evolving System (Stakeholder Management)
Agile collaboration between all the actors in the process is essential to ensure that the program and its component projects will deliver the strategic objectives. In programs, if the strategic objective and expected benefits have not been defined accurately and prioritized the result will not deliver value. In a turbulent environment, agile management, through its user involvement, ensures that an ongoing stream of working deliverables are produced and well-integrated into a whole.
Approach Based on Simplicity (Governance)
Simple governance systems based on clear objectives and significant requirements will help program and agile teams to deliver benefits regularly and with a high degree of success, while encouraging lots of the innovativeness and flexibility within the organization.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.