A given in our world and our work today is increasing complexity. We need to solve more complex problems in less time than ever before.
In the software development domain, a group of the best practitioners observed in 2001: "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organising teams" [www.agilemanifesto.org, 2001]. This started a revolution in the IT world called "Agile".
A decade later, we are confident that this holds true for a wide variety of work. But, we have more or less failed to help managers at every level in our organisations know how to cope with these changes. Questions like: "What do we need in order to support this self-organisation?" and "Could there be any way of helping this special kind of teamwork to emerge?" remain unanswered for the majority of people who are accountable for the work of others.
In studies we have conducted with a number of North American and European organisations, we have observed that investment in developing leadership skills is essential to creating lasting benefit from Agile methods.
As with communication, the ability to lead is not a given. In order to support self-organising teams effectively, special training is helpful. Combining the essential soft skills of professional facilitation with agile know-how, you develop a very different mindset to the one conventionally assumed when attempting to "manage" a team.
Leading Self-Organising Teams
As our response to this leadership development challenge, we have created a pragmatic, two-day Leading Self-Organising Teams training course for technical managers and professionals that helps them to develop basic skills, including scanning, framing, dialoguing and facilitating, and changing. These form an essential part of the Agile Leadership Model developed by Dr Sigi Kaltenecker and Thomas Spielhofer.
Dr Kaltenecker will be making his fourth visit to South Africa in November to co-facilitate this training, which will be presented in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Course leaders
Dr Kaltenecker is an organisational consultant with extensive experience in change management and leadership coaching. He is co-owner and managing partner of Loop Consultancy. He is co-editor of the Platform for Agile Management and co-author of the book: "Kanban in IT: Creating a culture of continuous improvement".
Peter Hundermark has worked with iterative and incremental software development processes for more than a decade. He is a Certified Scrum Coach and Trainer and a member of the Stoos Network. He is the author of "Do Better Scrum". His passion is helping leaders in organisations achieve lasting change.
Course details
Leading Self-Organising Teams
Johannesburg o 15 - 16 November 2012
Cape Town o 19 - 20 November 2012
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