Empowering Your Team with ICAgile
To deliver great products, you need a great agile team. This course will teach you how to foster collaboration across your team, communicate your team’s progress to your broader organization, and encourage self-organization within your team.
What you'll learn
A team is more than just a group of individuals who share a space. A true team is a group of individuals with complementary skills who are working together towards a shared goal. In this course, Empowering Your Team with ICAgile, you will gain the skills necessary to help your team reach their highest potential. First, you will learn effective strategies for promoting better teamwork across your team. Next, you will discover the benefits of accurately communicating your team’s progress both inside and outside of your team, as well as learn techniques for doing so. Finally, you will explore how to encourage your team to take on a more self-organizing stance and learn what changes must occur in your organization to support this new level of self-organization. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of agile team leadership needed to help your team take control of their own destiny, as well as to enable them to make a more meaningful impact inside of your organization.
Table of contents
- Describing the Traits of a Self-organizing Team 5m
- Comparing Self-organizing Teams to Management-led Teams 5m
- Understanding How the Tuckman Model Applies to Self-organization 7m
- Differentiating Between Self-managed and Self-directed Teams 6m
- Busting the Myths of Self-organization 3m
- Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Afflict Self-organizing Teams 5m
- Wrapping Up 1m
About the author
Jeremy Jarrell is an agile coach and author who helps teams get better at doing what they love. He is heavily involved in the technology community, both as a highly rated speaker throughout the United States and as a syndicated author whose articles and videos have appeared on sites such as InfoQ.com, StickyMinds.com, Simple-Talk.com, and ScrumAlliance.org. Jeremy resides in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children and is an avid runner. He loves to discuss all topics related to agile met... more