David Laribee's Leading Lean/Agile Teams (ARCHITECT-01-02)
CODE: ARCHITECT-01-02 DURATION: 2 DAY/S
Successful product teams need a generalist who can help teams come together and
perform - a leader who can bring a holistic toolkit to the whole team, customer and
programmer alike. In this two day workshop, attendees will be introduced to a series of
collaborative practices that ensure user-centred products, lightweight, useful processes
and technical excellence. This course is appropriate for developers, technical leads,
architects and coaches.
LEARN HOW TO:
Build a real team, not just a collection of co-workers
Coach people towards involvement and creativity
Center your product directly on your intended users
Define just enough process and improve over time
Select practices that deliver the most value
PROGRAMME
Lead the People
Team Values, Roles and Rights
Personal Coaching Techniques
Increasing Involvement with Retrospectives
Team Mental Models
Lead the Product
Product Vision and Chartering
Building a Backlog
User Experience Fundamentals
Collaborative Design
Managing and Repaying Technical Debt
The Importance of Architecture
Lead the Process
Essential eXtreme Programming
Implementing Kanban
Release-per-feature and Concurrent Releases
Retrospectives vs. Stop-the-line
Lead the Practice
Introducing Practices, Getting Buy-in
User Stories and Acceptance Testing with BDD
Domain-Driven Design and Continuous Modeling
SOME PICS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Laribee coaches the product development team at VersionOne. He has over a dozen years experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Lean/Agile teams.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"The course was exactly what I expected and wanted. Great value. David is an excellent presenter and the material & hands-on exercises made for a valuable two days. Would recommend it."
Course Delegate
Dec 2009
"The course did a good job of covering various topics around the agile way of doing things and put it in perspective."
Course Delegate
Dec 2009
"Lots of simple-to-apply techniques giving a very powerful way to break down the problem space and manage the process & people in the team."
Course Delegate
Dec 2009
"Good techniques. Lots of exercises - very good experience to take away."
Sean Witter
Oct 2010
"Excellent content and pace of course."
Bryan McCarthy, Development Team Lead
Oct 2010
"Excellent trainer with a lot of practical experience and ideas"
Katharina Duncan
Nov 2010
IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
If you are an aspiring or existing technical lead, senior developer, coach or architect, and you want to learn actionable techniques and tools for leading your team toward greater throughput and technical excellence, this is the course for you!
COURSE PREREQUISITES
Attendees to this course should have a basic understanding of agile to gain the maximum benefit from this course. In addition experience of working in a team context would be a distinct advantage.
COURSE LABS & EXERCISES
During this very intensive workshop, we'll engage in a diverse array of discussions, exercises and summary talks.
