Agile for Managers Workshop

Part 1: Introductions, Class Objectives

Part 2: Making the Case for Change
· Defining the Challenges of Software Development
· What is the Problem Agile is Trying to Solve
· What is Lean? What is Agile?
· Agile versus Waterfall

Part 3: The Agile Framework
· Agile Framework and Methodologies
· Agile Manifesto and Principles
o Team Exercise: Teams will discuss which principles would be easy to implement and which would be difficult and share reasoning with the group.
· Terminology and Ceremonies
· Prioritization
o Team Exercise: Teams discusses prioritization techniques and considerations for their industry and shares with the group.

Part 4: Organizational Culture and Leadership Styles
· What is Organizational Culture?
· Organizational Culture Models
· Schneider's Culture Model
· Mapping Agile Values into the Four Quadrants (Team Exercise)
o Team Exercise: Map Agile Values into the Four Quadrants from Schneider's Culture Model
· What's Your Organization's Culture (Team Exercise)
o Team Exercise: Map Agile Values into the Four Quadrants from Schneider's Culture Model
· Agile and Lean Methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
· Matching Agile Practices to Organizational Culture (Team Exercise)
o Team Exercise: What are ways to help Agile Adoption taking into account Organizational Culture?

Part 5: Agile Adoption and Change Acceptance
· Barriers to Agile Adoption
· Agile and Change
· Kubler-Ross Model of Change
· Change Acceptance
· Characteristics of a Change Agent
· Reasons Teams Have Difficulty With Agile Adoption
o Team Exercise: Teams do role playing with a difficult change with one member of team acting as change agent practicing techniques learned.

Part 6: Building and Supporting Agile Teams
· Definition and Characteristics of an Agile Team
· Supporting an Agile Team
o Team Exercise: Teams execute a self-organization exercise
· Agile Teams aligned to an Organizational Hierarchy

Part 7: Management 3.0 (Jurgen Appelo)
· Energize People
· Empower Teams
· Align Constraints
· Develop Competence
· Grow structure
· Improve Everything

Part 8: Continuous Improvement
· Retrospectives
· Knowledge Sharing
· Principles of Systems Thinking (Complex Adaptive, Chaos)
· Continuous Improvement Processes
· Self-Assessment
· Tips for Successful Continuous Improvement

o Team Exercise: Teams start with a problem to solve and take baseline measurements. Then, after practicing continuous improvement techniques, try again and measure for improvement.

Part 9: Becoming an Agile Leader
· Mental Models
· What is Agile Leadership?
· Servant Leadership