TP2072
Agile Overview for Executives and Leaders Training
This Agile training teaches executives, managers, and leaders the main concepts behind Agile, Lean, and Scrum to a leadership team and provides a strategic view of how to successfully transform an organization to high performance.
Course Details
Duration
1 day
Target Audience
This course will look at the organizational impact Agile may have on various aspects such as roles, moving to Servant Leadership, creating cross-functional teams and providing visibility tracking and measurement at the team, program and portfolio levels. We will also discuss YOUR role in leading this type of change and cover some of the common challenges and best practices real companies have addressed through their Agile adoption. Finally, we end with a discussion on YOUR own roadmap to Agile adoption.
Skills Gained
The course covers the common leadership agility drivers for change including:
- Managing large backlogs of work with constantly changing business priorities
- Lack of engagement and collaboration between various departments including business customers
- Ineffective planning and estimating for larger initiatives
- Slow time to market, long wait cycles to get work completed
- Errors, rework and miscommunication on expectations
Course Outline
- An overview of Agile, Lean and Scrum
- Why is Agile being adopted?
- A tour of the Agile Roles, Processes and Lifecycle
- The Servant Leader and Empowerment Transformation
- Impact to Current Organizational Roles
- Resource Management in an Agile World
- Business and IT Collaboration as one Team
- Creating Cross-Functional Service/Feature Teams
- Agile/Lean Portfolio Management
- Agile Performance Reviews
- How Agile can fail
- Case Studies and Best Practices for Success
- Developing Your Transformation Roadmap
