An Agile Mindset is a set of attitudes that facilitate continuous learning. These include collaboration, respect, readiness for change, adaptation, and a continuous openness to learn.
To act out this mindset, it is necessary to achieve high-level performance by teams and individuals by implementing the methodology’s guiding principles such as: “meeting customer needs,” “accepting “changes” as normal occurrences,” “being motivated and motivating the team,” “preferring direct (face-to-face) communications,” “adopting sustainable work rhythms,” and “conducting retrospectives on team performance.”
The training provides concrete and applicable tools to better manage agile practices aimed at activating the team and collaborating in it.
Methodology
The course will be delivered in an interactive mode and will alternate between practice, sharing and lecture moments aimed at acquiring applicable tools. At a preliminary stage, stimuli will be administered aimed at understanding the core principles of Agile methodology.
Goals
- Recognize the principles of how Agile teams work
- Acquire and apply team management tools in a self-organizing mode
- Sharing ideas and best practices for building a widespread leadership model
- Train in recognizing and managing any dysfunctions in the team in a continuous improvement approach.
Program
The keys to collaboration
- How to become a team: a role model
- The accountability mechanisms of team members
- Widespread leadership
- Sharing the team’s vision, mission, and goals
- The definition of team responsibilities in a shared manner
- Roles in the Agile team
- The estimation of time within the team for the selection of user stories
- Bringing the voice of the customer into the work team
- Decentralized decision making tools
Communication and feedback in the team
- Approach to the team and each individual team member
- Tools to define target teams and preside over them (social collaboration tools and boards)
- Retrospectives and reviews: how to conduct them and what dynamics to manage
- Error management to activate the mindset of continuous learning
Team dynamics
- Emotions of team members in a scenario of uncertainty and change
- Building negative capacity: knowing how to pause in uncertainty
- Dealing with emotions and requests for support
- Team dynamics: P. Lencioni’s model the 5 team dysfunctions
- My team: level of productive and relational effectiveness
- Dashboard to monitor the team
- Leading by example.
