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Bitesize

Clear intent, free hands

Leading agile organisations and agile teams.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 15 minutes
Where
Agile and New Ways of Working
Price
£39

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

Agile teams need more direction, not less, but of a different kind. This module draws on Heifetz's adaptive challenges, Bungay's three gaps and directed opportunism, Moltke's mission command, Kniberg's alignment and autonomy grid and Greenleaf's servant leadership to set out five parts of the redesigned leader's role. McChrystal's team of teams and Task Force 714 show how shared context gives speed at scale. The team, not the individual, is the basic unit of agile working. This module covers bringing work to stable teams, Skelton and Pais's Team Topologies with its four team types and three interaction modes, cognitive load as a design constraint, Conway's Law and the inverse Conway manoeuvre, and Amy Edmondson's psychological safety. Google's Project Aristotle is the case, read with care about what the company itself reported.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges, and explain Bungay's three gaps and why the instinctive response to each makes it worse.
  2. Set intent and boundaries for a team, checking understanding through backbriefing, so that the people closest to the work can decide how.
  3. Assess how shared context, empowered execution and trust across boundaries could help the teams you lead move faster while keeping public accountability.
  4. Compare points on the spectrum of team stability, and explain why stable, cross-functional teams that own a service suit work that keeps changing.
  5. Use Team Topologies, cognitive load and the inverse Conway manoeuvre to design or review teams around the service you want users to experience.
  6. Recognise how psychological safety underpins stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, and plan leadership behaviours and working agreements that build it.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 15 minutes of learning.

  1. 06Leading Agile Organisations: Intent, Autonomy and AlignmentAgile teams need more direction, not less, but of a different kind. This module draws on Heifetz's adaptive challenges, Bungay's three gaps and directed opportunism, Moltke's mission command, Kniberg's alignment and autonomy grid and Greenleaf's servant leadership to set out five parts of the redesigned leader's role. McChrystal's team of teams and Task Force 714 show how shared context gives speed at scale.40 min
  2. 07Agile Teams: Structure, Safety and Cognitive LoadThe team, not the individual, is the basic unit of agile working. This module covers bringing work to stable teams, Skelton and Pais's Team Topologies with its four team types and three interaction modes, cognitive load as a design constraint, Conway's Law and the inverse Conway manoeuvre, and Amy Edmondson's psychological safety. Google's Project Aristotle is the case, read with care about what the company itself reported.40 min
Where it fits

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Part of the Agile and New Ways of Working topic, also sold whole as Lighter, faster, more human.

How credit works

Go deeper, and pay only the difference

  1. You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
  2. Next stepFocus, Agile across the organisation, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
  3. Explore, Agile from the ground up, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
  4. The whole topicImmerse, Lighter, faster, more human, 11 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms

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