This course is a fast track for leaders and executives. It provides context, background and useful patterns of Agile Lean Leadership (ALL), thoroughly setting out its values and principles. An archetype Agile Lean organization and a roadmap is presented, reviewed and discussed.

Organizations face a number of challenges in the present economy. Everything is changing with accelerating pace due to technological developments, global competition and consolidation. In addition, there is a much higher content of complex knowledge work in organizations than before.

Change puts greater demands on employees and leadership and planning is much harder when only fragmented knowledge is available. Everyone needs multiple skills and the ability to change and learn constantly. They are often required to work in teams – sometimes in transient teams.

The course provides a quick background of Agile and Lean Thinking, and an understanding of the mindset. Participants learn different ways to improve organizational performance by adopting the principles of: trust, taking ownership, constant improvement, pride of workmanship, intrinsic motivation and organization for complexity. Participants learn about transparency from different perspectives, estimation, risk assessment and basic prioritization techniques.

Read the full description of the course here…

A basic familiarity with Scrum and Agile is recommended, please read the document “Scrum a Bird’s eye view” here…

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the top level goals and challenges of present day organizations
• Understanding the history and primary contributors to the Agile Lean Leadership pattern
• Understanding the needs and challenges of stakeholders, leadership and employees.
• Understanding the background to “complexity” thinking.
• Understanding feedback loops and constant improvement.
• Understanding top level human motivation, drivers and problem areas.
• Understanding the challenges with the prevailing management paradigm.

Agenda

Setting the stage – What’s in it for for the organization? Why should leaders be concerned about Agile and Lean in the whole organization?

• • Warming up, building an initial backlog
  • What benefits does it bring? Is it worth the effort?
  • The current situation, what characterizes it?
  • Which values or impacts are desirable?

Agile Lean context – What makes people perform well and enjoy their work? Why is this important? Intrinsic motivation, pride of workmanship.

• • Freedom, yet doundaries
  • A tactile exercise to get a handle on complexity.
  • Complexity theory, Cynefin.
  • Constant Improvement, constant learning. The Deming PDSA Cycle. Empirical process control.
  • Neo-Taylorism in contrast to Agile Lean Leadership.

Core principles of Agile and Lean, examples from the framework  – The heart of Agile and Lean. An overview of the fundamental Agile and Scrum pattern.

• • The classic Scrum roles, taking care of the strategic, tactical and operational areas.
  • Retrospectives and constant learning. Kaizen and Kaikaku, small steps and giant leaps.
  • Predictability, how to get close and deal with the inevitable lack of it sometimes.

Agile Lean Leadership, the 4 values and 16 principles – Clarity of purpose, a clear vision.

• A clear line of sight to the customer, be clear about who is served and why. Leadership in complex domains, the organization as a complex organism. Binding people together with common goals and values, not rules and regulations. Focus on sustainability and resilience, keeping everything working through time and changes. Building psychological safety and capability of learning.

A model Agile Lean organization – The concept of circles, relations and manifests. Building the Relationship Map.

• • The dual leadership pattern, inherited from Scrum.
  • Primary focus on serving the customers, decision making and escalation, cross-cutting concerns.
  • Canvases for the business case and the roadmap of introducing Agile Lean Leadership.

How to lead in an Agile Lean organization – The concepts of Servant Leadership, collegial, consultative decisions, intent-based leadership and understanding the big picture and the systemic dynamics of the organization.

Prices and Conditions for Courses

• Each public Agile Lean Leadership one-day course is offered at an Early-Bird price of EUR 680, NOK/SEK 7,100, or DKK 5,100 when registering more than a month before the course date, after that the prices are EUR 760, NOK/SEK 7,900 or DKK 5,700.
• Each public Agile Lean Leadership two-day Course (ALLSM or ALLPO) is offered at an Early-Bird price of EUR 1,300, NOK/SEK  14,300, or DKK 9,700 when registering more than a month before the course date, after that the price is EUR 1,460, NOK/SEK 15,900 or DKK 10,800.
• All Prices are excl. VAT.
• Courses are delivered in Danish in Denmark and Norwegian in Norway unless there are participants that require English, then we will switch to English, which is the default language in all other territories.
• Courses include meals, course materials, a certificate of participation, access to online resources, a free online Retrospective 2-3 weeks after the course and free participation in follow-up events for two years.
• Participants can choose to sit an extra examination after each course. This consists of handing in a written assignment for review and assessment by the instructor and an independent instructor. The students will receive comments and a passed/failed note, grades are not given. The examination costs EUR 180, NOK/SEK 1.900 or DKK 1,350.
• Registration is via email at info@agileleanhouse.com and invoices are sent out from the organization arranging the training course. Payment has to be received before the start of the course.
• Cancellation policy: Registration can be canceled up until one month before the start of the course without any fees. Cancellation between one month and two weeks before the course starts is charged with 50% of the course fee. Cancellation within the last two weeks before the course starts will be charged fully. Transfer to a later course can be negotiated, in case unforeseen circumstances appear.
• For free events, we kindly ask participants to register via email at info@agileleanhouse.com. Registration can be canceled up to 24 hours before the event FOC. After that, a no-show fee of EUR 60, NOK/SEK 650 or DKK 450 will be invoiced.
• The courses are also offered as internal, on-site courses for organizations and companies. A minimum of 10 participants are normally required. If you are interested, please contact us for further information, via email here… or find the right contact person here…