Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills
Dec 5-7, 2006
Are you ready to take your Agile team to the next level?
Beyond technical skills, Agile success depends on productive self-organizing teams. How do you develop, grow, and maintain a functioning self-organizing team? It’s not magic, but it doesn’t just happen either. Effective self-organizing teams rely on personal and interpersonal effectiveness. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll discover the secrets to developing the skills you need to succeed and lead on a self-organizing team.
Facilitators Diana Larsen and Esther Derby
Audience Team leaders, team coaches, XP coaches, ScrumMasters and other software professionals leading and working in teams.
Pre-requisites A desire to be best team member or team leader possible.
Benefits Team members will learn to:
• Improve the quality of interactions with customers and others outside the team
• Increase the speed and effectiveness of feedback
• Contribute to an environment for team success
Course Outline
1. Communication
1.1. External processes of communication
1.2. Internal processes of communication
1.3. Untangling miscommunications
1.4. Communication practice
2. Navigating Conflict
2.1. Four types of conflict
2.2. Recognizing and intervening on conflicts
2.3. Conflict case studies activities
2.4. Navigating conflict practice
3. Feedback
3.1. The goal of peer-to-peer feedback
3.2. Feedback guidelines
3.3. Feedback giver and receiver responsibilities
3.4. Feedback practice
4. Shared Leadership
4.1. Shared leadership behaviors
4.2. Recognizing and encouraging leadership behaviors activities
4.3. Shared leadership practice
5. Team Formation
5.1. Stages of team formation
5.2. Diagnosing team development
5.3. Supporting effective team development
5.4. Team formation practice
6. Personal and Organizational Change
6.1. How change effects individuals and groups
6.2. Strategies to support people through change
7. Transition practice to work
Registration Workshop registration fee for the three-day workshop is $1200. To ensure the optimal workshop experience for everyone, registration is limited to no more than 3 individuals from the same organization. Register here.
Register Early To encourage the highest quality learning and interaction, attendance in this workshop is limited to 15 participants. When the list of registered participants reaches 15, we will start a short waiting list in case of last minute cancellations. Register here.
Time The workshop begins at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 5, 2006, and continues with day and evening sessions through 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 7, 2006.
Location We have reserved the school library and an adjoining classroom at The Kennedy School in Portland, OR, for our workshop sessions.
We have arranged for a block of rooms in the hotel for our workshop participants. Deadline for reserving a guaranteed room at the hotel is November 5, 2006. Please mention FutureWorks Consulting/The Secrets of Agile Teamwork when reserving your room.
The hotel is located 4 miles (about 10 minutes) from Portland International Airport, within easy walking distance (.5 – 1.5 miles) of the Alberta Arts District with numerous shops and restaurants available, and near a pharmacy and supermarket for incidental purchases.
Comments
If we do send three people from our organization, is there a discount from the individual price?
Cheers,
Dave
Hi Dave,
We don’t have a published discount, but if you sign up three people, we could make some adjustment.. ;-)
Diana
Diana:
Will the course provide help in designing team retrospectives? I missed your tutorial at Agile 2005.
- Mark
Hi Mark,
Designing retros isn’t part of the planned curriculum. However, we are flexible and, to a degree, the workshop content is driven by the just-in-time needs of the participants. If enough people in the room wanted to spend some time on retros, we’d find a way to include it.
Diana
Hello
I work for a conulting organization in OR and was intrested to know if you conduct workshop for newbies to the agile process.
We have been using a good amount of RUP methodology, lately to what ever I have read make me intrresting to learn more about Agile/Scrum kind of process.
Please let me know if in the future you counduct any such workshops.
Thanks
Ramakrishnan Seshadri
Hi Ramakrishnan,
in October, Esther Derby and I presented two workshops at the Pacfic Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC). One was an Agile Overview, for interested beginners. We don’t have another one scheduled at this time, but I will let you know if we schedule one locally in the future.
Another way you could learn more is by attending the monthly XPDX users group meetings at OGI. (usually the 2nd Tuesday evening) www.xpdx.org The group began as an XP users group, but has expanded to include discussion of Agile methods in general.
Thanks for expressing your interest. I think lots of people are hearing more about, and becoming intrigued by the possibilities of, Agile/Scrum for their development organizations.
Diana