Lean Agile Enterprise Leadership Workshop : Two Day Workshop for Managers

The workshop is built in a modular format; the length of each module can be tailored to the specific needs of the attendees:

Module I –Introduction to Lean Thinking and Product Development Flow

In this module, Leffingwell describes the principles and practices of lean thinking, and introduces value stream analysis as a tool for understanding how to shorten the time from customer request to feature delivery. In addition, this module introduces eight core principles for achieving the economic benefits of continuous product development flow.

Module II - Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

In Module 2, Leffingwell describes the fundamentals of software agility, as a “software instance of lean thinking” and highlights proven practices that enterprises have used to successfully scale agile adoption to teams of teams and the full enterprise. Advanced topics  include  lean requirements and portfolio management, intentional architecture, managing organizational change and measuring business performance.

Module III – Experiencing Scrum

In this portion of the workshop, Leffingwell introduces the attendees to the principles and practices of Scrum. This portion of the workshop is experiential in nature;  in addition to theory, attendees will experience a short “sprint”. The lessons learned  will enhance their personal understanding of agile and Scrum.

Module IV – Agile Technical Practices

Scrum provides many enterprises with the basic project management practices that teach  teams  selforganization, focus, incremental value delivery and accountability to objectives. However, without constantly improving technical practices, agile teams will not necessarily achieve their ultimate potential performance. In this module, Leffingwell introduces agile technical practices, including continuous integration, peer review, collective ownership and test-driven development. 

Module V –The Agile Release Train

In this module, Leffingwell describes how enterprises can  align agile teams to a common  mission and vision  and  use cadence, synchronization and  rolling-wave  release planning  to  achieve product development flow. This module also introduces  extended agile planning, estimating and  portfolio management tools to help define release objectives and manage successful release execution.

Module VI – Agile Leadership: Building High Performance Teams.

In this module, Leffingwell explores the principles of agile leadership. Subtopics include the following:

• Managers as Agile Leaders

• Measuring Agile Progress

• Coaching Agile Teams

• Five Dysfunctions of a Team

• Problem Solving Workshop

The module ends with a problem solving exercise, introducing specific lean-based tools for problem solving, which can be used by managers to help teams self-analyze and self-correct the substantial challenges they face.  The  format for this ending exercise focuses on addressing specific challenges the attendees face within their current business context.