Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

Learn to facilitate and contribute to continuous improvement projects to your agile team to deliver the right improvements, complete projects quickly, and work more efficiently.

Introduction

• Stand apart with agile continuous improvement know-how

1. Key Concepts of Agile Continuous Improvement

• What is agile continuous improvement?
• How does continuous improvement fit in the agile workflow?

2. The Five Disciplines of Agile Continuous Improvement

• Why learn the agile continuous improvement disciplines?
• Listen, learn, iterate, and innovate
• Improvements that preempt work from entering the system
• Improvements that shift-left work to self-service
• Improvements that lean-up value streams
• Improvements that build capability into muscle memory

3. Identifying Improvements

• Gaining insight into what could be improved
• Continuous monitoring and assessment
• Force field analysis
• Best practices for identifying improvements

4. Selecting Improvements

• Balancing improvement across types
• Selecting improvements for the sprint to optimize outcomes

5. Making Improvements

• Why improve in sprints?
• Collaborating to carry out improvements
• Making progress
• Ensuring learning

6. Enabling Agile Continuous Improvement

• Why understand the roles people have in making improvements?
• Organizational leaders and managers
• Project leaders and project managers
• Individual contributors
• The continuous improvement team
• The role of technology
• Agreements, artifacts, and rituals

Conclusion

• Take the next step in your agile improvement journey