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At a glance

Agile Leadership

This course focuses on the leaders and stakeholders outside the Agile project team. It outlines and examines the leadership role in dealing with Agile project teams and teams working in an Agile manner in general.

We look at the leadership behaviours and traits required to be effective and efficient in an Agile environment. We cover the role, responsibility and accountability of line management and team leaders, both de-facto and nominated. We also cover the key areas of 'group wisdom', 'servant leadership' and 'self organising teams'. The course will impart leadership tips and techniques to enable leaders to be more effective and to help them build high performing 'Agile' teams.

This course is part of the Agile Academy curriculum. Software Education is proud to be a foundingpartner of the Agile Academy. 

Intended For

Anyone in a leadership position wishing to lead in an Agile way or who is required to interact with an Agile project team.This course is NOT meant for program managers, project managers or iteration managers. They should attend the Agile Project Management course and if they attend that course then they do not need to attend this Agile Leadership course. This course, Agile Leadership, is an extract of the Agile Project Management course.

Prerequisites

Participants should have a basic understanding of Agile principles and practices prior to attending this course. For an introduction to Agile practices see our Taste of Agile course.

Learning Outcomes

This course equips the participant with the skills and tools needed to become an effective leader of Agile teams, understanding the way leadership evolves to empower and support the formation of high-performance, collaborative teams

Content

Introduction

• What's different about an Agile environment
• Agile values and principles
• A simulation of the Agile development process
• Introduction to common Agile practices

Agile leadership

• What Agile leadership is all about...
  • Wisdom of crowds
  • Servant Leadership
  • Self organising teams
• Lean/Agile principles of flow, pull and cadence delivering effective throughput
• Agile leadership roles within and outside a project
• Agile leadership behaviours in practice
• Getting to a decision and breaking deadlocks using collective knowledge

Supporting Agile projects

• Working with and understanding Agile project teams
• Roles and responsibilities of the project manager and iteration manager
• How to get the most from the Agile project team
• Holding Agile teams accountable
• Project smells

Method Used

Lecturing is kept to the minimum necessary, the bulk of the time is spent in discussions and experiential exercises to apply and reinforce the learning.