In fact, collaboration tools like Zoom allow for a remarkable amount of team interaction, and Agile practitioners have developed a substantial body of knowledge about how to work, facilitate, teach, and coach when everyone is in a different location.

In this session, you will learn how to facilitate awesome meetings and great classes with Zoom. The topics will range from basic mechanics (how to create meetings and share screens) to group dynamics (how to encourage engagement and interaction). The discussion will also examine ways to manage Agile processes and teach and coach Agile organizations online. The session will be conducted online with Zoom (of course).

About the Speakers:

Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team building and high-performance teams. Richard is the author of High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. Richard teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University, and co-teaches the Spark! fellowship at Boston University. Richard is currently president of Agile New England. Subscribe to his newsletter at www.kasperowski.com.

David Kramer is a Technical Agile Coach, Software Engineering Manager, DevOps Engineer, and Trainer. He has been deeply involved in developing quality software for over 20 years, and part of the Agile community for over about 15 years. David has worked in many industries, including eCommerce, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), HR, FinTech, and social media. He is co-inventor on two patents and an active contributor to the open source community. David is on the Board of Agile New England. Follow him on Twitter at @dj_segfault

Molly Monet-Viera is a senior lecturer at Boston University. She has been teaching all levels of Spanish language and Hispanic literature and culture at the university level since 1996. Originally from California, she fell in love with the language at Princeton and went on to get a PhD in Spanish from Yale. In addition to traditional classroom courses and tutoring, she also developed an AP Spanish massive open online course (MOOC) that has enrolled over 30,000 students of all ages and nationalities.

Most corporate training fails at its goal of effecting organizational change, and most training of any kind fails because of something called the Forgetting Curve. Without regular practice at new skills and concepts, people can’t remember what they learned in a class. It’s not their fault—it’s simply a human trait. So how do we facilitate effective learning? How can we support learners with effective courses, skills practice, and learning environments?

Lisa Sieverts and Richard Kasperowski created and teach Agile courses at Harvard University, and they teach, coach, and consult in industry. They share their experience in designing effective courses and co-creating excellent learning environments. They guide you through a series of fun activities to create your own Agile curriculum and learning modules. You’ll leave understanding how to design effective learning experiences and support your staff as they put their new Agile skills and knowledge into practice.

Who should attend? Leaders, coaches, Scrum Masters, trainers, team members, and anyone else who cares about sharing Agile mindset and practices to improve the way their organization works.

About the Speakers:

Lisa Sieverts owns Facilitated Change, an independent project management consulting company based in Harrisville, NH. She is credentialed as an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) and a Project Management Professional (PMP®) by the Project Management Institute, a global leader in the development of standards for the practice of project management. Before launching her own company in 2003, she worked for Hewlett-Packard in California and Idaho. In addition to her consulting business, she currently teaches Agile Project Management for the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, MA.

Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team building high-performance teams. Richard is the author two books: High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. He leads clients in building and maintaining high-performance teams that get great results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University. Learn more and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at www.kasperowski.com.

The Core Protocols are the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy. Over the last 20 years, the McCarthys studied hundreds of teams and thousands of students in a laboratory setting, giving each team a work assignment and deadline of one week to deliver a great product. The McCarthys observed the teams and factored out their success patterns. They encoded these success patterns–behavior patterns of successful teams—as 11 repeatable “protocols”, easy recipes that we can all follow, so we and our teams can reproducibly deliver great products on time every time.

In this presentation, Richard Kasperowski will introduce the Core Protocols. He will share the fundamentals of the Core Protocols and guide attendees through activities that help them learn and retain these same successful behavior patterns. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to build a team that is in a state of shared vision and can deliver great products on time every time.

About the speaker:

Richard Kasperowski is a cofounder of the Greatness Guild and the author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness. He works as a Core Protocols trainer and coach, Agile trainer and coach, and Open Space facilitator. He teaches the class, Agile Software Development at Harvard University’s Extension School. Read about him at www.kasperowski.com.