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High Performance Agility for Managers

How to lead a high performance agile team in a real-world environment

Class description

High Performance Agility for Managers is a class designed from the ground up for frontline managers of agility teams. In a role that is often overlooked in traditional agile classes, we will help you understand exactly what your role is and how to unlock the highest level of performance in your team.

Who should attend

  • First and second line managers that are new to agile and agility
  • Managers who are frustrated with traditional agile approaches that don't work for the team
  • Anyone who wants to know how to lead a high performance agility team
  • Scrum Masters who want to understand the role of their people leaders in agility

What you will learn about

  • What is the role of manager in agile and agility
  • What a high performance agility team looks like
  • What are the critical practices needed for an optimal delivery rhythm that delights the team
  • How to ensure that your team is customer obsessed and disruptively innovative
  • Advanced techniques that you won't hear about in regular agile training

Class details

1

Principles and outcomes

Learn about and experience the desired agility outcomes and the key principles that we can embrace to support them

2

The role of an agility leader

What are the key responsibilities of a people leader in agility and how it works when wearing multiple hats

3

Establishing a high performance agility team

The critical elements of chartering your high performance team

4

Planning is not a bad word

Optimized lightweight planning at all altitudes including ‘Beyond Agile’ estimation

5

Delighting, not just satisfying, your users

Techniques that keep the team focused on the customer problem and applying both agile and disruptive innovation techniques to solve them effectively

6

Nailing it every day, every iteration

Practical techniques to ensure that your team's iteration and daily cadences feel lightweight and highly optimized for the team's needs.

7

Developing and maintaining team health

Characteristics of a healthy agility team and managing the skills readiness and capability of your team with skills fingerprints.

8

Measuring Awesome Agility

Key information radiators and agility metrics that the team can use to show their success

What attendees are saying

I finally understand how my people leader responsibilities blend with everything I do for my team

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Class Attendee

Loved the sections on measuring agility and developing skills with the team.

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Class Attendee

Great class, always wondered how my role fit into Scrum, exactly what I needed!

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Still have questions?

Check out the FAQs.

Yes, This class has no prerequisite knowledge of agile or any of its frameworks. We will cover everything you need to know in class.

Very practical. This class is designed to provide you with a rich toolkit of actual practices and techniques that you can apply with your team.