Managing an Agile Team
By External Provider
About this course
While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they’re doing it ‘right’. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don’t ‘really’ do it. The reality is that getting the most out of agile is less about observing specific procedures and more about how a team focuses and measures their progress. Rather than just boring you with an accounting of agile methodologies, this course focuses on helping you better charter your team’s focus, definition of success, and practice of agile. While learning about agile mainstays like Scrum, XP, and kanban, you’ll also learn to help your team ask the right questions about how they’re working and facilitate good answers on how agile can help. This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.
What you will learn
- How to select and test agile practices to adaptively improve your team’s practice of agile
- How to create an agile team charter that aligns your team’s focus with company strategy while leaving it free to work creatively
- How to facilitate retrospectives with your team to iteratively, collaboratively improve your practice of agile
- How to support your team’s transition to agile