Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team

Learn how to adopt an agile mindset and build an agile team: one that is self-organized, collaborative, and accountable.

Agile is becoming the preferred project management approach for fast-moving projects. At the heart of any agile project lies an agile team. In this course, the first in the Agile at Work series, expert Doug Rose uses a sample project to show how to build your agile team. A team with an agile mindset is self-organized, collaborative, and accountable. He also outlines the common pitfalls inherent in the implementation: new teams need to watch for confusing their roles and understand the challenges with managing self-organized groups.

Introduction

• Success as an agile team

1. Making Sure You're Ready

• Why agile exists
• Establishing why agile is needed
• Getting management agreement

2. Forming the Team

• Defining the agile team roles
• What the scrum master is and isn't
• Understanding the product owner role
• Letting the team self-organize
• What does a project manager do in agile?

3. Starting the Work

• Train a core team to evangelize others
• Workplace logistics and communication

4. Establishing an Agile Mindset

• Thinking like an agile team
• Working as an agile team
• Delivering like an agile team

5. Avoiding Pitfalls

• Working with the project management office
• Breaking traditional project habits
• Renaming over retooling

Conclusion

• Next steps