Professional Agile Leadership: Building an Agile Organization

In this course, Scrum.org product owner and CEO Dave West teaches professional agile leadership and highlights strategies to foster high-performing agile teams and align their efforts with broader organizational goals. Explore ways to apply the agile mindset to enhance team empowerment, psychological safety, and continuous learning. Learn to navigate change effectively by building a culture that supports adaptability and innovation. Practice agile planning, management practices, and scaling frameworks. Focus on real-world applications as you learn how to empower your teams through coaching and facilitation techniques. Ideal for senior project and program managers, agile delivery leads, and anyone leading within an agile organization, this course equips you with the skills to transform your team’s productivity and lead agile transformations across your organization.

Learning objectives
Describe the concept of VUCA and identify why traditional leadership approaches are insufficient in agile environments.
Describe the three core accountabilities in Scrum including the primary responsibilities of each.
Identify three characteristics of high-performing agile teams.
Explain how psychological safety supports agile team effectiveness.
Describe the purpose of a Sprint retrospective and describe two facilitation techniques that can promote continuous improvement.