Accelerated Agility Fundamentals
The foundations of applying high performance agile in a real-world environment
Class description
Accelerated Agility Fundamentals is a fun, highly interactive course that focuses on practical application of leading edge agility techniques to enable a team to deliver at the highest level of performance.
It is focused on helping teams with agility outcomes they desire, not just adopting specific frameworks.
This course introduces participants to a comprehensive toolkit of applying advanced agility from chartering a high performance team, to what your team does each day with flight crews and story huddles, all the way up to longer range planning and applying disruptive innovation.
Who should attend
- Teams that are new to agile and agility
- Teams already applying agile and want to 'remove the frustration'
- Scrum Masters who want to know what ‘beyond scrum’ feels like
- Product Managers who want to supercharge a team's delivery of value
What you will learn about
- What delivering as a high performance team can look like
- How to get into an optimal innovation and delivery rhythm
- How to delight your users in an agility environment
- Advanced techniques that you won't hear about in regular agile training
Class details
Principles and outcomes
We will learn about and experience the desired agility outcomes and the key principles that we can embrace to support them
Time and scope
How to effectively break down and optimize around multiple time horizons and layers of scope
What am I in Agile?
How you can change your thinking about responsibilities and accountability on a high performance team
Establishing a high performance agility team
We will cover the critical elements of chartering a high performance team at any level
Planning is not a bad word
Optimized lightweight planning at all altitudes including advanced estimation techniques
Delighting, not just satisfying, your users
We will cover techniques that keep the team focused on the customer problem and applying both agile and disruptive innovation techniques to solve them effectively
Nailing it every day, every iteration
We will walkthrough practical techniques to ensure that your team's iteration and daily cadences feel lightweight and highly optimized for the team's needs.
Showing our success
We will cover a number of key information radiators and agility metrics that the team can use to show their success
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Likely yes, Agility Fundamentals is designed for teams that are either new to agile, OR have been doing agile with frameworks like Scrum but are experiencing frustrations with it.
Absolutely not! Agility Fundamentals is focused on helping teams with agility outcomes, not just adopting specific frameworks.
Through this lens we will cover how to blend the best techniques from a variety of frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, and Lean but also discuss where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them
We also cover techniques that are considered ‘Beyond Agile’ that can take your team to a whole other level of exhilaration and performance.