Agile PM 401 - Advanced Agile Project Management

Explore how agile leadership differs from plan-driven management. Apply leadership grid, adaptive and situational leadership, servant leadership, emotional intelligence, and soft skills negotiation through a real-world case study.

Examine Blake and Mouton’s leadership grid, identifying four styles—authoritarian, country club, impoverished, and team leader—and how task and people concerns drive adaptive, servant leadership in agile teams.

Apply the interest-based relational approach to conflict in agile teams, focusing on listening first, setting out facts, exploring options, and building mutual respect for higher performance.

Discover how Agile team performance differs from traditional projects, emphasizing value delivery and sustainable pace. Explore productivity and environmental factors like leadership, trust, and communication that drive high-performing, self-organizing teams.

Navigate distributed teams by addressing time zone and cultural differences, establish rich communication channels, frequent deliverables, clear objectives, and a shared understanding of agile through inspect and adapt.

Explore why agile team training matters, emphasizing adaptive practice, cross functional collaboration, broad role knowledge, and coaching with retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.

Explore how knowledge sharing drives high-performance agile teams by leveraging tacit and explicit knowledge, cross-functional collaboration, and practices like pair programming, code reviews, standups, and sprint ceremonies.

Explore continuous improvement in agile environments, covering Kaizen, TQM, Six Sigma, and business process reengineering, and learn how to balance flexibility with efficiency while empowering employees.

Kaizen is a continuous improvement philosophy that targets muda, mura, and muri, driving small, incremental changes via plan do check act to boost efficiency and quality in agile work.

Explore total quality management (TQM) as a Deming-influenced approach integrated with agile practice, emphasizing quality built in, continuous improvement, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration through 14 points.

Reengineer core business processes through radical redesign to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, cycle times, and quality by rethinking processes, emphasizing customer value, cross-functional, end-to-end responsibility, and just-in-time collaboration.

Explore cause and effect diagrams, also called Ishikawa or fishbone diagrams, to identify root causes by mapping outcomes to factors. Apply them in agile retrospectives for process improvement.

Explore histograms and Pareto charts to visualize data distribution, compare results to specification limits, and focus agile teams on the most important contributors using the 80/20 rule.

Learn problem detection and resolution within agile teams, including creating safe environments, identifying threats, maintaining a visible risk list, and applying root cause analysis in daily standups and sprint retrospectives.

Learn sprint retrospective techniques to run structured, engaging sessions with start-stop-continue guidance, data gathering, and concrete actions that improve team performance and the definition of done.