goAgile Courses
LEADERSHIP-RELATED
Agile Training Workshop
This full-day workshop is the culmination of interviews of people working around a specific project within your organization and is customized to your individual needs. The workshop gives participants an understanding of how using Agile methodologies increases your project’s success. Focus is on how to tackle your individual business challenges in connection with Agile and the possibilities that working with Agile bring.
Duration: 1 day
Agile Project Leadership—Level I Foundation Preparation
This course is designed for those new to Agile and fits the DSDM Agile Project Leadership Level I Foundation Certification program. Participants learn the basics of Agile Project Leadership including various Agile methodologies (e.g. Lean, Scrum, xP, Crystal, DSDM Atern, and more).
Duration: 2 days
Exam: 1 hour multiple choice (Please note: DSDM, not goAgile, administers this exam)
Agile Project Leadership—Level II Practitioner Preparation
This course is designed to fit the DSDM Agile Project Leadership Level II Practitioner Certification program. Participants learn advanced Agile leadership, facilitation and collaborative skills from Ole Jepsen, one of the world’s foremost Agile practitioners. Interactive exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven to illustrate the principles being explored.
Duration: 2 1/2 days
Exam: 1 hour oral exam based upon a written report (Please note: DSDM, not goAgile, administers this exam)
Collaborative Requirement Modeling with Use Cases
Find out what’s missing in your plan to save development time and resources getting users the results they require. Participants learn user-centric modeling techniques to determine what users really need—quickly and in its entirety. The course helps teams structure requirements into planned-for and workable chunks.
Duration: 2 days
Change Management Strategy — Tailoring Your Change Process
Solutions-focused team workshop to help kick off new processes, creating real value as the team digs into how they want to make the change work for them, resulting in greater positivity and ownership. Participants will:
- Reflect on what the changes will mean for them
- Become more involved and engaged in the new process through fun brainstorming and planning activities
- Buy into the strategy and frameworks that are already in place and commit to making them “their own”
- Learn how to more quickly incorporate the changes into their daily work lives
Duration: 2 days
Facilitation for Leaders
Improve meeting efficiency by 10 times that of regular meetings with facilitation techniques learned in this course. Leaders learn how to create a common understanding of project goals and ownership of decisions made that affect the project and the organization. The results: stronger commitment to decisions, time and energy saved, and more innovative outcomes.
Duration: 2 days
Iterative Development for Project Leaders
Learn how to use short iterations to deliver the right product faster and on budget. The course includes how to run planning workshops, prioritisation and risk management, incremental software development, timeboxing, and how to run effective reflection workshops.
Duration: 2 days
COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED
Creating and Communicating Business Value to Stakeholders
Often leaders talk about their projects in terms of features (what the product or process can do) rather than in benefits (the value delivered). Learn how to really understand stakeholders’ needs, improve perceived results and gain more revenue by understanding, agreeing and communicating about the real value you are delivering.
Duration: 1 day
Creating Messages that Stick, part 1
Many times leaders and teams find themselves in a position where what they are trying to communicate just does not hit the mark. The people they are trying to communicate with simply do not understand or care about what is being communicated. In this course, participants will learn how to create messages that answer the “What’s in it for me?” for the stakeholders they need to communicate with. Participants will learn the six elements of “stickiness” (or how to create messages that people care about, remember and act on) and how to communicate effectively. Participants will leave with a clear, concise message that will stick with their audiences.
Duration: 1 day
Communicating Messages that Stick, part 2
This course, which is offered only in conjuction with “Creating Messages that Stick,” is designed to help you become a better communicator — improving the form and delivery of the messages you want to communicate. Think of it as strategic presentation coaching. The course is ideal for any type of presentation: internal (with project teams, with stakeholders, etc.) or external (conferences, seminars and panel discussions). Participants will learn what goes into a great and memorable presentation, how to hold the audience’s attention, and how to feel more confident whether speaking to one person or 1,000.
Duration: 1 day
Communicating to Get Results
Designed to help IT team members successfully communicate project and organization key messages, gain the strategies and tools needed to overcome the barriers to effective communications within the organization, and collaborate across-teams on results and business value issues.
Duration: 1 day
Flirting with Your Customers — Connecting to Build Trust and Deliver Value
All over the world, there are classes in flirting that teach how to connect with others. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. Using goAgile’s 8 Steps to Flirting With Your Customers©, participants learn how flirting techniques translate to use in a business setting—offering inspiration to create stronger connections, greater understanding of business customers, and build business value.
Duration: 1/2 day
Language Fluency vs. Cultural Communications Fluency — Communicating Effectively with Your English-speaking Audiences
It’s not enough to speak fluent English. There are nuances around communicating with native English speakers that go beyond the actual language and may interfere with getting your messages understood and accepted. The gap between what you are actuall communicating and what you want to communicate can create real problems for your business. This course will help you understand how cultural differences impact communications and how your company can thrive through acquisitions, new leadership, new internal programs, or new product/service introductions. You will learn how to make your messages more meaningful with directors, employees, clients, suppliers or customers.
Duration: 1 day
PERSONAL/TEAM DEVELOPMENT-RELATED
The Emperor’s New Clothes — Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations
See the Emperor in all his glory! Which role will you play? We all interact with different types of characters in our daily lives which may lead to stressful situations. In this workshop, framed around the Agile retelling of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” participants will experience the different ways we cope in stressful situations through role playing and observing others so that they can compare and contrast the different ways of communicating when under stress. Participants wil learn to recognize what it feels like when you engage in imbalanced communications (incongruent behavior) and practice making it more balanced (congruent behavior). This workshop was developed with Portia Tung as an Agile Fairytale. www.agilefairytales.org
Duration: 2 hours
Better Solutions via Conflict
Often, conflicts can be a major source of stress, reduce productivity, upset relationships and prevent creative thinking — wasting time, energy and money. Conflicts are inevitable in any organization and, if managed well, have a positive effect — leading to better solutions. This course will help you understand the nature of conflicts and how to handle conflicts effectively and respectfully allowing people in your organization to get issues out in the open, work more effectively together and create stronger, trust-based relationships in the process.
Duration: 2 days
Fearless Journey — Specific Ideas to Positively Overcome Obstacles
This simulation game can be used with your team to address obstacles over which you have no authority, using 48 Influence Strategies from the book Fearless Change to collaboratively brainstorm actions that move you forward. After the workshop, participants will have gotten ideas for new behaviors and actions, increased optimism about their goals, and learned more about consensus decision-making, collaboration and appreciation.
Duration: 4 hours
Creating an Open Environment: a Kickstart to Change
This workshop teaches collaborative brainstorming while at the same time helping the organization’s/project’s change process by gaining valuable input into a new work environment — where team members need and want to internalize changes, take control of individual/team work situations and create more joy of work. Please note: the workshop in this format, must be done BEFORE decisions have been reached about a change process.
Duration: 4 hours