Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1®

Scaling agility may be the right way to meet your goals and this course is designed to help you decide if scaling is the best path forward. You’ll learn what scaling is and why it often fails, and you’ll gain an understanding of how scaling can fit into your organization.

Why Choose This Class?

Sticky Agile’s method for teaching scaling provides the participants with opportunities to increase their knowledge of scaling by defining scaling and why it’s being used in organizations across the globe to create new products, processes, or procedures. Through engaging activities, we’ll describe and assess patterns and anti-patterns often associated with scaling and compare case studies to identify pitfalls, best practices, and discover what would work best in your organization. We’ll explore the risks of a pre-configured approach vs a changing, evolving, and growing one and highlight the importance of proper change management work.

All of this is facilitated by Sticky Agile’s world-class trainers who use a variety of engaging hands-on activities and discussions where students explore concepts and illustrate their understanding. Students come away with an understanding of scaling, the approach that might best fit their organization’s needs, the risks and impediments to look out for, and a personal action plan for their organization.

What will I learn in this class?

·What scaling is and how it is used in organizations to achieve better results.

·How scaling in an agile way is important for success.

·What the future state of your organization might look like from both a high-level vision and goals perspective.

·Understand how scaling an agile approach can make improvements in flow, visibility, communication, and relationships, which enables better delivery of work that may be too complex for one team.

·The idea of Scaling vs Scaled and how an agile organization will also descale.

·Understand how principle-led, practice-led, and pattern-led approaches can impact your success.

·Know how a pre-configured, static, scaled approach will produce different results from one that is a changing, evolving, and growing one.

·Understanding systems such as defining work as simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic can aid in an understanding of when to scale and the risks associated with it.

·Recognize there are no universally applicable approaches, but there is a range of context-sensitive practices/approaches to scaling.

· Determine how to prepare for scaling in your agile organization by analyzing pre-conditions, looking for patterns, identifying risks, and predicting challenges.

·Identifying change management needs and understanding how to meet them.

·Understanding support scaffolds to aid in creating a safer space for change (departments, training programs, values, coaching, metrics, etc.)

·Create a backlog of scaling challenges to address and ideas to enact upon.