How Agilists Rise to the Top
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
For Agilists (Scrum Masters, RTEs, Program Leads) who want to unlock the hidden skills to rise to the top in career performance & promotion.
How Agilists Rise to the Top
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
For Agilists (Scrum Masters, RTEs, Program Leads) who want to unlock the hidden skills to rise to the top in career performance & promotion.
Course overview
Are you a servant leader invested in others? It's time to invest in yourself.
While Agile certification courses cover processes and mindsets for teams and organizations, this career-focused course is for you, the Agile leader. In it, you will learn and apply skills in emotional intelligence, systems thinking, and data-driven process improvement that will raise your confidence, expand your expertise, and turn Agile "book knowledge" into real-life results that get noticed.
During our 20-year careers working at Fortune 100 financial services companies, we have directly managed and participated in performance and promotion calibrations for hundreds of people in Agile, program, and project management roles. We've had the opportunity to develop a strong and reliable point-of-view on what differentiates top performance for Agilists. Now we'd love to teach you!
Who is this course for
01
Scrum Masters & Agile Delivery Leads
02
Release Train Engineers & Program Managers
03
Managers, Directors and Coaches of Agilists
While Agile certification courses cover process and mindset, this career-focused course will:
Align yourself with your leaders and stakeholders on what success looks like
Identify what you need to know to have a respected and valued voice
Set your team up for success with a team charter
Demonstrate ways to expand the impact of your results to get you recognized
How Agilists Rise to the Top
What people are saying
Greg Jaeger
Valerie Santillo
Jon De La Cruz
Meet your instructors
Doug Steele
Doug is passionate about making people and companies better versions of themselves. Over a twenty-year career at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Capital One, he's built relationships, teams, strategic thinking, and organizational capabilities that deliver customer-aligned technology solutions safely, quickly, and humanely.
He has led the design and implementation of performance benchmarks used to measure job performance for hundreds of Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and other Agile Delivery Leaders at Fortune 100 companies.
Marie Dingess
Marie began her Tech career 22 years ago as an engineer with a Fortune 100 company. After many different roles within Technology, her passion for people, process, and technology led her to Agile Coaching and Portfolio Management. Marie has a track record of helping organizations & teams achieve more throughput, sustainable pace, improved prioritization, and an increased ownership of their process.
In addition to speaking at various industry events, Marie gives back to the Agile community by mentoring Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters to achieve their career goals.
Marie has participated in performance and promotion calibrations for hundreds of people across Agile, program, project management, and engineering roles. Also, she helped develop performance benchmarks and interview standards for Agilists in a Fortune 100 organization.
Course syllabus
01
Align With Your Leader and Customers
- Align yourself with your leaders and customers on what success looks like
- Use empathy to gain an understanding of where you can make a difference
- Understand the potential scope of your role versus what people actually value
- Align with others on their expectations of you
02
Learn the World of Your Products and Teams
- Identify what you need to know to have a respected and valued voice
- Learn how you can leverage Lean Product Canvases, Technical Architecture Diagrams, and Stakeholder Maps to build the domain expertise you need to be more than a process manager in your role
03
Lead Yourself, Lead Your Team
- Set your team up for success with a team charter
- Set intentions for Vision, Values, and Mission for you and your team
- Learn techniques to have impactful conversations when you and your teams go off course from your intentions
04
Create An Action Plan for Measurable Change
- Expand the impact of your results to get you recognized
- Decide what's worth changing
- Figure out how to measure the change well
- Brag better about your and your teams' results
Course schedule
5-7 hours per week *
July Cohort
Mondays and Wednesdays, July 10 - 21
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST | July 10, 12, 19 and 21
*Time commitment: In addition to the live sessions, plan for an additional 1-2 hours of self-paced assignments for each session.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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