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Agile Leadership and Delivery Essentials

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Discover how to lead and deliver with agility by exploring Scrum, Kanban, and practical tools to apply agile thinking with confidence.

10 Jun 2025
10 Sep 2025
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Delivery
In-Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
1 day
CPD/PLD Hours
7.5

Course overview

Build the confidence and capability to lead and deliver in an agile environment with this practical, hands-on course. Designed to demystify agile ways of working, it equips participants with essential knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and agile leadership principles through actual case studies, and expert facilitation.

Delivered as a dynamic one-day workshop, this course blends theory with practice to ensure concepts are immediately applied and understood. Participants will explore the roles, responsibilities, and common misconceptions in agile delivery, while gaining insight into how agile differs from traditional approaches.

Ideal for team leaders, project managers, emerging leaders, and professionals transitioning to agile environments, this course is perfect for anyone looking to improve team collaboration, delivery outcomes, and adaptability.

Participants will leave with a solid foundation in agile delivery and leadership, along with practical tools to lead with clarity and confidence in today’s fast-paced work environments.

Facilitated by

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Erika Barden

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What you'll learn

  • Develop an agile mindset to lead teams with greater flexibility, responsiveness, and collaboration.
  • Learn the Agile values and principles and how they translate into behaviours.
  • Identify key differences between Agile delivery and the traditional waterfall method to lead with greater confidence. 
  • Learn how to apply Lean, Scrum & Kanban frameworks. 
  • Acknowledge how a different delivery approach needs a different type of leader to be successful. 
  • Break down agile myths and misunderstandings.
  • Bring practical learnings back to your organisation.

Course modules

How to ‘be’ agile before we ‘do’ agile: Explore the mindset and behaviours that support agile leadership. Understand why agility starts with how we think, communicate, and collaborate—not just the tools we use.

Agile vs Traditional Delivery: Examine the core differences between traditional ‘waterfall’ and agile delivery methods, with a focus on how they approach planning, estimation, and delivering value. Learn when and why agile can drive better outcomes.

Benefits of Agile Delivery: Identify the key advantages of agile, including faster feedback loops, improved adaptability, and greater customer value. Discuss how these benefits play out in different team and organisational settings.

Agile Delivery Approaches – Lean, Scrum and Kanban: Gain a high-level understanding of the most widely used agile frameworks. Learn how Lean thinking informs agile delivery, and dive into the roles, workflows, and rhythms of Scrum and Kanban.

Leading in an agile environment: Discover what it means to lead in an agile context. Explore the shift from control to enablement, and learn how to support empowered, high-performing teams.

Agile Jargon and Myth Buster: Cut through the buzzwords. Learn the real meaning behind common agile terms, and debunk the myths that often confuse or derail agile adoption.

Here's what others are saying

“Erika is an excellent facilitator. The course was well constructed, covering a lot of content with timely interactive activities and demystifying Agile. I feel a lot more confident about my service focused leadership style now, and have language and new tools to help structure my team’s projects and time better.”

“Great course, lots of different leadership ideas.”

“A course worth attending if you run projects.”

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

10 Jun 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

10 Sep 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

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