This course will teach you how to build a strong agile foundation, improve performance within and across teams, and create value streams that accelerate delivery. You’ll learn how to diagnose and resolve team dysfunctions, facilitate high-impact agile ceremonies, align work to business priorities, use metrics effectively, and engage leadership and stakeholders in meaningful ways.
Coaching Agile Teams: How to Improve Agile Team Performance
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Coaching Agile Teams: How to Improve Agile Team Performance
This course is part of Improving Team Performance Specialization
Instructor: Madecraft
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5 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
How to build a strong agile foundation that improves alignment, communication, and team performance.
How to identify and resolve team dysfunctions while turning agile ceremonies into value-driven practices.
How to align cross-team work to business priorities using metrics and value stream mapping.
Skills you'll gain
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Organizational Change
- Team Building
- Team Performance Management
- Process Analysis
- Business Priorities
- Change Management
- Process Mapping
- Performance Metric
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Leadership Development
- Agile Project Management
- Collaboration
- Teamwork
- Meeting Facilitation
- Agile Methodology
- Communication Strategies
- Process Improvement
- Sprint Retrospectives
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Assessments
6 assignments
Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
Change can create uncertainty, but when you lay the right foundation, you turn hesitation into alignment and momentum. In this module, you’ll learn how to communicate change clearly and articulate a compelling value proposition, so you can build trust, reduce resistance, and gain meaningful buy-in from the start.
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3 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt
Even the most talented teams can struggle with misalignment, unproductive meetings, and hidden dysfunctions that quietly drag down performance. In this module, you’ll learn how to strengthen team alignment, improve collaboration, and address dysfunction head-on, so your team can operate with clarity, accountability, and consistently high performance.
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As your organization grows, misalignment between teams can quietly stall progress, dilute impact, and create competing priorities. In this module, you’ll learn how to create alignment across teams and leadership, so you can turn scattered efforts into coordinated momentum that drives measurable business impact.
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When work moves slowly and dependencies pile up, it is often a sign that the system, not the people, needs attention. In this module, you’ll learn how to identify and map your high-level processes, measure efficiency, and design cross-functional value streams so you can remove bottlenecks, reduce delays, and help teams deliver value faster across the organization.
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5 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt
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