Succeeding with Agile

This two-day, advanced course picks up where the Certified ScrumMaster and other introductory agile courses leave off. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike Cohn's Succeeding with Agile book, this course will help you move beyond initial success to sustained agility. Attendees should have a solid understanding of agile concepts and the principles and practices of Scrum prior to attending this course.

 

Participants will learn advanced teamwork techniques, including ways to subtly guide a self-organising team and how to ensure that all team members (including designers, architects, and testers) are busy on each day of the sprint. They will discover ways to effectively scale Scrum, in one location or on a globally distributed team. The course will explore what it means to be agile while meeting regulatory compliance requirements, how to overcome common problems, and tools for measuring the benefits of agile.

 

Agile isn’t a final destination; it’s something you grow towards each day. Learn how to iterate towards a higher level of agility, no matter where you are on your journey.

 

This course is licensed from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software.

Duration

2 Days

 

Course Objectives

During this course you will learn:

  • How the same process used during transition can help spread agile or Scrum across the enterprise.
  • How the roles of project managers, functional managers, programmers, testers, data professionals, architects, analysts, and others change in an agile process.
  • Ways in which a leader can influence a self-organising team.
  • How to incorporate technical design, interaction design, and architecture into agile projects.
  • How improvement communities can drive the hard work of organisational change.
  • How to effectively structure teams, including how to make proper use of specialists. 

Audience

This advanced course is suited to anyone who has previously attended an introductory agile or Scrum training course, such as a Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner class. It is also appropriate for anyone with prior agile experience who is looking for answers to the hundreds of questions that arise during any agile adoption.

 

 

Course Syllabus

Iterating Toward Agility

  • ADAPTing to Agile
  • Improvement communities
  • Your improvement backlog

 

Overcoming Resistance

  • Waterfallacies
  • Diehards, Saboteurs, and Skeptics

 

Think Holistically, Work Incrementally

  • Architecture and design
  • Interaction design

 

Measuring the Benefits

  • How agile are we?
  • A balanced scorecard

 

Team Structure

  • Team size
  • Feature vs component teams
  • Guidelines for good structure

 

Teamwork

  • The role of specialists
  • Fostering team learning
  • Knowledge waste

 

Leading Self-Organising Teams

  • Subtle control
  • Containers, Differences & Exchanges
  • Attractors, Boundaries, Identities, Diversity, Environment
  • The self-organising path

 

Scaling

  • Proactively manage dependencies
  • Coordinating work among team
  • Communicating across teams

 

Distributed Teams

  • Decide how to distribute
  • Create coherence
  • How to handle distributed meetings

 

Coexisting

  • Mixing agile and waterfall
  • Governance
  • Compliance

 

Related Courses

  • Agile 101 using Scrum and XP
  • Agile Estimating and Planning
  • Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements
  • Certified ScrumMaster
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner

 

Prerequisites

  • Certified ScrumMaster
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner

Or prior agile experience

 

 

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Course NameDurationPriceDatesCourse Status
Succeeding with Agile2 Days$1,800Enquire

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