Overview
Agile Work methods promise early, continuous and accelerating return on investment for stakeholders and a high degree of job satisfaction for people working in your organization. Yet creating a successful agile organization is difficult. Why? Because agile methods, despite their benefits and simplicity, require a high degree of discipline on the part of staff, management and stakeholders. Due to this need for discipline, and unlike traditional project management practices, agile principles and practices must be understood by everyone involved in the work.
Agile Work provides a basic process framework oriented around empowered teams, effective learning and eliminating waste. A one-page overview of Agile Work is available for download. There are three roles in Agile Work: the Team Member, the Process Facilitator (Project Manager / Coach / ScrumMaster) and the Queue Master (Product Manager / Customer). The training courses offered by Berteig Consulting Inc. are oriented around these three roles.
Team Member Training
The Team is responsible for actually doing the work that delivers the valuable results. In an agile environment, there are a number of specific skills, disciplines and capabilities that team members must develop in order to work effectively. This training program helps team members understand and develop these skills and capabilities.
Topics Covered
The Team Member role: rights and responsibilities • Commitment and Trust • Self-Organizing Teams • Conflict and Collaborative Decision-Making • The Team's Environment • Getting to Done • Test Everything • Organizational Culture • Identifying Obstacles
Course Details
Duration: 2 days from 8:30am to 5:30pm
Breaks: 3 coffee breaks of 10 minutes and 1 lunch break of 60 minutes
Class Size: <30 people (offered both publicly and as a private in-house course)
Attendees must have previously taken the Introduction to Agile Work workshop or have worked in an agile team using a method such as Scrum, Extreme Programming or Lean. A reading list will also be provided.
Outcome
Attendees will learn how to most effectively execute a project, working in an agile team, to deliver the maximum value and stakeholder satisfaction.
