Agile Leadership

Earners of this badge are able to: • Analyze and discuss both Lean and Agile principles and methodologies • Utilize knowledge from developments in Lean and iterative and incremental (or Agile) delivery • Gauge project complexity using the Cynefin framework • Discuss the four cornerstones of agile project delivery • Deliver projects through empirical process control and visible progress tracking • Draw on two distinct Agile frameworks: Scrum and Kanban • Integrate at a fundamental level, Agile project management practices with Agile engineering practices, and • Manage increasing complexity and change in project delivery through Agile methodologies.

Earners of this badge are able to: • Analyse and discuss the Scrum roles, ceremonies, and artifacts and how they integrate, • Relate each Scrum role, what they manage, and how they are measured, • Create a Definition of Done for an Agile team, • Engage in Scrum ceremonies/meetings while building a real product, and • Recognize how the ScrumMaster guides the team to continuously improve.

Earners of this badge are able to: • Analyze and discuss the three stages of empirical process control, • Identify and describe the attributes of a potentially shippable product increment, • Develop a long-term roadmap that involves release planning, • Assess and manage risk through iterative and incremental development, • Extend team agility through the project while meeting business objectives, • Communicate on various means of measuring the success and performance of an agile team, and • Create an Agile Program Management Office (PMO) based on outcomes and increments, not activities and milestones.

Earners of this badge are able to: • Analyze and discuss the role of the product owner and product owner teams in agile environments, • Map artifacts used in the agile methodology to the five levels of planning, • Design and maintain an incremental release plan that maximizes a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), • Prioritize competing requirements for a large, complex product, • Create product visions and frameworks that guide development teams in projects, • Transfer a vision into a product roadmap that features the requirements and aspects prioritized by project stakeholders, and • Collaborate in project development and empirically track delivery against a release plan.

Earners of the badge are able to: • Analyze and discuss traditional management vs catalytic agile leadership responsibilities • Assess and manage team dynamics, motivations, and positive reinforcement of actions • Implement Agile approaches to solving problems and accelerating self-organization • Create leadership, sustainability, and growth in the agile environment • Utilize the role of powerful questions in catalytic leadership • Analyze and implement Agile methodology within your organizational culture • Choose and manage organizational change models that support your organization’s Agile journey, and • Understand problems or organizational contexts as it applies to agile change