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Dean Leffingwell

Lean|Agile Leadership Workshop

Leading the Lean|Agile Enterprise: A Two-day Workshop for Leaders, Managers, and Executives.

Overview By Dean Leffingwell

While working with a number of software enterprises in the throes of large-scale Lean|Agile rollouts, one thing is increasingly clear: these rollouts will not reach their full potential until first, mid, and upper-level management is fully on board.

Since Scrum starts bottom-up, or at least the training focuses almost exclusively on the team level, perhaps our expectation has been that awareness of the initiative at the management levels was enough. Perhaps we thought that mangers would naturally fold into the mix and provide the requisite support and leadership needed for success at this next level. 

However, I have personally had to reset those expectations for managers in these large-scale Lean|Agile rollouts. It is simply not sufficient to be supportive. Rather they must be engaged, empowered and sufficiently knowledgeable to be able to lead, coach and drive the transition.

Doing, so however, requires orientation and training which does not appear off-the-shelf from the Agile or Scrum community. To this end, my two-day workshop is designed specifically for managers and executives in such a transition. The workshop covers many of the concepts articulated in my recent book, Agile Software Requirements (Addison-Wesley 2011) and is based on the Five Keys to building the Lean|Agile Enterprise:

• Not Everything is a User Story: Scalable Agile Requirements
• Think Agile Programs, Not Just Agile Teams: The Agile Release Train
• Enterprise Systems Require Intentional Architecture: Rearchitecting with Flow
• Portfolio Management Must be Agile Too: Addressing Legacy Mindsets; creating the Agile PMO
• Your Enterprise Can Be No Leaner Than the Executives Thinking: Lean Thinking Executives and Kaizen Mind

But this workshop, designed for managers, is much broader with the inclusion of the introduction to Lean Product Development and Scaling Leadership modules. You can tell from the learning objectives that this is a serious undertaking:

• Provide a principled, lean and flow-based product development foundation for improving competitiveness, economics and return on investment in product development
• Introduce the basic and advanced Agile principles and practices necessary support large-scale agile software development transformation
• Introduce and experience Scrum as a potential mechanism for implementing team-level software agility
• Introduce and explore the Agile Release Train as a means to provide strategic alignment and implement product development flow across the enterprise
• Provide a leadership framework that helps management facilitate an effective, large-scale, lean and agile transformation
• Provide a set of readings and activities intended to allow the attendees to continue to learn and inculcate these ideas over time

Dean Leffingwell is an entrepreneur, executive, author and consulting methodologist who provides agile transformation consulting services to large software enterprises.

Recently, Mr. Leffingwell was founder and CEO of consumer marketing identity company, ProQuo, Inc.He also served as chief methodologist to Rally Software (www.rallydev.com) where he focused on the application of agile development methods to large scale software development. Formerly, Mr. Leffingwell served as Sr. Vice President to Rational Software (now IBM’s Rational Division), where his responsibilities included development and commercialization of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), ClearQuest, RequisitePro and the company’s methodology and product training courses. More informations about Dean can be find at: http://scalingsoftwareagility.wordpress.com/

Venue

SAP-University, Raiffeisenring 37, ROT 03, St. Leon-Rot (Walldorf), Deutschland.
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Registration

Registration Fee:
- 1.450,00 € plus. 19% VAT.
- Early Bird 1.350,00 €

The registration fee includes the seminar documents, catering etc. but not the transportation, hotel costs etc. The registration fee has to be payed directly after receipt and before the course starts. By cancellation more than two weeks before course start we charge 20% of the regular course fee. By cancellation after this timeframe or "no show" we charge the complete course fee.