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Managing Agile Project Teams
Foundational Knowledge
No foundational project management or technical knowledge is required.
Introduction
Sometime in the mid-1980's, traditional project management quietly disappeared. It was replaced by a new form of team that has become the norm for most of the business and IT project teams …the Agile, Virtual or Ad-hoc team.
Traditional project teams were formed for the life of the project and typically comprised of team members with the required skills to deliver the project. Agile teams are completely different. In the majority of cases, the Agile team consists of a very small "core" with the remainder of the project team drawn in an ad-hoc manner from stakeholder groups and internal/external consultants. In addition, many of the participants in the Agile team are part-time and often geographically dispersed.
More importantly, most members of this type of team have multiple reporting and accountability lines. Whereas in a traditional team, the members of the project team were directly managed by a project manager, in these new teams, the project manager has little direct control over his or her team members.
In effect, an Agile or Ad-hoc team is a team of people who place their commitment to themselves and their respective "home group" above their commitment to the Agile team members.
The Workshop
In this innovative yet practical two-day workshop, we explore the world of Agile, Virtual or Ad-hoc teams. Based on many years of experience in both analyzing and working with these types of teams, we present practical tools and techniques for optimizing the performance and behaviour of these teams.
The workshop is structured into two broad components: Understanding Agile and Virtual Teams; Tools for effective Agile Team management.
Topics Include
Day 1 - Understanding Agile and Virtual Teams
- A brief overview of project team evolution
- The essential differences between traditional and agile teams
- Various types of agile / virtual teams
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- The X-team
- Permanent agile / virtual teams
- Cross-functional agile / virtual teams
- Agile / virtual project teams
- Cultural aspects of teams
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- Rules, values, behaviours, norms
- The four predominant team cultures
- Determining the agile/virtual team culture
- Power and influence models in a virtual world
Day 2 - Tools for effective Agile Team management
- Exercise: Mapping your team image
- Exercise: Mapping your team culture
- Exercise: Developing an agile / virtual team Code of Behaviour
- Understand the people in your team
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- Personality profiling
- Job Diagnostics
- Exercise: Understanding yourself
- Exercise: Power & Influence analysis
- Exercise: Communication in an agile / virtual world
- Exercise: Project versus team charters
Documentation
Participants will receive a workbook, a copy of the exercises and a set of readings on CD for further discussion with their team members and organizations.
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