Topic

Encouraging Leadership to be more Enthusiastic about Agile

Response

Leadership and the members of an Agile Team are required to continue investing in their personal learning to ensure the benefits of the organisational agility transformational program are maintained in a very turbulent and unpredictable environment.

The most successful approached to planning and maintaining a continuous learning strategy is to adopt a methodical approach that divides the opportunities to learn into three distinct categories.

Grazing, snacking and dining.

Grazing - taking approximately 10 to 15 minutes each day as a matter to routine to browse a small number of well selected websites to keep you informed of the latest developments. These headlines, which may include notices regarding the publications of case studies, company or competitor news and market insights or articles on general agility practices, will enable you to choose wisely those you should commit further time to learn more about as part of your snacking allocation. A list of the most suitable grazing sources should be available from your agile community of practices.

Snacking - invest a few hours per week learning more about the details of a recent grazing discovery. This learning experience may lead to further commitments or actions, which you share with your peers and agile teams.

Dining - a formal investment of your time, typically takes the form of attending a course, conference or workshop. During these learning events, which typically occur once a quarter enable you to discuss something specific about an emerging topic or topics or invest the necessary time with your peers to address an organisational issue. As a leader you should consider visiting other organisations in other sectors as part of an organisational wide benchmarking learning strategy .

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