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Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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$175.00
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
After completing this course you will be an informed agent poised to take strategic actions in your organization (such as immediate workflow improvements, new quality control measures, or even identifying further coursework and certification programs) in order to fully realize recognized benefits of agile practices: improved quality, morale, efficiency and teamwork. This course is introductory and its aim is to equip students with the vocabulary and context necessary to pursue further education.
Technology is blossoming in Libraries, Archives and Museums and with it emerges a new workforce with a decidedly more collaborative approach to getting work done. On the way out are the top-down, command-and-control, and delegation-oriented administrations and on the rise are new management practices, such as the Agile management principles, which portend to be a better fit for the modern library operations portfolio – and, most importantly, for the critical mass of people and projects working in support of a technologically-evolved mission. This course will examine how new management practices arising out of the software development and technology sector are being adopted in cultural heritage organization such as Libraries, Archives, and Museums.
Whether it’s understanding the community contribution and technologic governance models of open source projects or how incremental improvement keeps customers happy this course will identify, name, and observe emerging practices that are influencing library operations. After completing this course you will be an informed agent poised to take strategic actions in your organization (such as immediate workflow improvements, new quality control measures, or even identifying further coursework and certification programs) in order to fully realize recognized benefits of agile practices: improved quality, morale, efficiency and teamwork. This course is introductory and its aim is to equip students with the vocabulary and context necessary to pursue further education.
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Aaron Collie is the manager of FRASER®, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified Scrum @ Scale Practitioner and has over 10 years of experience working on free and open source software development projects within library and information centers. Recently, Aaron is engaged with teaching, writing and consulting on topics of data curation and agile workforce development in information-intensive professions. He received his M.S in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2010 with a specialization in the Data Curation Education Program.
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