Duration
2 days
Course Objectives
Essential Agile Leadership is a 2-day workshop organization leaders and senior management. The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation. Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to. This workshop uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help participants learn how to form and support agile teams to achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioural changes that organizations must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach. This workshop will equip leaders and managers to help their organizations change by providing participants with:
- An overview of what "Agile" is, why organizations need it to survive and thrive in a changing world, how it works, and how to quantify its benefits from a business perspective
- The means to identify the potential opportunities and impacts of Agile in terms of business value
- An understanding of how Agile addresses the root causes of business uncertainty and IT project failure and/or dissatisfied customers
- The ability to compare and contrast Agile practices with alternative business practices and discuss how Agile fosters a culture of innovation and enhances financial performance
- An understanding of how to help form and support agile teams using an empirical approach to product delivery
- An understanding of typical challenges that agile teams face and how to support them by removing impediments
This workshop uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises. Purpose of this workshop is to participants learn how to form and support agile teams to achieve better results during change. Training will share how to lead the cultural and behavioural changes that organizations must make to reap the benefits of an agile organization.
Course Topics
- The means to identify the potential opportunities and impacts of Agile in terms of business value
- Why we need Agile Leadership
- How to do value driven product development for your business
- How your organization can benefit from empiricism
- The fundamental elements & principles to make Scrum successful
- The difference between a traditional and an Agile Leader
- Several applicable, practical implementation-tips for becoming an Agile Leader
- How to develop an education roadmap for the different roles in a Scrum team
- How to measure the success of a Scrum team
- Success/failure criteria for an Agile transformation
- Which agile frameworks for organization design?
- Improving Value Delivery
- What’s the difference between product development and service delivery?
- Which framework for Product Development?
- Is service delivery requiring agility or agile framework?
- How to mix these frameworks for an organization?
- Professionalism – The “How”
Who Should Attend?
You are a leader who is involved in the adoption of Agility in your organization:
- You are a manager/leader, responsible for leading one/more Scrum teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners and members of a Development Team
- You are a (HR/PMO) manager/leader, responsible for developing people in the Scrum teams
- You are a Senior Executive, acting as a sponsor for the Agile transformation and want to know how to develop the leadership for the Agile transformation
Premise of this Course
Becoming an agile organization is a profound transformation that requires senior leaders, middle managers, and agile team members to change the way that they organize their work, manage that work, and measure the results of the work. Agile teams cannot do this on their own; they need help from the entire organization. The changes for all involved are profound, but so are the results when everyone’s goals and ways of working are aligned.
PMI PDU Credits
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.