Agile Leadership (Course 3401)

The Agile Leadership Framework

• Finding your leadership style through the prism of established leadership models
• Evaluating prevalent leadership models
• The Agile Leadership Model
• Building your analytical and behavioral skill sets
• Defining the behaviors and values of the Agile leader

Adding Business Value to the Organizational Mission

Appreciating diverse organizational cultures

• Analyzing the characteristics of hierarchal and adaptive structures
• The myth of the broken organization
• Distinguishing complicated, complex and chaotic systems
• Agile and the Fifth Discipline

Identifying business value

• Defining your sphere of influence
• Developing organizational mission statements
• Quantifying strategic plans using metrics
• Tangible and intangible business values

Embracing Uncertainty to Increase Business Value

Recognizing root causes

• Accounting for the planning fallacy
• Determining the effects of complexity on your organization
• The danger of extrapolating the past
• The Innovator's Dilemma

Exploiting uncertainty

• Applying the Cynefin Framework
• Identifying disruptive technologies
• Categorizing Agile and Lean methodologies

The Agile Leader's Toolkit

Lean Six Sigma

• Defining customer value
• Value stream mapping
• Leading effective Kaizens to ensure a culture of continuous improvement
• Eliminating waste in entrenched processes

Agile development methodologies

• Dynamic System Development Method
• Agile Project Management (PMI)
• Scrum development methodology
• Applying the common foundations of Agile methodologies

Emotional Intelligence for the Agile Leader

Cultivating your emotional intelligence

• The Emotional Intelligence Framework
• Identifying resistance to change in your organization
• Applying active listening techniques
• Avoiding group think

Sharpening your influencing skills

• The importance of a leader's vision
• Finding the balance between logic and emotion in fostering change
• Appreciating the importance of reciprocity
• Building an Agile coalition network

Creating an Agile Environment

Empowering teams and fostering their success

• Identifying the structural empowerment required for the Agile team
• Implementing the psychological empowerment required for the Agile team
• Bringing leadership to the Scrum meeting
• The reality of the 10x developer

Problem solving

• Measuring the performance of Agile teams
• The importance of strategic thinking in problem solving
• The application of brainstorming to problem solving

Making decisions in a complex world

• Making the decision right while making the right decision
• Ensuring the "waterfall left hand" knows what the "Agile right hand" is doing

Implementing Your Agile Leadership Action Plan

• Recognizing the importance of action planning
• Creating your action plan
• Signing the action plan contract

Managers and individual contributors who want to lead in an organization defined by rapid change, and particularly one transitioning to Lean and Agile methodologies.