Agile Software Development: Transforming Your Organization (2019)

Course details

While numerous modern organizations are trying to transform themselves with agile software development, many don’t stick the landing. What does it take to successfully adopt and scale agile in an IT organization? In this course, Kelley O’Connell shares the essential ingredients to any successful agile transformation, highlighting specific, practical techniques along the way. To begin, she goes over the benefits of agile methods and some of the common problems that organizations encounter when trying to adopt these methods. Next, she explains how to draw in your internal customers, engage your external customers, and assess and prioritize customer requests. Plus, learn how to transform your team from the top down, modify existing IT silos, and leverage metrics to keep tabs on your progress.

Learning objectives
Identifying and drawing in your internal customers
Engaging your external customers
Maximizing your portfolio’s effectiveness
Popular agile methodologies
Transforming your team
Using scaling models like SAFe and LeSS
Leveraging DevOps practices
Measuring your transformation

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Ignite your teams with Agile
02 - What you should know

1. So You Think You've Transformed

03 - Agile promises
04 - Agile fault lines
05 - What's missing from your transformation

2. Start with Your Customers

06 - Draw in your internal customers
07 - Engage your external customers
08 - Organize around customer needs

3. Your Portfolio of Work

09 - Critically assess your portfolio
10 - Portfolio management

4. The Agile Framework

11 - It's a mindset
12 - Overview of agile methods

5. Transforming Your Team

13 - Changing leaders' mindset
14 - Top-down versus bottom-up
15 - Involving human resources

6. Organizational Structure

16 - Start with your teams
17 - What it means to scale
18 - Selecting the Spotify model
19 - Selecting the SAFe model
20 - Selecting the LeSS model

7. Technical Excellence

21 - Architectural support
22 - Unlock DevOps
23 - Connect IT silos

8. Measurements and Growth

24 - Measure your transformation
25 - Team agility
26 - Portfolio agility

Conclusion

27 - Next steps