Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1 (CAS-S1) Workshop

Scaling Agile: Aligning Autonomy

Improving the value delivered through a large organization isn’t just about following a framework. And cramming through twice the work in half the time just adds stress everywhere.

For success with Agile at scale, it's about increasing capacity while tempering complexity. It’s about discerning patterns and principles that fit your unique situation. It’s about embedding new practices and support structures that guide proven change management ideas. And leading the change through iterative and incremental delivery, enabling you to grow new capabilities while sustaining your business.

If you’re ready to harness the power of aligned autonomy to positively impact business outcomes, this course is for you. Together we’ll uncover common pitfalls with scaling Agile and explore alternatives. You’ll learn how to attune scaling to your business strategy. And you’ll see how it’s possible to lead effective multi-team product development to grow clear, sustainable capabilities.

Learn and Apply the Ins and Outs of Successfully Scaling Agile

By the end of the workshop, you’ll be prepared to:

• Recognize both the challenges and opportunities of Agile at scale
• Analyze pre-conditions to catalyze scaling that liberate capacity and increase value delivery
• Define a clear strategy and vision for Product-led vs Revenue-led organizations
• Identify transitional structures to make scaling Agility safer for your own business & participants
• Enable your organization to increase capacity and capability to sustainably deliver value

Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no Powerpoint snoozefest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice. You'll find the engaging and impactful sessions turn complex topics into easy to understand concepts and techniques.

And it isn't all theory. Under your trainers' guidance, you'll apply what you've learned to address the challenges you could face with scaling Agile in your own organization.

Workshop Hours:

4 h Sessions:

• 10 June: 6 pm -10 pm ET 3pm - 7:00pm PT
  
• 11 June: 6 pm - 10:00pm ET / 3 pm - 7:00pm PT
  
• 12 June: 6 pm - 10:00pm ET / 3 pm - 7:00p PT
  

• 13 June: 6 pm - 10:00pm ET / 3 pm - 7:00p PT

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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Agile Scaling CAS-S1® certification, along with stories, tips, tricks, practices and 1-1 coaching to enable you to scale your products to increase profitability. It lays the foundation for Business Agility using the principles, practices, and frameworks of Scaling Agile

• certification fees included
• a digital workbook and scrapbook of all class exercises
• access to a private community of your peers for perspective when challenges arise
• complimentary 1:1 personal coaching with your instructor
• stories, tips, tricks and practices to scale your organization so it can thrive in change, profitably.

Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this short tip to help delivery effectiveness:

By the conclusion of this dynamic workshop - you will be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and experience to not only explain Scaling Agile to colleagues, clients or interviewers, but enable your organization to increase its capacity and capability without necessarily adding more people. You will be able to create a culture of collaboration, aligning teams on shared objectives and outcomes, minimizing handoffs and dependencies between teams, and employing different methods for breaking down complex problems into smaller pieces that can be tackled by several teams simultaneously. You will be able to execute on multi-team, multi-site, product development. Become a catalyst for change by helping your teams and programs apply these concepts to become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.

Here's what students say about these online workshops:

"Thanks to Anil Jaising, CST® for your guidance and support during this certification process. I highly recommend this course- if you have any questions regarding the certification please feel free to reach out.!" -- Star McKenzie

"Anil Jaising, CST®- I couldn’t have done it without your patience, guidance, and motivation. Thank you for pushing me through that last lap around the track - it was tough, but so worth it. 🙌The best things about these courses and certifications are that they have been able to support me with real-on-the-job challenges in real time - so I’ve been able to apply the things that I’m learning and see the impact as we’ve implemented scrum across our marketing org at Lumen Technologies. Just wanted to say ‘thanks’ again to you, 🖖🏼 Bernie Maloney, CST, and all the folks that I had the privilege to learn with and from through these certification courses.." -- Lo Bishop

"Anil was a fantastic, engaging, and knowledgeable instructor. He kept us in the loop the whole way, explained things in easy to understand chunks, and answered all of our questions thoroughly. He really went above and beyond to make the class fun." -- Carlie Kruelle

"Anil Jaising is an excellent teacher! This class was very helpful for me as I transition from project to product management.." -- Denise DeArmond

Even more students share about these workshops at this link.

Get your CAS-S1 and More!

This workshop includes:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1 certification fee
• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community
• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs
• 16 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

Who Should Attend

Have you struggled with getting the benefits of Agile beyond a team or two? Is strategically important work overwhelming your organization’s capacity like nearly 80% of those researched by the Business Agility Institute? Is collaboration stalled with nothing being done about it like 60% of those same organizations? Is complexity overwhelming Agile’s promised benefits, risking taking your business off the rails?

Then this course is for you.

While there are no prerequisites, this workshop is designed for leaders, managers and practitioners with a foundational grasp of single team Agile. We’ll cover advanced topics in multi-team Agile, as well as organizational change management and design. Participants will build skills to grow learning organizations that handle complexity and can thrive in change.

As participants come from diverse industries, they often learn from each other’s experiences, contexts and perspectives. Typical participant roles span:

• Executives, Directors and Senior Management
• Chief Product Owner, Product Managers, Product Owners
• Architects, along with Functional and Technical Managers
• Program or Project Managers and Release Train Engineers
• Practice leads, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters

If you’re ready to realize the benefits of Agile across your organization, you’re in the right place.

Meet your Instructor:

Anil Jaising

Anil’s career had an explosive start in the early 1990s, he worked on a messaging product that sent messages across the world in 3 seconds with a team that aligned with the Values and Principles of Agile. The product won the best Open Systems Award in 1994. From the beginning of his career, he has been tinkering with code, infrastructure, product development, and consulting in various industries.

His deep expertise in financial services and startups in developing business models has resulted in multiplying revenue and avoiding risk. He recently led a cloud transformation program for 250 application teams that saved one of the world’s largest bank over $25 million. His deep Agile, DevOps, and leadership experience have guided multiple organizations to achieve high throughput, market focus, productivity, and quality in building products. He has a deep interest in instructional design and is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room Trainer.

He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance and a Certified DevOps Trainer with DevOps Institute. Anil is also adjunct faculty teaching “transforming organizations” in the project management graduate program at New York University. Anil is well regarded in the industry as an Agile, Executive, and Technical Coach. He has helped several organizations successfully implement continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and SRE practices. He is currently guiding the product marketing and development of a telemetry dashboard for Atlassian products.

Meet your Instructor:

Bernie Maloney is an international trainer, coach and speaker who’s helped grow businesses from breakeven to beyond $100 million. The teams he’s worked with have delivered products ranging from award winning consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments. He’s worked with firms including Bell Labs, HP, TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. In addition to his client work, he teaches Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies.

Bernie’s one of only a few hundred people worldwide who is a Certified Scrum Trainer® with the Scrum Alliance, the most widely recognized and largest credentialing body in Agile. He helps clients to accelerating the genius in their leaders, teams and organizations, so they experience not only greater success, but also a whole lot more fun.

Get your CAS-S1 and More!

This workshop includes:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1 certification fee
• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community
• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs
• 16 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

Who Should Attend

Have you struggled with getting the benefits of Agile beyond a team or two? Is strategically important work overwhelming your organization’s capacity like nearly 80% of those researched by the Business Agility Institute? Is collaboration stalled with nothing being done about it like 60% of those same organizations? Is complexity overwhelming Agile’s promised benefits, risking taking your business off the rails?

Then this course is for you.

While there are no prerequisites, this workshop is designed for leaders, managers and practitioners with a foundational grasp of single team Agile. We’ll cover advanced topics in multi-team Agile, as well as organizational change management and design. Participants will build skills to grow learning organizations that handle complexity and can thrive in change.

As participants come from diverse industries, they often learn from each other’s experiences, contexts and perspectives. Typical participant roles span:

• Executives, Directors and Senior Management
• Chief Product Owner, Product Managers, Product Owners
• Architects, along with Functional and Technical Managers
• Program or Project Managers and Release Train Engineers
• Practice leads, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters

If you’re ready to realize the benefits of Agile across your organization, you’re in the right place.

The Fine Print

FAQ

How soon can I get my CAS-1® certification? On completing your participation in the full workshop, we will let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to setup your profile on the Scrum Alliance website and then you'll be a Bonafide, official CAS-1®!

Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified as a CAS-1®? No. Currently the only requirement to become a CAS-1® is the successful completion of the course. The Scrum Alliance is hard at work to develop an online exam for the CAS-1®. So, if you love taking tests, wait a bit to enroll in a CAS-1® workshop. Otherwise - get it now with us!

Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. If you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, and you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop. Don't worry - if something big comes up, we'll move you to a future workshop at no cost.

What do I need to bring to class? You'll need a computer with microphone, camera & speakers. Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection. After the download numbers stop, use the "more" option to calculate your upload speed. You'll need 5 down / 1 up - and more is better. Now, while in class, you'll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunchtime.

Cancellation Policy

We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. Please request changes by emailing info@conceptsandbeyond.com

Questions?

Drop us an email at: info@conceptsandbeyond.com