Practical Agile Leadership

Are you a manager, project/delivery lead, RTE, or ScrumMaster? If you’re thinking:

“I want/need to improve our Agile delivery,”

“Our next Agile initiative will be challenging,” or

“I want to grow as an Agile leader”

Then register for “Practical Agile Leadership,” a two-day training with Gil Broza. Regardless of your starting point, it will take your performance as an Agile leader to the next level.

Note: Registration for Boston will close on October 20.

Almost every organization is interested in Agile now: starting to use it, expanding its use, or strengthening its implementation. People like you, who lead teams and projects, are key to successful delivery. Having supported hundreds of Agile leaders at companies large and small since 2004, I am familiar with their questions, concerns, and problems. My real-world experience and many mentors have taught me what works, what matters, what to watch out for, what to ignore, and what to do differently. Let me share all that with you.

This training will increase your ability to:

Explain the elements, structure, and significance of an Agile mindset (all in plain language)
Contextualize your role in the Agile setting
Launch work initiatives the Agile way
Control the cost of change for sustained Agility
Ensure higher Agility across the value stream
Use situational awareness and empowering techniques to help people grow and improve their results
Express the necessary conditions for team empowerment and engagement, and customize your role in fulfilling those conditions
Help your team achieve high performance with only a few techniques (and know which trouble signals to pick up on)
Increase team member collaboration and contribution by making a few simple changes to your meetings
Notice the pre-Agile attitudes and techniques you and the team have in your blind spot and replace them with Agile-minded ones
Move away from “implementing Agile practices” to working in an Agile manner and truly making the Agile promise happen
Have a reliable process for continually evolving your identity and role as an Agile leader

Each segment in this two-day training involves a mix of interactive teaching, individual and group activities, and discussions. We go light on theory and heavy on practical application. Expect conversations at multiple levels, frequent introspection, instructor advice, insights from your peers.

Logistics

Location: Boston area

Date and time: November 7 and 8, 9:00-5:00

Class size: Maximum attendance is 18 people. To maintain diversity and cross-pollination, we limit same-company attendance to four people. (If you have five or more, please write to us.)

Cancellation: If you need to cancel more than 30 days before the course, feel free to find someone to take your place. If you can’t find a substitute within this time frame, we’ll refund all but $400 to cover our administrative costs.

If you cancel within 30 days before the course, we can’t provide a refund. However, you may find a substitute.

No matter when you need to cancel, if you find a substitute, please let us know ASAP who that person is. It’s up to you to take care of payment arrangements with that person. Bonuses are not transferable between registrants.

Price

We reward early registration this way:

The full price is US $1,550 if you register in October.

If you register three or four people, you get 10% off each ticket.

Guarantee

If you truly participate and apply yourself, you — and subsequently your team and organization — will see the difference. Just to back that up, if you decide at the end of the first day that it’s not for you, tell the instructor (Gil). Return all the materials you received, and we’ll refund your ticket less a 20% reversal fee. No questions asked.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Increase Agility and improve delivery with practical insights, practices, and tools.
Expand your Agile leadership repertoire so you can tackle more and bigger challenges.
Boost your “leadership ROI”: redesign your leadership activities for better results.

Boston: November 7-8, 2019

Small-group exercises

No PowerPoint!

Group discussions

The content focused purely on the Agile Mindset and making Agile choices. So much of the training we are offered mixes behaviors and frameworks, when in fact the Mindset is the hardest to master. The course certainly lives up to its name, imparting a lot of practical knowledge on applying agile behaviors in the workplace.
- Dan ParsonsLead Agile Coach, Fidelity Investments
This course will perfectly complement what you have already learned either through your own experiences or in other agile leadership courses.
- Alexandra UrseaAgile Leader
It's a fantastic training and an opportunity to get outside of the process of Agile. I'm walking away with a very different mindset, a much more open, human, people-centric kind of view.
- Craig DialLead ScrumMaster, cPanel
As a ScrumMaster, I've taken many Agile training and workshops; Gil's Agile Leadership training was very different and enlightening. Instead of focusing on implementation, practices and techniques, he focuses on values and beliefs as drivers of behaviors. Highly recommended especially for people at leadership levels.
- Efrat WareSr. ScrumMaster, Fidelity Charitable
The flow was great, and the number of group activities was perfect.
- E. C.Manager of Software Development
Now I have a vocabulary to apply and some strategies to use that will help me become more effective in my communication with my peers, my management, and my teams so that we can all grow and learn together.
- Jennifer BleenProgram Manager, Huntington National Bank
Now I have some specific steps, techniques, and tools that I can go back and apply, while growing myself into my next role.
- Kamran KhanScrumMaster/Agile Coach, Cisco
Absolutely worth the time -- I would have used PTO for this if required.
- Dave S.Software development project manager (attended an in-house session)
I left the workshop with both a much better defined framework of what soft skills are needed to grow my team, and techniques to improve those skills.
- Byron JungSoftware development project manager
I found the information Gil provided invaluable and very well presented. The insights gained in that seminar will change my approach to software development forever.
- Alon SabiCTO, Functionpoint Software
Gil brings an enormously helpful message that companies ignore at their peril if they want to deepen their investment in Agile. He’s experienced in many of the challenges to Agile teams, and resourceful in coaching teams through new challenges.
- Michael GoiteinPrincipal project manager at Mobiquity