Facilitation Skills for Agile Project Leaders: Collaboration Explained
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
For practicing ScrumMasters, Product Owners, and other members of Agile teams who want to improve the collaboration and participatory decision-making of Agile software development team meetings.
Class Size Limit: 20 (Minimum 8)
Course Overview
This exercise-filled workshop is a two day exploration of collaboration and facilitation for Agile teams. The class is based in part from Jean Tabaka's acclaimed book Collaboration Explained. Through these exercises, participants learn and apply facilitation tools and techniques that support a collaborative mode of decision making for the planning, daily interactions, and reviews of Agile Software Development project teams.
Ronica will lead participants in evaluating collaboration versus command-and-control leadership styles; collaborative decision-making; and then all the vital facilitation around the Agile work of planning for and running collaborative meetings and interactions. Working in small teams, every participant facilitates at least one of the many exercises.
Besides learning to plan collaborative meetings, each person practices helping teams gather insights and come to decisions without taking over any decisions themselves! Be prepared to be on your feet, be challenged, and watch your skills grow! And before ending, the newly anointed facilitators to build their own toolkits of tools and techniques to take back to their Agile teams.
Agenda
- How does collaboration play a role in Agile projects?
- What is collaboration versus command-and-control?
- What is a collaborative decision-making mode?
- How do we plan for collaborative meetings?
- How do we kick-off collaborative meetings?
- What tools can we use to help teams gather insights and come to decisions?
- How do we help teams deal with conflict while collaborating?
- How do we close collaborative meetings?
- What changes when we have large and distributed teams?
- What tools will we use in which of the meetings we run?
Cost:
$1350 per attendee.
Early Bird Registration - By 04-06-2010 $1250 per attendee