Agile Leadership Course

In this Agile Leadership training course, delegates will learn how:

• To sharpen their influencing skills
• To manage self-organise teams
• To corporate structure of a company effectively
• To implement the principles of Agile development
• To appreciate diverse organisational cultures
• To embrace uncertainty to increase business value
• To use approved Agile methods
• To change patterns in Agile culture
• To implement Agile Leadership framework
• To think and act like an owner

COURSE CONTENT

Getting Started with Agile

• What Exactly is Agile?
• Agile Basic Concepts
• Agile and Lean
• 5 Principles of Lean
• Agile Manifesto
• Principles of Agile Development
• Agile Practices and Tools

All You Need to Catch Agile Leadership

• What is Agile Leadership?
• Embracing Uncertainty to Increase Business Value
• Adding Business Value to the Organisational Mission
• Agile Development Methodologies
• Identifying Business Values
• Lean Six Sigma
• Sharpening your Influencing Skills
• Agile Leadership Framework
• Problem Solving
• Emotional Intelligence for the Agile Leader
  • Cultivating your Emotional Intelligence
• Appreciating Diverse Organisational Cultures
• Creating an Agile Environment
• Implementing your Agile Leadership Action Plan

Approved Agile Methods

• Scrum Overview
• Scrum Planning
• Core Values of Scrum
• Sprint Artifacts (Deliverables)
• Agile Tools

Agile Manager’s Role

• Managers Versus Self-Organisation
• What is a manager?
• Lean Management
• Agile Management
• Agile Leader

Need of CEO’s Contribution

• What is a CEO?
• Roles and Responsibilities of the CEO
• Corporate Structure of a Company

Motivating the Agile Workforce

• Why Motivation is Essential for Knowledge Workers?
• Self-Direction, Self-Organisation
• Learning Enterprise

Self-Organisation

• Letting the Team Go
• Delegation is Not a Zero-Sum Game
• Complex Environments
• Self-Organisation is Not Self-Management
• Self-Organising Team
• Managing Self-Organising Teams
• Visibility and Reporting in an Agile Environment

Agile Culture and Driving Change

• What Corporate Culture is and is Not?
• Hiring and Firing According to Culture
• Storytelling
• Taking Your Time
• Change Patterns

Agile Leadership – Final Thoughts

• Continuous Improvement
• Agile is Not a Place
• What Message Are You Communicating?
• Think and Act Like an Owner
• Role of Leadership in an Agile Company

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.