Agile Management 

• Why Agile management 

• What Agile management is 

• History 

• Agile management and SCRUM 

• Agile Manifesto 

• Agile values 

• Complexity 

• Customer benefits 

• Value creation 

• Learning with the method Inspect & Adapt 

• Paradigm change 

• Why the change is difficult 

• Why we would change 

• Exercises (3) 

 

SCRUM Methodology – Team and Team roles 

• SCRUM process – intro 

• Team roles (Team, SCRUM master, Product Owner, Manager, Others) 

• Team formation 

• Team and Team roles 

• Motivation 

• Professionalism 

• Exercises (2) 

 

SCRUM Methodology – Artefacts and process 

• SCRUM process – in depth 

• Inspect & Adapt application – quality 

• Artefacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User Story, Task/Assignment, Velocity, Reporting, Estimation, Standup meeting 

• Visualization and DoD 

• Reporting – Burn-down graph function 

• Retrospective 

• Exercises (6) 

 

Management learning 

• How do managers learn? 

• Principles and requirements of networked management learning 

 

Research questions 

• Skills and attitudes needed for agile practice 

• Do agile methods need agile persons? 

• How can professional competences needed for agile management be developed? 

• How can agile methods be applied in international projects? What adaptations are needed? 

• Which research questions do agile methods bring up?