AGENDA WORKSHOP
DETAILED CONTENT March 24 2021
THE AGENDA
One of the working agreements is we must have an Agenda, so everybody knows or imagine what we will do during the training session.
The session will last 3 hours with 10ยด break. The workshop runs in a combination of Main Rooms and Breakout Rooms. We use the ZOOM and MIRO board. We assume that all teachers know how to use ZOOM and Miro boards since they will be the host of the lessons All cameras ON, audio quality tested, all partners in the computer, no tablets or phones and one person one computer. Please be sure all these technicalities are in place they are essential.
Detailed activities
1.Check-in and Warm-up
2.Working Agreement
3.Definition of Done +Requirement +Rubric
4.Beliefs sum up
5. My values your Values
6.The teacher's lesson round one
7.The teachers' lesson round two
The teachers' Lesson
Here is a good question placed by the Italian team
Do we suppose to use the MIRO board to structure the Lesson, or is it something we will do later on?
Keep us in a permanent questioning state is a healthy thing since we are innovating, and indeed, different teachers and teaching subjects will answer this question differently.
One of the key points of Agile is self empower so it teacher can organize their Lesson as they like. However, I would say different ways represents what in design thinking is named as "diverging."
We need to converge to a standard way because we have the training and the certification based on a common approach.
So here is what I question myself:
1.Is it a new theme of the Lesson that students have no previous knowledge of the subject?
2.Is it a continuation of an earlier lesson?
I think in both cases, there is no much difference in how we approach the Agile transformation.
We need to develop a standard structure, so I suggest this one as a starting point, then we refine it.
1.Define the Lesson Goals what the student supposed to learn. The Lesson is equivalent to the Product Vision. It means what the client wants to have. It means what the teacher wants the student to learn.
2. The teacher could create the Backlog with all the tasks, or the teacher could ask the students to develop the Backlog tasks if she thinks they have the capabilities. In any case, I think it is a good idea for developing critical thinking and a sense of belonging students make a try.
You may remember the Beliefs exercise you got the central beliefs and added on top, but we still need to play the next steps.
3.Once the Backlog is created, students can prioritize the Backlog and define the tasks. The teacher has to agree on the tasks and the prioritization.
4.Students create the Sprint and organize the team and select the tasks they think they can implement.
I propose we include it in the Agenda of this exercise.
So answering the Italian question:
1.Teachers prepare before the meeting the Lesson on the MIRO board by defining the theme and goals. We need two Lessons /boards per country; any subject is valid. It is fantastic if teachers identify cross-cooperation, among other Lessons content, e.g. Mathematics and history. Geography and Art. The teacher creates the MIRO board layout.
VERY IMPORTANT Teachers deliver the MIRO BOARD LINK at least three days before the workshop, so everybody is aware of what lessons will be transformed in Agile.
2. We breakout rooms, and teachers create Backlog tasks.
3. Back in the main room, we get insights, and we do a second round of breakrooms to refine and prioritize the Backlog.
4.Next step is we create the first SPRINT and deliver a Minimum Value Result.
5.We got back into the main room, and we make a joint retrospective and get back to breakrooms for more another refinement.
6.Be aware all Agile activities are time-boxed, so we play against the clock.
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