Overview
This programme is delivered over three engaging days and will give participants the essential knowledge to confidently manage and influence projects utilising the principles of Agile leadership. The course will leave participants with the confidence to apply their new skills and techniques straight away.
Agile is a perfect fit for organisations or individuals looking to transform how they deliver programmes and operate as a whole. An understanding of Agile can help organisational leaders ensure organisation wide process and methodological alignment.
Agenda
The Agile Project Leadership Programme will focus on the following sessions
- What is Agile – introducing the Agile philosophy
- Why use Agile as an approach
- When to use the Agile methodology
- Identify the core principles of Scrum
- Build on the key elements of Scrum
- Understand the Scrum life cycle
- Creating high performing teams
- The law of the small team:
The importance of remaining agile in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world is paramount.
Opportunities, challenges and problems can be disaggregated into small batches and performed by small cross-functional autonomous teams working iteratively in short cycles in a state of flow, with fast feedback from customers and end-users
The organisation’s culture and internal systems, processes, and values themselves be continuously subordinated to, and driven by, delivering value to the customer: if there is a conflict, it is the customer’s needs that need to be given priority.
An organizational network is a set of teams that interact with and collaborate with other teams with the same connectivity, interaction, and passion as they do within their own small team. Each team needs to look beyond its own goals and concerns and see its work as part of the larger mission of the collectively.
- The importance of review and analysis
- Building on experience
- Remaining agile
Tutor(s)
Alex Firmin - Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist
Alex is a leadership consultant and trainer. As a British Army officer, he undertook several tours on the front line of Afghanistan and worked to establish the first Afghan officer training academy, “Sandhurst in the Sand”, in Kabul. In 2013 Alex pursued a more diverse career in leadership development. Alex is highly experienced in managing complex cultural and structural change programmes. Over the past two years Alex has delivered training projects for Pearson, Zain Bahrain, BT, and several UK Universities. Focusing on empowerment, delegation skill and motivation, Alex has a passion for developing leadership characteristics in people at all levels of their organisation. As a consultant he works closely with teams and individuals to implement new methods of management, and coach them through change.
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Steve Barry - Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist
Steve’s twenty five year career has spanned a number of sectors including Utilities, IT, Business & Professional Services including ten years as HR Director within Financial Services.
Throughout this time, he has managed several large organisational and cultural change programmes, ensuring the businesses he works with are fit for purpose and have a highly skilled and engaged workforce. Steve’s pragmatic approach to People Leadership has delivered benchmark performance and successfully achieved the Investors in People, Gold Award and being asked to act as one of IIPs Champions. In addition to his roles within Human Resources, Steve has a successful track record as the Customer Operations Director for an insurance business where he successfully demonstrated his leadership through non-HR lenses.
Now working as a full time Executive Coach and Leadership Development specialist, Steve has established himself as a trusted advisor working with Executive teams to develop people strategies and build organisational talent and professional capabilities. His client portfolio comprises national and international businesses across multiple sectors including Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services, Local Government, Education and Tech firms. Steve also writes for professional journals and is a speaker at events regarding leadership development, employee engagement and change.
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Benefits
This course will give you the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to lead and deliver successful projects utilising the Agile philosophy. An Agile approach delivers substantial business benefits:
- Increased flexibility
- Increased productivity
- Increased transparency
- Higher quality deliverables
- Decreased risk of missed objectives
- Increased stakeholder engagement and satisfaction
- Stronger working relationships with increased understanding and collaboration
Who Should Attend?
This Agile Project Leadership Programme course has been designed to support organisational leaders and those who lead on major programmes and projects or influence change.
This course is aimed towards senior leaders and Directors. The course is also relevant for business owners and professionals that work across multiple teams and agencies, along with project managers and those in change management roles. Professionals looking to improve their professional effectiveness and influence as a leader will benefit from this well structed, engaging and informative course.
Accreditation
This programme is benchmarked and certified by the University of York, ensuring the content, quality and delivery is exceptional and to QAA standards. The QAA safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world.
Attendees successfully completing the programme would be awarded a Certificate of Competency in Agile Project Leadership by the University of York.
The Agile Project Leadership Programme has been developed as a result of collaboration between the University of York and In > Professional Development to meet the needs of leaders responsible for programmes or projects, and who wish to extend their skills and knowledge to embrace a number of project and programme management disciplines.
It is expected that candidates will already have a responsibility for or will be working in a programme or project management environment, although the programme is also open to people wishing to build on their leadership and management skills. The programme is pitched at a level beyond the single methodology approach which is characterised by PRINCE2, which provides an excellent platform for further development within this programme. However, INPD will take into account candidates’ current knowledge and experience, and any previous management, project management or programme management qualifications and learning undertaken.