Are you ready for new ways of working that can improve your teams? Would you like to know how self-organized teams are more productive? Would you be interested in keeping employees motivated? All these issues and many more were discussed by our coach. #XACT (Xebia Agile Consulting & Transformation) vertical of #XEBIA successfully held a webinar "#Agile for Managers" on 22nd July 2013. Thanks for the overwhelming response and the interest shown by all 400 professionals across the community. If interested in attending such #webinars, write to me at pgulati@xebia.com

1. Agile for Managers
Webinar
By
Soma Bhattacharya
(Twitter@Soma_b )
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2. Agenda
Who is this session for?
Ø You are part of management.
Ø You are a Product Manager
Ø You are a Project Manager
Ø Team Lead
Ø You are part of HR team.
Ø Sales Manager
Ø Marketing Manager
Ø QA Manager
Ø Engineering Head
Ø You are interested in knowing the Agile way of management

3. What was your childhood dream?
Imagine
Helping others
Photographer
Being a teacher
Building cars
Being a race car driver
Travelling the world

4. What is Being Agile?
Individuals
and
interacRons
OVER
processes
and
tools
Working
so*ware
comprehensive
documentaRon
Customer
collaboraRon
contract
negoRaRon
Responding
to
change
following
a
plan

5. Traits of an Agile Manager
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done,
his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu

6. What should I do as an Agile Manager?
Managers initiate Agile adoption in 77% of the cases.

7. Transformation: Moving into Agile from the traditional
Source :http://www.borland.com/_images/When-Waterfall-and-Agile-Collide_tcm32-208653.pdf)

8. Maintaining the Power

9. Inspiring vs Directing

10. Conflict Resolution

11. Conflict Management

12. Managing an Agile Team

13. Traits of an Agile Team

14. Required Changes in Behavior to Maintain Agile

15. Managing the entire Agile Bandwagon

16. Challenges for the Agile Manager
“Leading is a skill not a gift. You are not born with it, you learn how”.
- Linchpin. Seth Godin

17. Empowering Teams

18. Better Delivery

19. Manager’s Influence

20. Handling the Myths
Ø Silver bullet- executive management
Ø More metrics-management
Ø Command center- PMO
Ø Done= isn’t done till tested- developer
Ø Decision maker-dictates terms- tech lead

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