Description
Course Description:
This one-day course presents a step-by-step approach to Agile for Executives. The course provides you with overviews of key principles and benefits of applying Agile methodologies.
Course Topics:
Defining the Challenges of Software Development
- ● Making the Case for Change
- ● What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?
Defining the Agile Proposition
- ● Why Agile
- ● The Agile Paradigm
- ● Agile Basics
- ● Agile Manifesto and Principles
- ● Agile Methodologies
- ● Five Levels of Agile Planning
- ● Agile Benefits — including industry data, survey results and personal experience
The Path to Agile Adoption
- ● Dealing with Barriers to Agile Adoption
- ● An Agile Organization
- ● Driving Investment Decisions with Agile
- ● The path to successful Agile adoption
- Learning Goals:
- ● Understand Agile Practices and Principles
- ● Obtain valuable information from industry surveys identifying compelling Agile benefits realized by companies worldwide
- ● Gain insight into effective metrics for managing Agile team performance
- ● Dispel the myth that mid and long term planning are abandoned with Agile
- ● Appreciate how teams and management can build trust more quickly
- ● Discuss the transition from command and control to empower and inspire style of leadership
- ● Explore how to help teams to create a cadence that will enable them to succeed
- ● Understand tools and techniques for promoting transparency in communication at all levels
- ● Identify some of the common pitfalls Agile teams may encounter
- ● Learn from an instructor with day-to-day experience implementing agile practices across multiple organizations
- ● Glean knowledge of Agile team roles and where the Executive fits
