Agile has become overly decorated. Simplifying it to just the four words: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve, recovers the original sense of the movement, makes the concept more powerful, and also easier to get started with.

Prolific author, technical expert, and insightful teacher Dr. Alistair Cockburn is making a unique tour of Europe this summer! Join him for this amazing 1-day masterclass: Learn how collaboration improves delivery, and how reflection leads to improvement. This course will leave you with many ideas for how to improve your team and your initiative, in whatever industry you are in.

“Alistair re-ignited my passion for agile.” — Tony Ponton

This class is a conversation, a workshop, an experience. The key is the power of the concepts introduced. Each concept is introduced with activities to help anchor them.

    “People walk away with more insight with which to advance their own agility and those of the people around them.”

Who Should Attend:
People from any industry looking to modernize and improve their team’s way of working. No prior knowledge of any field, industry or practice is needed, only curiosity and a desire to improve.

Level: Aimed for beginner and Intermediate practitioners, any industry or role, but experienced people say they gained many new insights from Alistair’s presentation of known topics.

Location: QualityMinds
Chiemgaustraße 116, 80636 Munich

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: EUR 540

Workshop contents:

• Understand what is and isn’t agile development, what forms the heart of agile;

• Learn how basic agile ideas can apply to any type of initiative, in any industry;
• See how teamwork, communication & frequent delivery improve your project;

• Learn new ways to collaborate;
• Learn how to slice projects and initiatives into thin slices;
• Learn how to apply micro improvements.
• How to hold a “reflective improvement” workshop to improve the team’s actions.

The main purpose of this short course is to give attendees an appreciation for the power of agile development when done effectively, as well as the importance of each of the core elements, Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve.

“By lunchtime you knew there is no going back.”

Author Bio:

Dr. Alistair Cockburn (pronounced CO-BURN) was named as one of the “42 Greatest Software Professionals of All Times” in 2020, as a world expert on methodologies, project management, software architecture, use cases and agile development. He co-authored both the Agile Manifesto and the Project Management Declaration of Inter-dependence. Since 2015 he has been working on expanding agile to cover every kind of initiative, including social impact project, governments, and families. For his latest work, see https://alistaircockburn.com/.