This workshop will provide an introductory look at agility, the expectations placed on both agile teams and agile leadership, and the organizational culture needed for teams to reach their full potential to deliver improved business results in ever evolving business environments.
Duration: Half-Day
Class Size: Up to 20 persons
Topics included:
- Agility Defined
- Exercise: What do you think of when you hear “Agile”
- The Agile Manifesto Explained
- Exercise: Complexity of changing the “agile” balance
- Projects and Project Methods
- Discussion different types of projects
- Predictive versus inventive projects
- Agile Teams and Expectations
- Discussion of different team structures
- Differences in management/leadership role
- Expectations are place on team members
- Defining and assigning work
- Beliefs of high performance teams
- Characteristics of agile teams
- Decision Making
- Collective decision making
- Consensus-driven decisions
- Rings of decision making responsibility
- The Challenge of Agile Leadership
- Situational leadership
- Characteristics of an agile leader
- Trust relationships
- Leadership guidelines
- Exercise: Discussion of Leadership Scenarios
- Agile Maturity Model
- Keys for success
- Why Should Executives Care?
- What’s in agile for them?