Extended Education

Agile for Managers in Toronto on March 5-7



This new Learning Event is being offered for the first time ever in Markham! This course is built on the combined experience of all the Berteig Consulting partners and principle consultants who work extensively with managers and executives as their organizations adopt Agile methods. Undeniable value! Three days that can be leveraged into millions of dollars of savings in a typical organization!

Introduction: 
Managers and executives struggle to properly support staff and Agile teams and therefore the full benefits of Agile are often left un-realized. This intensive 3-Day Learning Event gives you the knowledge and skill to create high-performance Agile teams and processes anywhere in your organization.
Learning Objective(s): 
Choose and appropriate Agile method and Agile practices for your circumstances and type of work.

 

Dates:

5-7 Feb 2012
Location:

Toronto, ON

Venue:

Courtyard Toronto Downtown
475 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M4Y 1X7
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/yyzcy-courtyard-toronto-downtown/

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Price:

$2500.00

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Agenda: 
  • Brief Review of Agile
    • History (lean manufacturing, product development, software development)
    • Foundations (Agile Manifesto, Declaration of Interdependence, Agile Axioms)
    • Principles (learning/mastery, value-orientation/purpose, self-organization/autonomy)
    • Types of Agile (Scrum, OpenAgile, Kanban, Extreme Programming, FDD, DSDM, Crystal, Lean Software, etc.)
    • Successes (enterprise, startup, non-software)
  • Benefits and Risks of Agile
    • Business Benefits
    • Staff Benefits
    • Project Benefits
    • Operational Benefits
    • Management Benefits
    • Costs for Adoption
    • Ongoing Costs
    • Abandonment Costs
    • Risks and Failure Modes
  • Experiencing Agile
    • Planning a Project
    • Planning a Cycle
    • Executing a Cycle
    • Debrief
  • Choosing an Agile Method – General Considerations
    • Cultural Factors
    • Type of Work (project/operations, business/technical domain)
    • Urgency (business conditions, morale, deadlines)
    • Support (management, external resources, staff experience)
  • Workshop: Agile for Us – Decision Matrix
    • Identifying the Gap
    • Considering all Factors
    • Rating the Factors
    • Sanity-Check
    • Discussion
  • Supporting Agile Teams
    • Servant Leadership vs. Change Management vs. Status Quo Management
    • Removing Obstacles
    • Team Focus vs. Functional, Matrix, Project or Line of Business Focus
    • Performance Evaluation
    • Role Transitioning
    • Training and Coaching
    • Career Paths
    • Metrics, Reporting Up and Budgeting
    • Metrics and Reporting Down
  • Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation
    • Practices
    • Tools
    • Habits and Culture
    • Existing Organizational Initiatives (e.g. ISO, CMM/I, Lean/Six-Sigma, Covey)
    • Adoption and Transformation Models (grassroots, executive, pilot project, practice-based)
    • Agile Transformation Team
    • Building Internal Capacity
    • Measuring the Results of Agile
  • Workshop: Our Impediments to Successful Agile
    • Process Impediments
    • Human Impediments
    • Structural Impediments
    • Cultural Impediments
    • Other Impediments
  • Agile for Management
    • Agile Transformation Team (cont.)
    • Management Teams
    • Other Management Projects
    • Operations
    • Executive Management
  • Scaling Agile / Enterprise Agile
    • Large Projects
    • Program Management
    • Lean Organization / Lean Thinking
    • Agile Interfacing with Non-Agile Work
    • Agile and Vendors
    • Agile and Clients
  • Management Pitfalls
    • Lack of Management Support / Empowerment
    • Resistance to Change
    • Underestimating the Cost of Change (money, time, morale)
    • Team Development / Storming as Failure
    • Success & Failure vs. Crisis & Victory and a Learning Process
    • The Nature of Experiments
  • Workshop: Creating a Plan
    • Where are We Now?
    • Review Impediments (and update)
    • Goal / Vision
    • Support Plan
    • Communication Plan
    • Adoption / Transformation Model
    • Who? When?
    • What Support do We Need?
  • Open Q&A

 

Audience: 
This course is for anyone who is an executive or manager including functional managers, business managers, project managers, product managers. If you have budget or staff who report to you or accountability for any operational, project or business results, this Learning Event will blow your mind! There are no prerequisites for this Learning Event.