AGILE in-Depth

Current trainings

AGILE COACHING WORKSHOP-TRAINING

Duration: 3 days

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will be able to work with teams at different levels of maturity
  • You will recognize the next step for the team
  • You will know how to get your team there
  • As an agile coach, you will be able to work efficiently with teams and leaders

Modules

  • Shu-ha-ri
  • Agile coaching competency framework
  • The most important elements of lean and agile basic
  • Agile mindset
  • Methods of teaching, how to teach your team
  • Conflicts: types, what to do, what is your role
  • Mentoring and coaching fundamentals and skills
  • Facilitation basic tools and skills
  • Team start and restart

AGILE LEADER

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the difference between traditional (classical hierarchy) and agile leadership
  • You will understand how agile views status, power, and control and how they can be experienced within the framework of agile
  • You will understand empowerment – what skills you need for this as a leader and as a subordinate
  • How can I make myself suitable for agile leadership and how can I help my subordinates to be agile?
  • Specific leadership tools in the following fields: feedback, planning, metrics, meetings, rhythm, empowering, trust, sharing knowledge, self-reflection, priorities, rewarding

Agile tools

Recommended for those who have already completed the Agile Values Training

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will get to know the world of agile tools, you will get a comprehensive picture and a toolbox
  • You will get more extensive knowledge and have the possibility to try out tools that you are planning to use
  • You will learn about experience, possible drawbacks and advantages regarding the tools

Modules

  • Specific leadership tools in the following fields: feedback, planning, metrics, meetings, rhythm, empowering, trust, sharing knowledge, self-reflection, priorities, rewarding

AGILE METRICS IN PRACTICE

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will have a good understanding what agile metrics are for and where their significance lies
  • You will learn what planning poker, an almost exclusive tool, is suitable for
  • You will familiarize with other measuring tools and the field where they are applicable

Modules

  • What we can estimate and what we can’t
  • Wisdom of the crowd
  • Commitment, estimation, forecast?
  • What we estimate: complexity or something else?
  • Planning poker
  • Other agile measurement tools

WHAT ARE CONFLICTS GOOD FOR

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will learn about the role of conflicts in the development of a team
  • You will learn how the agile mindset views conflicts
  • You won’t be frightened of conflicts in your team
  • You will know what your role is in case of conflicts

Modules

  • System approach of conflicts
  • Conflict models
  • Behavioural patterns strengthening and weakening conflicts
  • The role of SMs in a conflict situation
  • Neutral stance

AGILE RETROSPECTIVES: TOOLS OF CHANGE AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the role and structure of retrospectives
  • You will be able to facilitate sprint retrospectives independently
  • You will be able to use more complex facilitation tools
  • You will be able to facilitate retrospectives of very difficult periods as well
  • You will be able to facilitate retrospectives surpassing the team level with more participants

Modules

  • The role of retrospectives in agile operation
  • The format of retrospectives
  • Basic retrospective techniques
  • Advanced retrospective techniques
  • Good retrospectives
  • What happens after retrospectives

Team health

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will learn the definition of a healthy agile team
  • You will be able to monitor team health
  • You will know healthy and unhealthy modes of operation
  • You will be able to increase team positivity with example and coaching

Modules

  • The definition and significance of team health
  • The role of positivity in team health
  • Positive and negative behavioural patterns
  • Models of team health
  • Measurement, constant monitoring

COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING (3 DAYS)

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will be familiar with basic project concepts, project methodologies and will know how to apply them in given situations
  • You will understand the differences between traditional and agile project methodologies
  • You will be able to plan, start, and implement projects in your everyday work
  • You will be able to solve problems occurring during real projects with a novel approach and tools

Modules

  • The definition, environment, types, and structure of projects, basic concepts
  • Differences between traditional and agile project management and the times to use them
  • Project planning, leading, and closing, crisis management
  • Prince2, PMI, Scrum and Kanban methodologies
  • The communication and human side of project management
  • Practice: following the lifecycle of a fictional project for 3 days
  • Discussion and consultation of personal projects

LEADING DISTANT AND VIRTUAL TEAMS (3 DAYS)

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the difficulties and challenges of leading distant and virtual teams
  • You will get to know the tools and best practices which help you in this leadership situation and practice them during the training
  • You will learn about the latest and most modern project management practices
  • You will be able to manage more complex projects
  • You will be able to manage more serious problems occurring during the project
  • You will know how to manage more projects at the same time

Modules

  • Main problems during projects and the most frequent causes of failure
  • The communication and human side of crisis management
  • Tips and solutions for managing project problems
  • Managing project portfolios, Project Office
  • Practice: managing crises of a fictional project for 3 days
  • Discussion and consultation of personal project problems

Agilis vs waterfall

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand what tasks each method is for
  • You will gain experience in agile planning and implementation
  • You will familiarize with the theory and power of learning by doing

Modules

  • Waterfall and agile: characteristics and applicability
  • Iterative and incremental development
  • The role of sprints
  • Feedback loops
  • Artifacts and client value

AGILE VALUES

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand what agile is and what its main characteristics and values are
  • You will be able to distinguish between Being Agile / Doing Agile
  • You will experience and understand how this way of thinking and operation can benefit a person/leader/group
  • You will understand why we talk so much about agile and why this mindset and methodology is so much in demand nowadays
  • You will learn where agile comes from and where it is headed

Modules

  • The most important values and characteristics of agile
  • What makes something agile?
  • What are simple and complex domains? The Cynefin model in decision making and leadership
  • What is organizational evolution like? What helps us operate in a healthy way at every level of consciousness? – Reinventing Organisation MAP
  • The 12 basic principles of agile and their meaning outside the IT context (as well)
  • Agile techniques, which make everyday operation and work more efficient

FEEDBACK: CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the goal of human feedback in the operation of agile teams and organizations
  • You will know assertive ways of giving feedback
  • You will be open to feedback

Modules

  • Systemic and human feedback
  • Positive (reinforcing) feedback and its role from the point of view of team health
  • Misguiding feedbacks, typical mistakes, assertive formulation methods
  • Receiving feedback, natural reactions, the meaning and significance of mutual vulnerability, active listening
  • Delivering written feedback

AGILE IT BASICS FOR NON-IT SCRUM MASTERS

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the technical terms of developers
  • You will be able to recognize if your team underperforms for IT infrastructure reasons
  • You will understand the engineering practice of the Extreme Programming software

Modules

  • Basic hardware and software concepts
  • How does a computer work?
  • What’s an operating system, a programming language, what does a compiler do?
  • What softwares do developers use during their work?
  • What is testing, what are automated tests like, what is continuous integration?
  • What is (good) architecture and why is it important?

WHY AND HOW TO SUPPORT A PO?

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will be able to mentor POs in the direction business value centered thinking as an SM
  • You will be able to support the PO in backlog management efficiently and actively
  • You will be able to teach some tools to the PO for the preparation of product vision and product roadmap
  • You will be able to mentor the PO in agile value analysis

Modules

  • The concept of business value
  • Business hypotheses, validated requirements, validation
  • Lean canvas, business model canvas
  • MVP and MVP strategies
  • Kano analysis
  • Vision and mission, vision board

HOW TO FACILITATE TEAM EVENTS TO AVOID ANOTHER BORING MEETING?

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will understand the role of a facilitator
  • You will know and you will be able to use some basic tools
  • You will know the concept of deep democracy and acquire the use of its basic tools
  • You will be able to facilitate productive meetings instead of boring ones

Modules

  • The role of a facilitator
  • Collaborative work, collaborative meetings
  • Goal, framework, agenda, parking lot
  • Preparation for a meeting, the role of a sponsor, preparation of participants
  • Thinking hats and guerilla collaboration
  • Visual facilitation
  • Work jam

Team start, restart, reset, liftoff

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will be able to start new teams
  • You will be able to restart teams in the process of or returning to forming
  • You will be able to set goals for growth for teams

Modules

  • What is the point of a good start and restart?
  • The three pillars of team start
  • What to teach and how to teach it during team start?
  • Facilitation tools for team start

ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING (3 DAYS)

Advantages of doing the course:

  • You will learn about the latest and most modern project management practices
  • You will be able to manage more complex projects
  • You will be able to manage more serious problems occurring during the project
  • You will know how to manage more projects at the same time

Modules

  • Main problems during projects and the most frequent causes of failure
  • The communication and human side of crisis management
  • Tips and solutions for managing project problems
  • Managing project portfolios, Project Office
  • Practice: managing crises of a fictional project for 3 days
  • Discussion and consultation of personal project problems

 

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Contact Us

Fruzsina Dénes
MANAGING DIRECTOR
+36-20-447-5253
denes.fruzsina@indepth.hu