Scope on coordinating multiple agile teams expands through small agreements made in isolation. Most recovery effort on agile teams is spent on problems that were visible early. The version of this aspect of project and portfolio delivery described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in coordinating multiple agile teams rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. It concentrates on the parts of the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Across sectors, teams that rehearse agile teams outperform teams that only plan it. They acquire practical criteria for judging when coordinating multiple agile teams is working and when it is only appearing to. The programme works equally well for those formalising agile teams for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this area of project and portfolio delivery that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Build a concise delivery plan for coordinating multiple agile teams that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
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Manage stakeholders of agile teams according to influence and interest.
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Define the scope and boundaries of coordinating multiple agile teams so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
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Plan handover and benefit realisation for agile teams.
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Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of coordinating multiple agile teams.
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Draw practical lessons from failures in agile teams without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.
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Estimate cost and effort for coordinating multiple agile teams using more than one method.
Who Should Attend
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Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in coordinating multiple agile teams.
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Risk managers supporting agile teams.
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Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring coordinating multiple agile teams.
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Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by agile teams.
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Planners and schedulers building the timeline for coordinating multiple agile teams.
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Technical leads delivering work packages within agile teams.
Course Modules
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01
Coordinating multiple agile teams: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Closing coordinating multiple agile teams and capturing what was learned
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to coordinating multiple agile teams.
Review whether agile teams is aligned with the objectives of the project.
Plan handover of coordinating multiple agile teams to the team that will operate it.
Measure progress on agile teams by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Session 2Testing agile teams before relying on it
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about coordinating multiple agile teams.
Confirm that those complying with agile teams understand why it exists.
Write the scope statement for coordinating multiple agile teams including explicit exclusions.
Test the procedure for agile teams against a realistic scenario.
02
Agile teams: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Keeping agile teams alive after the initial push
Compare the cost of coordinating multiple agile teams with the cost of its absence.
Register the risks to agile teams with owner, probability and impact.
Hold a lessons session on coordinating multiple agile teams while memory is accurate.
Agree the smallest change to agile teams that would be visibly useful.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of agile teams
Build reporting on coordinating multiple agile teams that surfaces problems while they are small.
Rank the weaknesses in agile teams by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Define acceptance criteria for coordinating multiple agile teams in advance.
Archive the decision record for agile teams so successors understand it.
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Agile teams: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The hard cases in agile teams and how to reason about them
Identify the data already collected that bears on coordinating multiple agile teams.
Compare resource demand from agile teams against other commitments.
Prepare the recovery plan for coordinating multiple agile teams before it is needed.
Establish the boundary of agile teams and record what sits outside it.
Session 2Decision gates on coordinating multiple agile teams that can actually stop it
Agree the escalation threshold for coordinating multiple agile teams in advance.
Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of agile teams.
Set the change control process for coordinating multiple agile teams and require cost and time impact.
Collect evidence on the present handling of agile teams before proposing changes.
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Agile teams: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Recovering agile teams when it is behind
Define the trigger that would require coordinating multiple agile teams to be redesigned.
Review at each gate whether agile teams should continue at all.
Define how the benefit from coordinating multiple agile teams will be measured after closure.
Estimate agile teams using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Session 2Building a schedule for agile teams with a real critical path
Distinguish symptoms from causes when coordinating multiple agile teams underperforms.
Agree what will be standardised in agile teams and what will not.
Set out how exceptions to coordinating multiple agile teams are requested and approved.
Map stakeholders of agile teams by influence and current level of support.
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Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
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