Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings

In this course, Joshua Barnes—a Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor and Certified Disciplined Agile Coach—takes you through how to plan and run the most beneficial agile meetings for your team. Find out how to ensure your agile meetings provide value, navigating common pitfalls, and utilize proven strategies for running effective meetings. Build your understanding of agile meetings, timebox planning, and team coordination. Learn how to look ahead and enhance your readiness of work items. Plus, explore ways to demonstrate outcomes and fine-tune what’s working and what’s not. This course can help you ensure your meetings add value to your team’s development processes.

Learning objectives
Explain the benefits of agile meetings and how they differ from traditional meetings.
Describe how to identify and plan the work an agile team will do in a timebox such as a sprint or iteration.
Demonstrate how a team coordinates its work daily, focusing on their work in process and impediments.
Illustrate the practice of looking ahead to ensure the team can focus on the highest priority work.
Describe how the team can provide feedback on the readiness of the highest priority work items they may implement soon.
Demonstrate how a team shares what it planned to do, demonstrates its progress, solicits feedback, and discusses what it may do next.
Compare approaches for a team to reflect on how they are working together and their process.