Course Overview
Professional Agile Leadership-Essentials course participants cultivate a profound understanding of the integral role leaders play in fostering a conducive environment for agile success. Leaders and managers, while essential facilitators for their organization’s prosperity, may find their roles in an agile organization differ significantly from their traditional responsibilities. Utilizing a blend of teaching and team-oriented activities, this workshop guides participants on how to shape and nurture agile teams for improved outcomes and lead the necessary cultural and behavioural shifts organizations must undertake to fully capitalize on the advantages of an agile product delivery approach.
Who Should Attend
Regardless of what industry to work in, The Professional Agile Leadership-Essentials course is for:
- Leaders sponsoring an Agile transformation or involved in the adoption of Agility in their organizations
- Managers or leaders responsible for developing people on Scrum teams
- Leaders of one or more Scrum Teams including Scrum Masters, Product Owners and other leaders on Scrum Teams
- Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters
Learning Objectives
- Understand how agility can help you improve your organization’s performance
- Learn the challenges teams face during an Agile transformation and how to remove impediments
- Discover the shift in management style that a leader must make when going from traditional to agile ways of working
- Understand the leader’s role in “self-managing” teams
- Learn how to assess and foster the team’s agile maturity
- Discover how to connect values (personal, team and Scrum values) and clear goals to develop high-performing teams
- Identify how to measure the benefits and impacts of agility in your organization
