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: 16 (Minimum 8)
Course Overview
To succeed, an Agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn't happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. That responsibility falls upon the shoulders of the Project Manager or ScrumMaster as a facilitator and servant to the Agile team.
Based on Jean Tabaka's book Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, this two-day course teaches you the facilitation tools and techniques that support a collaborative mode of decision-making for the planning, daily interactions, iteration reviews and retrospections of Agile software development teams. Through extensive hands-on exercises, participants learn how to plan and lead productive meetings that gather and harness the wisdom of the group; guide constructive conflict toward sustainable decisions; capture the data that support the decisions and action; and produce actionable results.
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:
$1,200 per attendee.