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Ready, set, liftoff! Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Learn new insights and techniques for starting projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. Real-life stories illustrate how others have effectively started (or restarted) their teams and projects. Master coaches Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies have successfully "lifted off" numerous agile projects worldwide. Are you ready for success?Every team needs a great start. If you're a business or product leader, team coach or agile practice lead, project or program manager, you'll gain strategic and tactical benefits from liftoffs.Discover new step-by-step instructions and techniques for boosting team performance in this second edition of Liftoft.
About the Author
Visionary pragmatist, Diana Larsen, wears many hats. To serve her professional communities, Diana delivers inspiring conference keynotes, talks, and workshops around the world. She shares the wisdom she's gained in more than three decades of working with leaders, teams, and organizations. A prolific contributor to readers who seek to improve leadership and team development, Diana co-authored pivotal books, including: Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams (2022) Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (first and second editions. 2006, 2022) Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams (second edition. 2016) Five Rules for Accelerated Learning (2014) The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile, an ebook. (2019) A model maker, she co-originated the Agile Fluency® model as well as several other models about aspects of leadership, learning, and teams. As a consultant, mentor, and coach of coaches, the continuing thread in her career has been a focus on team learning and leaders who "learn out loud" to support their teams and organizations. She co-founded and led FutureWorks Consulting and Agile Fluency Project. She serves as an advisor to Retrium, Inc. , and on the advisory board of the Organization Design Forum. Find out more about Diana's latest escapades at dianalarsen. com and agilefluency. org Find her on social media at Twitter @DianaOfPortland and LinkedIn.
