Agile Leadership Success

Agile methodologies, when applied appropriately and successfully led,  provide excellent  approaches for developing and maintaining product.   Agile involves the iterative approach to development utilizing cross functional teams working together.   It can provide improved quality and predictably while delivering products faster.  Although more formalized today, iterative approaches to development were used successfully by such organizations as NASA and Lockheed’s Skunkworks.  The key success factor for Agile projects is the assignment of effective leaders with the skills to build productive teams and provide the overall guidance and support to the team.

This exciting 2-day experiential-based training program provides leaders with the experience,  knowledge, skills, and confidence to successfully utilize an agile approach to product development. During this unique training program they learn how to effectively build and  lead Agile teams.  Students are completely immersed into a realistic and challenging product development project where they learn through applying practical and proven agile tools and techniques. Topics covered during this three-day program include:

·  History of Agile and Key Agile Principles

·  Agile Methods Compared to Traditional Software Development Lifecycle Methods

·  Agile Methods and Determining Suitability

·  Agile Roles and Responsibilities

·  Servant Leadership and Building a Strong Agile Team

·  Developing the Communications Plan

·  Techniques for Visual Collaboration and Problem Solving

·  Scrum Meeting Management

Agile Planning and Estimating

·  Techniques for Planning

·  Product Backlog Features

·  Optimizing Value

·  Estimating Work

·  Overview of Scrum

·  The Sprint Planning Meeting

·  The Sprint Backlog

·  Conducting Sprints

·  Daily Scrum Stand-up Meetings

·  Sprint Retrospective Meetings

·  Burn-downs

·  Product Backlog Management and the Definition of “Done”

·  Status Reporting and Client Relationship Management

Project Closeout

·  Benefits Measurement

·  Capturing Lessons Learned