Agile Leadership - Canada

Agile Leadership Training Course Outline

Module 1: 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: Approved Agile Methods

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

Module 4: Agile Manager’s Role

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

Module 5: Need of CEO’s Contribution

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

Module 6: Motivating the Agile Workforce

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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: Agile Culture and Driving Change

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

Module 9: 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

Learning Objectives

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