Agile Leadership and Self-organization Workshop

Advance your Agile Leadership skills for effective self-organization of your team

The role of leaders and managers has changed from the models we got used to in “traditional” project management, and so has the way development teams work to generate business value. Self-organization is an elusive management concept (how can we organize something that is supposed to organize itself?) which has profound business and organizational implications.

It taps into the collective intelligence of the team, so that people can come up with better solutions in a shorter time; it distributes control, to avoid decisional bottlenecks and let the project move faster; it relies on the socio-relational skills of the team, but it also relies on transparency, clear processes and shared goals to define the boundaries of delegation; and the greater autonomy promotes engagement and team learning.

Agile leaders who really understand these dynamics will take care of facilitating the value stream (represented by the development teams) by providing the necessary support and resources; they will provide guidance and a shared goal by sharing the “why” and the “what”, with more trust and less control on “how” that goal should be achieved; and they will be able to create an ecosystem where the business advantage of effective self-organization can manifest.

Why Attend

Effective self-organization changes the leader/team dynamics and the teammate/teammate ones. To reap the full benefits of Agile and Lean you need to understand these subtle dynamics and be able to implement them effectively in your organization.

In this workshop, participants will also learn more about how to:

Increase the productivity of your teams by greater participation and simpler decision-making processes
Create a learning environment where knowledge is shared, and reduce the risk of operational bottlenecks
Promote alignment to the organization’s business goals and get more focus on the most valuable activities
Leverage diversity (gender, nationality, background, personality, etc.) to create smarter and more efficient teams
Understand and manage the cultural blocks to self-organization, such as: blaming culture; fear of responsibility; fear of losing status; personal and unconscious agendas; guidance vs. command
Get involved in practical, guided exercises that you can later use in your own organization

Who Should Attend

Team Leaders
Team Members
Scrum Masters
Agile Coaches
Project Managers
Product Managers
IT Executives

Practical Details

Language: English
Experiential, hands-on, interactive online learning with practical examples
Participants will be awarded a Mozaic Works certificate of completion

This Learning Program is Available on Demand

Agenda

The business case for self-organization
Self-organization fundamentals: transparency and trust
Seeding a local culture: working agreements and visualization tools
Diversity as a success factor for smarter teams
Improving communication, participation, and commitment
Promoting engagement through autonomy and mastery
How self-organization differs in co-located and distributed teams
Identity, Personal Responsibility, and gratitude as catalyzers for self-organization
Moving out of a blaming culture and of personal agendas
A leader’s systemic view of self-organizing teams
Feedback loops in self-organizing teams: Inspect and Adapt
Understanding the Value Stream
Managers as leaders, facilitators and enablers
Co-creating and aligning to shared goals
Positioning leaders at the proper guidance level
The mechanisms for safe and effective delegation
Turning conflict into learning opportunities

More details and full agenda here

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of Agile
At least 12 months of work experience in a leadership role

Meet Your Trainers

Andrea Provaglio

Agile Executive Coach, Agile Enterprise Coach, Keynote Speaker, Mentor

Andrea Provaglio is an independent professional in the field of Information Technology, with almost twenty years of working experience in three different continents. He assist his clients in finding better ways to develop software and to create better development teams; and he supports individuals who want to improve technically and relationally. Andrea’s clients come from many different domains, which can range from large organizations such as the European Commission in Brussels, or large multinational banks, to small and dynamic IT companies. His work is primarily in the areas of: Adoption of different Agile and Lean methods; Development of soft skills for teams and organizations; Software architecture and design patterns; Design and development of enterprise-scale applications. Andrea is frequently a speaker at major international IT conferences (on past occasions…

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