Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
47mGeneral2025-04-28
Authors
Natasha Kasimtseva
Project Management Practitioner
Course details
Build an agile team that delivers real business value. In this course, internationally recognized expert Natasha Kasimtseva guides you through designing, staffing, and growing a high-performing agile team. You'll assess your organization's readiness, define goals and roles, find and upskill team members, and create a clear road map for growth. Through practical challenges and solutions, you'll gain the confidence and tools to start building your agile team—wherever you are in your journey.
Learning objectives
Assess your organization’s readiness for agile transformation by identifying critical success factors and evaluating current strengths and gaps.
Define the goals, roles, and knowledge areas required for your agile team by analyzing business needs and expertise gaps.
Build and staff your agile team by applying recruitment, upskilling strategies, and developing a clear staffing plan.
Create a growth road map and propose solutions to common agile team-building challenges through practical tools and exercises.
Learning objectives
Assess your organization’s readiness for agile transformation by identifying critical success factors and evaluating current strengths and gaps.
Define the goals, roles, and knowledge areas required for your agile team by analyzing business needs and expertise gaps.
Build and staff your agile team by applying recruitment, upskilling strategies, and developing a clear staffing plan.
Create a growth road map and propose solutions to common agile team-building challenges through practical tools and exercises.
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementTeams and CollaborationProject ManagementProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Unlocking business value with an agile team
1. Setting Up for Success
- 02 - Is your organization ready for agile transformation
- 03 - Identify success areas for agile implementation
- 04 - Challenge - Assess organizational readiness and provide recommendations
- 05 - Solution - Assess organizational readiness and provide recommendations
2. Design Your Perfect Agile Team
- 06 - Define goals and objectives of your agile team
- 07 - Define expert knowledge needed to perform the work
- 08 - Evaluate current workload and trends
- 09 - Clarify your staffing plan, roles, and responsibilities
- 10 - Challenge - Develop a staffing plan for your agile team
- 11 - Solution - Develop a staffing plan for your agile team
3. Building Your Agile Dream Team
- 12 - Find new members for your agile team
- 13 - Upskilling existing team members
- 14 - Acting out agile roles
- 15 - Celebrating success
- 16 - Challenge - Propose strategies to implement approved staffing plan
- 17 - Solution - Propose strategies to implement approved staffing plan
4. Grow Your Agile Team
- 18 - Define the growth roadmap for your agile team
- 19 - Challenge - Roadmap proposal
- 20 - Solution - Roadmap proposal
Conclusion
- 21 - Next steps - Start where you are