If you experienced in using agile methods, and you want to improve or augment your toolset, this course is for you. The course starts by reviewing where you are on your journey, helping you assess where you are using agile method, and how they are helping and where they are challenged. The rest of the course will introduce ideas for discovering and understand your challenges along with tools to address challenges, add new practices or simply augmenting your strengths or practices.

You will leave with a collection of tools for tuning and evolving agility that produces. Participants will create a review of their existing skills and identify specific ideas for improvement or additions to their existing toolset. Frombuilding community to defining products to promoting development agility, hands on exercises engage people to rethink existing habits and learn new techniques.

• Techniques for assessing and improving your existing processes
• The power of testing how and where agile practices are really helping
• Tools for discovering practices which are not working or not showing value
• Newly emerging agile practices and improvements to existing practices
• Indicators helpful in showing when to add, change, drop various practices

• Creative introductions (e.g. who are you as an agilist)
• Assessment of current practices being used
• Evaluation of success and challenges with practices in use.
• Discussion and exercises around leading and promoting agility
• Ideas and tools for improving common (or core) agile practices
• Introduction of newer, cutting edge practices (e.g. lean thinking, design concepts)

This course is for anyone who has been using agile methods for more than 4 iterations: scrum masters, developers, product owners, testers, managers, or anyone part of an agile community using agile methods like Lean, XP and Scrum.