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SkillSoft Explore Course

Aspire     Agile for Software Development     Agile for Software Development Track 4: Agile Organization
In order for Agile to be effective, it needs to become part of the organization and corporate culture. In this course, you'll learn how to build an Agile culture in the organization.
First, you'll examine the challenges an organization is likely to face when transforming into an Agile organization. Next, you'll learn how to establish an Agile governance framework that will guide the organization on the best practices for building an Agile team, mentoring the team, and building the Agile culture. Finally, you'll explore Agile conflict resolution, moving towards Agile maturity, and effective Agile management.

Objectives

Agile Organizations: Building an Agile Culture

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • recognize the challenges faced in transforming to an Agile organization
  • recognize how to establish a governance framework for adopting Agile at an organizational level
  • describe the best practices to be adopted for building an Agile culture in the organization
  • describe Agile management best practices and how to create effective teams
  • recognize the best practices to be adopted by an Agile leader to build and mentor Agile teams for a software project
  • recognize the best practices to adopt for overcoming the challenges of working with distributed teams in an Agile environment
  • describe the best practices for managing and working with distributed teams in Agile
  • identify how to effectively transition a distributed team to Scrum
  • describe Agile team dynamics and how to ensure teams are effective and productive
  • describe conflict resolution techniques for the Agile coach
  • identify the parameters with which to assess an organization in order to determine its Agile maturity
  • describe how Agile senior management can, through effective Agile leaders and teams, successfully maximize the benefits of Agile practices for software development
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course