01. Why Is Agility Relevant Today?

02. Learning

03. The Team

04. The Leader

05. Kanban

What is this simple but great tool for? How to organise a team’s life around 3 rules?

06. Communication

The heart of human relationships – the key to well-functioning agile teams. It will never be perfect, but it can always be improved!

07. Meeting Culture

08. Efficiency

09. Value

10. Retrospective

The retrospective is perhaps the most important agile discussion. What makes it valuable? How does it serve the development of agile teams?

11. Transparency

12. Decision-Making

Agility offers a new approach also to decision making. How do we restructure decisions, increasing ownership and commitment in the team?

13. Proactivity

“If the world is beautiful one day and inhospitable the next, the difference is ME.” (Rudolf Steiner)

What am I doing in the world, for the world?

01. Values and principles

• What are the principles of agility that work really well?
• The Agile Manifesto:
  • How was it born?
  • What are the principles?
  • What does a PO need to do with it?
• The 12 agile principles, analyzed in three groups:
  • Value and customer focus
  • Flexibility, ability to change
  • Self-organising teamwork
• 3 pillars of SCRUM:
  • Transparency
  • Observation
  • Adaptation

02. Standup

• Why is standup important and how does it relate to agility?
• What to do and what to avoid – standup do’s and don’ts
• Coffee or whip? – lessons from our own standup practice
• Good standup in practice – tips, tricks
• Extras tips and tricks from the pro’s – how do exceptionally effective teams do it?

03. Metrics

• Why do we measure and how?
• Agile tools for agile measurement
• Team effectiveness metrics
• Rules of measurement

04. Sprint Target

• How is a sprint target created?
• The art of sprint goal creation – What distinguishes a good sprint goal from a not so good one?
• Frequently asked questions

05. Product and Sprint backlog

• Product backlog
  • Characteristics of a well maintained product backlog
  • How is it generated and what items can be included?
• Sprint backlog
  • How is it different from a product backlog?
  • How is it created and what items can be included?
• What happens to the backlogs at each ceremony?
• Three extra questions about the backlog

06. Ceremonies from the PO Perspective

What makes them successful and how can they be of real value to the team?

• Sprint planning
• Daily Standup
• Review
• Retrospective

07. Backlog management

• Backlog refinement and DEEP – 5 steps for backlog maintenance
• Adding new items, populating the backlog
• Deleting items
• Developing items
• Organising items
  • Types of work
  • Dual-track backlog
  • Circle backlog
• Backlog sequencing

08. Best practices

• Agile practices for collaboration
• Practices for increasing the quality of execution
  • Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Definition of Ready (DoR )
• Practices supporting planning
  • Estimation
  • Common unit of measurement (Story point)
  • Velocity

09. Kanban

• What is kanban and what is it for?
  • What are its main rules?
  • Is it better than scrum?
• Workflow visualisation in a nutshell
• WIP limit – why, how?
• Main metrics worth using
• Six Rules – recipe for a tasty kanban
• Teamwork with kanban

10. Writing a User Story

• Definition and origin of the User Story
• The guiding principles of the User Story – the concept of 3C and Invest
• Persona
• Acceptance criteria
• Typical mistakes when using US

11. Mapping and Slicing User Stories

• How do we create stories of real value in practice?
• What is the ideal user story size and how do we break them down to the right size?

01. Backlog Knowledge

• How is work created in an agile organisation?
• What agile principles do we organise our lives around?
  • User perspective
  • Appropriately sized tasks
  • Transparent task management
• Backlog basics and types
  • Product backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Kanban
• The core element of work: the User Story
• How to make it work in everyday life?
  • Customer focus
  • Customer value
  • Vertical slices

02. Ceremonies

• Planning
• Daily Standup
• Review
• Retrospective
• What do ceremonies look like in practice?
• Refinement
• Tribe level ceremonies

03. The Team

Why is teamwork so important in 21st century organisations? Why optimize for teams rather than individuals?

• The essentials of a good agile team
• The secret of high performing teams
• Team development – what are the phases and how can you help your team through them?

04. Daily work

• What are the two skills that make us really successful in today’s world – focus and decision-making
• Individual productivity
• Team-level productivity
• The key to long-term productivity – a sustainable rhythm

05. Quality

Why and how does agility focus on quality?

• Traditional and agile approaches to quality
  
• Dealing with errors
  
• Quality in practice

06. MVP

How to “experiment” with ideas without paying a high price?

• MVP basics – what is a Minimum Viable Product and why can it be useful for us?
• More about hypothesis testing
• MVP types
• MVP in a large company

07. Reliability and Efficiency

• Sustainable speed
  
• Avoiding waste – the concept of waste based on LEAN
  
• Avoiding burnout

01. Roles and responsibilities

• About the CL role in general – role definition, responsibilities
  
• Professional development at individual level – tools to enhance intrinsic motivation
  
• Professional development at chapter level – vision, guidelines, professional opportunities
  
• What does a CL do every day?

02. Learning

• What is learning?
  
• How can learning be stimulated – what are the barriers to learning and how can they be overcome?
  
• Different ways of learning in a chapter – mentoring, coaching, etc.
  
• Two basic CL skills to support learning – active listening, constructive questions

03. Professional Development and Motivation

• Motivation in a nutshell – the best known motivational theories
• The pillars of intrinsic motivation – mission, autonomy, professional excellence
• How can the PO, CL and AC contribute to intrinsic motivation?
• Practices to support professional development – Jurgen Appello’s motivation model, competency map, ikigai

04. Facilitation

• Why do we need professional communities?
• Shared professional occasions as drivers of the community – what does a good professional occasion look like and what practices can you use to create it?
• How to facilitate a professional opportunity – guidelines, tools

01. CoE lead Role

• Organising work effectively
  • Agile principles
  • Work organisation principles: transparency and an effective meeting culture
  • Practical tips
• Capacity strategies
• Ensuring professional development
  • Identifying competencies
  • Building a learning organisation
• Building a professional community
  • CoE events
  • Practical tips for designing professional occasions

02. Run Team lead role

• Organising work effectively
  • Visual management – expectations, 5S model, prioritisation
  • Value stream planning
  • Waste – concepts, types, management
• Run Team Leadership
  • Situational leadership
  • Group vs. Team