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1-Day Workshop on
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Course Instructors Amr Elssamadisy
and Ashley Johnson, of Gemba Systems
Course Description
Have you tried Agile
(Scrum and/or any other derivative) and achieved only minor
improvements? Are
you looking for more significant results? Are you banging your
head on brick walls
trying to get
the QA/QC to test within the iteration? Do you have twenty
years of legacy code or integrate with hardware development
efforts
which you can't test iteratively? Are you unable to get marketing
to participate frequently and effectively enough? Have you
heard claims of substantial gains by teams using Agile -
and wondered
what they're doing different from you?
Personal Agility is a workshop for individuals who have started adopting Agile
and not yet experienced the full benefits. Whether self taught or having
learned through a formal method of training and certification, most new-comers
to Agile apply the practices but encounter many problems and fail to harness
the real power available to them. Such teams make some progress but frequently
find obstacles to Agile in their real world environment.
This one day workshop helps you start to
change that. Unlike conventional training, this intensely experiential
workshop
teaches participants about the fundamental individual skills
that fuel hyper-productive teams. Lecture and exercise are
interleaved to make human dynamics concrete and actionable.
Participants experience personal breakthroughs, and leave
with actionable items to increase their effectiveness as
team members and members of their wider organization.
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REGISTER
HERE. Price: $99 per student.
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Related Links
1) Infoq interview: Amr
Elssamadisy on Making Agile Stick
2) Amr's blog: Recognize
And Respond
3) Amr on Agile Journal: Personal
Agility
Intended Audience
Members of Agile teams, their collaborators,
stakeholders, and management.
Participants should have prior
experience
with Agile, having worked in Agile teams or been stakeholders
of them, for at least
3 - 4 iterations. This is not an introduction to Agile methods.
It is extremely beneficial for whole teams
to participate in this workshop together.
The Instructors
Amr Elssamadisy
Amr Elssamadisy, a partner
at Gemba Systems is a software development practitioner who helps
his clients build better software that is more valuable to their
organizations. Amr and
his colleagues at Gemba Systems help both small and large development teams
learn new technologies, adopt and adapt appropriate Agile development practices,
and focus their efforts
to maximize the value they bring to their organizations. Amr's technical background
and experience in C/C++, Java/J2EE, and .NET, allows him to appreciate the
problems of and support development teams 'in the trenches'.
(NOTE: One of Amr's books: Agile
Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success)
....at the same time, Amr teaches that most
problems - even in software - are "people problems",
and therefore are not solved by tools and technology. Therefore,
Amr and his colleagues at Gemba Systems are focused on helping
their clients build better software within their organizations
by focusing on issues such as personal agility, team-building,
communication, feedback, and all of the other soft skills that
distinguish excellent teams. Amr is also the author of Agile
Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success, and Patterns of
Agile Practice Adoption: The Technical Cluster. He is the lead
editor for the AgileQ at InfoQ and a frequent presenter at software
development conferences.
Ashley Johnson
Ashley Johnson is a partner
at Gemba Systems. He has over 10 years of Agile experience and
has advised and
coached teams and organizations of all sizes. He is an invited
speaker at Agile2008 and Agile2009 on group dynamics and
the social teamwork. Learn
more at www.gembasystems.com.
Structure
This workshop is one day of training that
is experiential and exercise-based. There is minimal lecture
to kick off exercise and group activities. After the exercises,
the group reflects on the collective and individual learning
that is taking place.
Results
Individuals exit the class understanding a core aspect of hyper-productive
teams and the individual skills that they can learn to
improve their current results.
Teams attending this workshop
together get real leverage from this class. Teams that
attend this class exit the experience with new team-level skills
that clarify team objectives and improve team-level results.
Through this hands-on
work, participants learn how to:
- Create Personal
Agility - the essential behaviors for individuals to achieve
effective teamwork,
o Identify critical success factors for any high performance
team - and recognize gaps in your team(s),
- Replace conflict and "silo
behavior" with tightly aligned teams,
- Use problems in applying Agile as
an early warning system - to expose hidden sources of project failure and correct
course,
- Leave with a concrete
action plan for next steps to apply
the next business,
- Deliver on the promise of Agile.
Pricing
$99 for the one-day class including materials
and everything needed to attend.
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REGISTER
HERE. Price: $99 per student.
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Course Outline
This is an experiential course where you learn
by doing.
Part 01
* Introduction: task, schedule,
and expectations for the day.
* Five foundational concepts and mental models.
Part 02
* Exercise: characteristics of
highly effective teams.
* Exercise: where's the bottleneck?
* Exercise: defined and empirical methods.
* Exercise: value gaps.
* Exercise: 3 problems.
* Personal Agility: ownership and responsibility,
the 3 keys, developing confronting skills, responsibility
vs. accountability.
* Agile connections and Agile as an auto-diagnostic.
* Team
agility, shared task, agreements, breakthrough curve
* Exercise:
Do we unconsciously avoid ownership?
* Exercise: content vs. confront.
* Improving effectiveness of specific Agile events: retrospective,
reviews and demos, iteration planning, standup meetings.
* The
essence of Agile.
Part 03
* Congratulations,
you reached the base of the mountain!
* Exercise: Punch lists vs Action lists.
* Exercise: Wouldn't it be great if?
* Exercise: Next steps (multi-part exercise).
* Exercise: Commitments and accountability.
Related Links
1) Infoq interview:
Amr Elssamadisy on Making Agile Stick
2) Amr's blog: Recognize
And Respond
3)
Amr on Agile Journal: Personal
Agility
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REGISTER HERE. Price: $99 per
student.
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