Heart of Agile Essentials

Two-day sessions for workers, managers, all roles, all industries, learning from one of the creators of the Agile movement.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course gives the attendee practice in the core elements of team success: collaboration, delivery, reflection, and improvement. Each part of the class introduces a topic matching the most recent advances in the agile world, including solution-focused coaching, guest leadership, collaboration cards, project slicing, decisions as inventory, and building a culture of listening.

Group Discussions: Introducing key concepts needed to make use of modern agile development: Decisions flowing through an organization, Cooperative games of invention and communication, Culture and leadership, Trimming projects into slices to follow changing needs in order to meet and maintain deadlines.

Collaboration Cards: These cards are a special construction from Dr. Cockburn, following years of research into what improves collaboration. Learn to use these cards to improve your own collaboration, to work in teams, and to notice how your colleagues are improving or hurting collaboration.

Improvement Exercise: The participants are split into teams with assignments to improve something that matters to them, using the tools in the project.

Decisions as deliverables: Designing a logo - Every design element is a decision. Which decisions should you test with the market first? This is both an individual and team activity that highlights the topic.

Carpaccio Exercise: People work in pairs to construct a spreadsheet that will show the price of a product. The difficulty is not in making the spreadsheet, it is in learning to make the tiniest possible delivery stages so that the business earns the most, soonest, and can respond to changing market needs and changing deadlines. Having great significance to financial executives, it also shows how to manage a project for maximum effect.

Small Projects: Teams put these ideas together to work on small projects, using the ideas of collaboration, guest leadership, culture of listening, delivery in stages, reflecting, and improving, all to practice the concepts learned in the class.

At the end of the course, receive a Heart of Agile Level A certificate showing your achievement.

ABOUT THE TRAINERS

Dr. Alistair Cockburn

One of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto. Voted in "The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes" for his work in Use Cases and Agile Software Development

Dr. Cockburn is an internationally renowned strategist, author of the award-winning Agile Software Development, and Writing Effective Use Cases. He co-authored the Agile Manifesto, the Declaration of Interdependence, the Agile Project Leadership Network, and the International Consortium for Agile.

Dr. Cockburn is an expert on organisational psychology, agile development, development processes, use cases, project management, and object-oriented programming.

Soledad Pinter

Founder of Heart of Agile Europe and Director of Global Operations Heart of Agile, Ms. Soledad Pinter is an agile consultant, coach, and trainer with more than 25 years of experience. She has delivered multiple keynotes and training on the Heart of Agile on several continents, using an informal and interactive presentation style. Sole is driven by her passion for helping organisations, teams and people to become better at their everyday work.