Course Outline
1. Introduction to Agile
- Traditional versus Agile approaches - an overview
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile approaches in a "nutshell"
- Advantages and disadvantages of Agile - a summary of "pros" and "cons"
2. Leadership Model - The Agile Leader: "active doing nothing" and "servant leadership" - defining the characteristics of an Agile Leader
- Evolution of team management approaches - from management 1.0 to management 3.0
3. The Agile Leader as an Ambassador of Agile Culture:
- Defining values and attitudes in Agile.
- Shifting mindsets - initiating and implementing Agile transformation.
4. The Agile Leader as a Coach: coaching, facilitation, training, mentoring, or management - identifying what is effective in Agile leadership practice?
5. Acting as an Agile Ambassador - working within the Agile project environment:
- Identifying customers and project stakeholders.
- Delivering added value for Agile customers?
6. The Agile Leader in Change:
- Key competencies required by Agile Leaders in a dynamic business environment.
- Effective management - applying situational leadership as an appropriate response to various stages of team evolution.
- Guiding teams through organizational transformation.
7. Teams in the Process of Change:
- Viewing the team as an organism and understanding its natural needs.
- The group process as a determinant of change.
- Effective tools for leveraging group dynamics.
- Identifying team dysfunctions and strategies to counteract them.
8. Tools and Techniques for the Agile Leader:
- Management approaches and the leader's role - evolving from the optimization model ("man-machine") to the model of shared management responsibility ("organization-city").
- Facilitation - approaches, techniques, tools, and best practices.
- Fostering a partnership approach - demonstrating values and actions based on collaboration and co-facilitation.
- Planning team work - methods, structural frameworks, and workspace considerations.
- Creating and sustaining a participatory environment through interpersonal communication and collaborative engagement.
- Recognizing and valuing diversity, ensuring inclusion, and activating creativity.
- Leading the team to achieve results and drive continuous improvement.
- Navigating knowledge, change, and learning.
- Leadership practices - organizational approaches to self-organizing teams - understanding the limits of self-organization.
- Forming agile teams - determining who should and should not be a member.
- Addressing the role of traditional managers.
- Agile Interventions
9. Building mutual understanding within the team and the broader organization.
10. Developmental feedback - moving towards empowerment.
11. Managing an Agile team - summary.
Requirements
No prior preparation is required for this training.
Testimonials (4)
The training was practical and straight forward
Mutu Bengui - EMIS - Empresa Interbancaria de Servicos, S.A
Course - Agile Product Management - Growth Marketing
workshops, practical cases
Joanna Nowak - LKQ Polska Sp. z o. o.
Course - Introduction to Agile Testing
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Agile Business Analysis
I really enjoyed the mix of practical with theory. The trainer was also exteremly knowledgable and answered all our questions perfectly
