This course is part of the Agile Leadership Specialization

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Oxana Trotsenko

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Agile Leadership SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

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Now that you have undergone personal information, you will be better prepared to empathize, understand, and mentor individual members of your team on a similar journey. Leading teams towards change-resilience is not as simple as knowing and understanding the psychology of individuals multiplied by a number of team members. It requires a different approach. 
In this course, you will learn what influences human behavior in teams by looking at social psychology. You will evaluate your team’s level of change resilience and agility, and you will be applying practical tools for building Agile teams by applying Scrum project management framework.  

You won’t stop there, you will learn how to be a servant leader. You will learn practical tools for organizing, leading, and facilitating a Scrum team. 

Parts of the content are written from a Scrum Master perspective, and even though you will not be able to use it as a Scrum Master certification, I will be sharing tools and best practices learned through my own experience of being a Scrum Master.

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Agile Leadership Specialization

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Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.

Approx. 9 hours to complete

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Flexible deadlines

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100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Course 3 of 5 in the

Agile Leadership Specialization

Beginner Level

Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

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Oxana Trotsenko

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Social Psychology

When we lead change, we typically rely on change management theories for help. They bring structure, ease, and they provide context for the psychology of an individual and also organizational psychology. This leaves a gap, which manifests in how others influence individual behavior, or, in other words, social psychology. Even though the domain of social psychology is often overlooked, it provides key insights for the successful execution of change management theories. In this module, you will learn the basics of social psychology, which is instrumental as you begin implementing change management theories at the team and organizational levels.

2 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 29 min)

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Agile Team

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 13 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Agile Team Collaboration

Scrum is a lightweight Agile framework. It can be applied across different industries, it is simple, and it can be adopted fairly quickly if the team is open to it.

In this module, you will learn Scrum terminology and tools for transforming your team into an Agile one. You will be introduced to the concept of sprint planning, daily scrum, work velocity, and retrospective. As you begin implementing these tools, invite your team to take a learning journey with you. You can suggest it as a “pilot” and see if it works well for your industry, company, and your team.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 22 min)

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Agile Team Leadership

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 44 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DEVELOPING AN AGILE TEAM

by IAMar 30, 2021

Good overall coverage of important topics, but I believe for people new to Agile and Scrum it would be hard to understand why things are done in certain ways. Lack of examples and explanations.

by SPApr 25, 2021

Very useful, especially from a complementary perspective to the managerial one - psychological, sociological

by YMOct 28, 2021

Excellent course who present keys tools and explanations

by RGNov 16, 2022

Course was very useful to understand more how to build a more agile team.

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About the Agile Leadership Specialization

Constant fast change has become a reality of our time. Agile has become a popular leadership philosophy and a project management methodology for addressing this reality. While the theory is simple, it’s much more challenging to become Agile in practice.

To bridge the gap between an easy theory and complex application, you will learn three critical success components for executing the complexity of Agile in practice: the neuroscience of change, social psychology, and change management. In this specialization, you will learn how to become an agile leader, how to build agile teams by using Agile philosophy and Scrum tools, and how to approach transforming a traditional organization into agile. This specialization will prepare you to build change-resiliency within yourself, your team, and your organization and implement Agile practices where appropriate to leverage its maximum benefits.

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