• Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? • Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach? In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization’s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization. The authors start from the position of: • Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. • Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. • Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. • Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less ‘fire-fighting’ and greater emphasis on fire prevention. • Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.
Agile is a philosophy that ensures business results, especially in this rapidly changing world. The foundation for the focus on result is based on continuous improvement of customer satisfaction, Customer Excellence! The ideas originated in the world of software development, but is more widely applicable. This book is about applying Agile from team level to the level of the whole organization. It is the guide in the transformation to a structured Agile way of working and a reference for those who already are Agile and want to take it to the next step. The book provides a good foundation for the `Certify to inspire 'program of the Agile Consortium with certification at the level of Agile Foundation, Practitioner and Master. This pocket guide is intended for anyone who is, or will get involved in the transformation to Agile. The book is particularly aimed at managers, team members and coaches. Topics covered: Agile at organization level; Agile (project) management, Scrum combined with PRINCE2®, measuring the transformation, coaching styles, Agile, Lean and continuous improvement, distributed teams, directing self-organizing teams, Agile and governance, and of course the book contains many practical tips. The authors are Certified Agile Masters and their years of experience with Agile transformations are brought together in this book. The answers to the many questions of managers, teams and others are also included in this book. The result is a convenient and practical overview of the Agile approach from team-level up to organizational level as well as the main issues that you encounter in the transformation to an agile organization.
This Kanban Foundation course is for individuals and teams that want to learn and demonstrate their understanding and proficiency in managing their work with Kanban. This practical training class provides attendees with the knowledge and skills to collaborate or improve the collaboration in a lean and/or agile team. Attendees will understand how Kanban principles and practices can be applied with other lean and/or agile methods like Scrum. Attendees will learn how to effectively implement Kanban in their team through visualisation and the application of lean and agile principles. At the end of this course they will have the knowledge and the skills to visualize their work process, gather and use actionable metrics for faster delivery of value and continuous improvement and collaborate with other teams in a way that leads to better organizational performance. Teams that have implemented Kanban have recorded faster delivery times, reduced waiting time, improved quality of products and reached higher team autonomy, leading to better engagement and customer satisfaction. This course provides practical tips, real life examples and hands-on practices that can be applied immediately after completion of this course. This Courseware is suitable as a foundation for further growth on Lean and Agile and certification. Preparation for the Agile Foundation Exam from the Agile Consortium can be added to this training as an option as well as the certification Exam itself. After the course candidates: 1. understand foundational Lean/Agile principles on which Kanban was developed 2. can work in a team that has adopted Kanban as a method for work delivery 3. can visualize their process and work using a Kanban board 4. are able to leverage Kanban to manage priorities, conflicts and opportunities in their work delivery process 5. understand role-based scenarios when practicing Kanban 6. understand how Kanban principles and practices can be applied with other lean and/or agile methods like Scrum 7. understand how to predictably forecast work and manage stakeholder expectations 8. can identify opportunities for improvement in their process 9. can identify opportunities for radically improving time to market 10. can analyse and interpret data generated by their process and take action accordingly in order to improve delivery
Agile is a philosophy that ensures business results, especially in this rapidly changing world. The foundation for the focus on result is based on continuous improvement of customer satisfaction, Customer Excellence! The ideas originated in the world of software development, but is more widely applicable. This book is about applying Agile from team level to the level of the whole organization. It is the guide in the transformation to a structured Agile way of working and a reference for those who already are Agile and want to take it to the next step. The book provides a good foundation for the `Certify to inspire 'program of the Agile Consortium with certification at the level of Agile Foundation, Practitioner and Master. This pocket guide is intended for anyone who is, or will get involved in the transformation to Agile. The book is particularly aimed at managers, team members and coaches. Topics covered: Agile at organization level; Agile (project) management, Scrum combined with PRINCE2®, measuring the transformation, coaching styles, Agile, Lean and continuous improvement, distributed teams, directing self-organizing teams, Agile and governance, and of course the book contains many practical tips. The authors are Certified Agile Masters and their years of experience with Agile transformations are brought together in this book. The answers to the many questions of managers, teams and others are also included in this book. The result is a convenient and practical overview of the Agile approach from team-level up to organizational level as well as the main issues that you encounter in the transformation to an agile organization.
• Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? • Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach? In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization’s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization. The authors start from the position of: • Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. • Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. • Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. • Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less ‘fire-fighting’ and greater emphasis on fire prevention. • Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.
This Kanban Foundation course is for individuals and teams that want to learn and demonstrate their understanding and proficiency in managing their work with Kanban. This practical training class provides attendees with the knowledge and skills to collaborate or improve the collaboration in a lean and/or agile team. Attendees will understand how Kanban principles and practices can be applied with other lean and/or agile methods like Scrum. Attendees will learn how to effectively implement Kanban in their team through visualisation and the application of lean and agile principles. At the end of this course they will have the knowledge and the skills to visualize their work process, gather and use actionable metrics for faster delivery of value and continuous improvement and collaborate with other teams in a way that leads to better organizational performance. Teams that have implemented Kanban have recorded faster delivery times, reduced waiting time, improved quality of products and reached higher team autonomy, leading to better engagement and customer satisfaction. This course provides practical tips, real life examples and hands-on practices that can be applied immediately after completion of this course. This Courseware is suitable as a foundation for further growth on Lean and Agile and certification. Preparation for the Agile Foundation Exam from the Agile Consortium can be added to this training as an option as well as the certification Exam itself. After the course candidates: 1. understand foundational Lean/Agile principles on which Kanban was developed 2. can work in a team that has adopted Kanban as a method for work delivery 3. can visualize their process and work using a Kanban board 4. are able to leverage Kanban to manage priorities, conflicts and opportunities in their work delivery process 5. understand role-based scenarios when practicing Kanban 6. understand how Kanban principles and practices can be applied with other lean and/or agile methods like Scrum 7. understand how to predictably forecast work and manage stakeholder expectations 8. can identify opportunities for improvement in their process 9. can identify opportunities for radically improving time to market 10. can analyse and interpret data generated by their process and take action accordingly in order to improve delivery
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