Improve Your Agile Skills With 5 Business Books
4.8 (5)
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Study how the ideas from major business books can help your team improve its agility.
Improve Your Agile Skills With 5 Business Books
4.8 (5)
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Study how the ideas from major business books can help your team improve its agility.
Course overview
Explore Agile Principles Using The Big Ideas From Popular Business Books
New business books are produced every year with great ideas and strategies that you could be using to help your agile teams succeed...if only you had enough time to read all of them. In this course we are going to introduce you to the key points from 5 popular business books and dig into how their content applies to your agile team.
Who is this course for
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Busy executives who want to use the learning and insight from popular business books to support, encourage, and motivate their agile teams.
02
Agile practitioners who need fresh ways to blend business ideas with the Agile Principles to help their teams succeed.
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Business people who need ways to introduce Agile Principles in environments that more receptive to well known business writing.
What you’ll get out of this course
Identify Agile Principles In Popular Business Books
Agile ideas aren't limited to software projects. Business books are full of suggestions and ideas that directly relate to following Agile Principles. These ideas will expand your toolkit of strategies to help your agile team better deliver for you customer.
Expand Your Business Language
Agile practitioners will especially benefit from identifying ways better communicate with project stakeholders using language and strategies and book references that resonate with business minds.
Discover Books Worth Reading
After going through the summary and discussion of the key ideas of each book, you will be able to identify which books will provide you with the most ROI to invest in reading the entire thing.
Engage With Like Minded Students In Your Cohort
The interactions with other students provides valuable perspectives on the dynamics of agile teams as everyone discusses ways to apply the ideas being discussed to their specific situations.
Business Book Summary Library
Students will get 12 months of access to a library of 300+ business books summaries to continue mining the best business minds for strategies to help your agile team.
This course includes
5 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
13 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
5 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Improve Your Agile Skills With 5 Business Books
Course syllabus
Week 1
Feb
21
Little Bets
Little Bets
Week 2
Feb
28
5 Dysfunctions of a Team
5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Week 3
Mar
6
Tribal Leadership
Tribal Leadership
Week 4
Mar
13
Good to Great
Good to Great
Week 5
Mar
20
Team of Teams
Team of Teams
Post-course
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Meet your instructor
Mark Shead
Agile Coach & Software Engineer
Mark Shead has worked as a system administrator, network administrator, IT director, and software engineer in a variety of industries. For the past decade, he has been partnering with agile teams at startups, mature businesses, the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve Bank to use the Agile Principles to deliver software at lower risk and lower cost.
Mark hosts a weekly Agile Lunch & Learn and is the creator of a series of very popular Agile cartoons on his Youtube channel.
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Improve Your Agile Skills With 5 Business Books
Course schedule
1 - 3 hours per week
Wednesdays
12pm - 1pm Eastern
We will meet on Monday at noon Eastern time with the first live session on February 21st and the final on March 20th.
February 21st, 2024
12 Noon Eastern
Little Bets by Peter Sims. Steve Jobs, Chris Rock, Frank Gehry, Pixar films and an Army Chief all know that small discoveries and insights can be the fuel that transforms an era. Learn how this approach support the Agile Principles.
February 28th, 2024
12 Noon Eastern
5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. This book explores the dysfunctions that hold teams back from working well together. With so much of Agile success coming from effective teamwork, this book will give you many strategies that will help make your teams more successful.
March 6th, 2024
12 noon Eastern
Tribal Leadership by by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright. This book shows how successful teams create environments where people want to show up and do their best.
March 13th, 2024
12 Noon Eastern
Good to Great by Jim Collins. This classic of business literature explores the principles that make for great companies. While the examples may be dated, the strategies are as relevant today as when it was published.
March 20th, 2024
12 Noon Eastern
Team of Teams by by Stanley McChrystal. This book explains how the army was able to transition away from top down command to empowering teams that can act with independence. The lessons are extremely relevant for supporting self-organizing teams.
Work outside of class time is optional
This class is for busy people, so everything you need to do will happen during the weekly hour long class. While you are encouraged to review the material ahead of time and answer some of the questions. We will discuss everything in our live class.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and high participation as we explore the big ideas from important books to help your agile team.
Designed for busy people
Video, text, and project questions will be available to view ahead of each class, but the class is designed to let you succeed without any outside study.
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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