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Developing Agile Teams

Create Change-Ready Teams

Chaired by
Steve Browne

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Overview

Public sector organisations are often large and have a vast range of roles to perform, from delivering public services to working on a variety of projects. Adopting a more agile approach can help your team better respond and deliver to ever-changing demands on public services.

Our Developing Agile Teams course can equip you with a diverse range of agile tools and techniques to empower your team to navigate change with ease. Unlock the full potential of your team and enhance their adaptability.

Join experienced Consultant, Steve Browne, to create an action plan to foster greater accountability and drive continuous improvement within your team.


Project Management Consultant, AgilePM Accredited Trainer


Steve started as a computer programmer, working for a subsidiary of Nat West bank, before taking on a role in pre-sales consultancy and client training both in the UK and internationally.

He became involved in Project Management in the 1980’s while working for a services company. Two spells as a company director saw Steve develop a strong interest in formal methods. A return to full time project management included a series of increasingly complex projects and led to programme and portfolio management roles. He has worked with both on-shore and off-shore teams to deliver change ...


Steve Browne


Learning Outcomes

  • Understand when to use agile

  • Create the organisational culture needed to successfully develop agile teams

  • Ensure continuous improvement for your team through effective feedback loops

  • Understand how agile management can benefit your organisation and colleagues

  • Evaluate your organisation’s management structure and take back a strategic action plan for implementing agile structures within your organisation




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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration


09:00 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives


10:00 - 10:30 Understanding How and When to Use Agile

Take part in an interactive activity to understand the benefits of working in an iterative and incremental way.

  • Incremental vs Big Bang – vaccination exercise

  • The Stacey Matrix

  • Roadmaps vs detailed plans

  • MVPs and learning

  • Non-IT uses of agile


10:30 - 10:40 Morning Break


10:40 - 11:30 Developing an Agile Mindset

Learn about the attributes of adaptable teams.

  • Agile values

  • Build and motivating an agile team

  • Create a culture of trust

  • The multi-disciplinary approach

  • Team size and the network of teams


11:30 - 11:40 Break


11:40 - 12:30 Agile Routine Work

Improving delivery of the on-going workload.

  • The ‘coins’ game

  • The kanban paradox

  • Manage flow

  • Key metrics

  • Improvement through experimentation


12:30 - 13:30 Lunch


13:30 - 14:30 Agile When Creating or Updating

Applying agile to the creation or updating of policies, processes and capabilities.

  • Designate and empower a product owner

  • Maintain a backlog

  • Work in sprints

  • Keep a flat team coordinated

  • Have a release plan


14:30 - 14:40 Break


14:40 - 15:30 Agile to Support Change

Using an agile approach to larger scale changes.

  • An agile project lifecycle

  • The key to hitting deadlines

  • Control and governance

  • Business change built-in

  • Benefits managed throughout

15:30 - 15:40 Break


15:40 - 16:00 Implementing Agile in Your Organisation

Plan how to implement the agile tools and techniques learnt throughout the day within your organisation.

  • Assess your organisational structure

  • Implement a personalised action plan

  • Adapt agile techniques to your teams


16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

  • Effective Report Writing, Senior Engineering Specialist, Eastleigh Borough Council

    “This course provided an excellent understanding of how to write effectively and why it is important to do so.”

  • Effective Proofing and Editing Skills: Senior Events Officer, King's College London

    “I would really recommend the course. Sue is a fantastic trainer and the day passed by far too quickly. Lots of helpful resources to take away, also very impressed with the smooth transition to online learning. Thank you!

  • Effective Data Visualisation: Corporate Performance Management Officer, Carmarthenshire County Council

    “I have learned a great deal with many tips and ideas to enable to improve the authority’s reports”

  • Effective Business Process Mapping: Internal Quality and Improvement Officer, Social Work England

    “It was a fun course to take a part in. There was a lot of information given, and it was done in an engaging way with lots of interactivity, even over zoom. i really enjoyed the course and learned lots from it.”

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