Agile Leadership Workshop

You may be considering agile adoption, or it may already be present in your organization. New skills and roles are defined for your teams, however, your role as a leader may not be clear. This one-day hands-on workshop has been developed for leaders to help them guide a successful agile adoption.

Description

While you work hard to support the needs and directives of senior leadership, you may find areas of conflict when also trying to support your new agile teams. What is your role in this transition, and how can you maximize your effectiveness as a leader?

Audience

Managers, Directors, and executives who lead organizations that are using or adopting agile.

Topics

  • Overview of Agile Values and Principles
  • Comparison of Popular Agile Practices and Processes
  • Shifting from Project to Product Mindset
  • Agile Funding 
    Fixed Budget 
    Fixed Schedule
  • Incremental Funding
  • Agile Leadership, Self-Organization, and Servant Leadership
  • Leading change
  • Leading through Transparency and Trust
  • My Role
    What Should I be Doing?
    What Shouldn’t I be Doing?
  • Evaluating the health of Agile Projects using effective metrics and other indicators
  • Maximizing Business Involvement in Agile Projects
  • Propagating Agility beyond IT
  • Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
  • Software Quality Best Practices on Agile Teams
  • Workshop Retrospective

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