Advanced Agile: The Team's Mindset
1h 5mIntermediate2021-11-15
Authors

Doug Rose
Teaching Fortune 500s and professionals how to lead change
Course details
Companies looking to embrace an agile mindset must make several key organizational changes. While guides like The Agile Manifesto or The Scrum Guide provide high-level summaries of the concepts, they weren't designed to give you the in-depth knowledge you need to lead a widespread organizational change. To do that you have to see the history and reasoning behind key agile ideas. In this course, Doug Rose delves into the history of agile thinking, and shows how you can be a leading voice for embracing a more agile mindset in your organization. Doug uses the Simple Lean-Agile Mindmap (SLAM) as a guide for all the ideas that go into team agility, and shows how scrum, kanban, and extreme programming all work to help your team drive your overall organizational agility. Whether you’re an agile coach, manager, team member, executive, or product or project manager, this course can help get you and your company into a more agile mindset.
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementProject ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome to Advanced Agile
Before the Agile Alliance
- Software is inspired by manufacturing
- A new new way to develop products
- Run experiment sprints with scrum
- Embrace change with extreme programming
- The beginnings of agile projects with a manifesto
The Emergence of Lean Thinking
- Manufacturing changes with lean thinking
- The simple lean-agile mindmap (SLAM)
- The lean software development mindset
Break Down the Work and Prioritize
- Find what the customer values
- Break down the work
- Prioritize the work based on value
- Pull the work through the teams
Pull Work through the System
- Use kanban cards to manage flow
- Organize work into small batches
- Line up batches into short work queues
- Avoid large batches with long handoffs
Focus on Lean Values
- Have respect for people
- Always look for ways to improve
Conclusion
- Next, try to scale for the enterprise