Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1

Evolve Agility’s Scaling Agile workshop is an experiential deep dive to unravel patterns, practices, and frameworks for large-scale products and projects. This workshop equips you with the foundational toolkit to growing (scaling) a learning organization for knowledge workers.

Be prepared to walk away with an actionable action plan to safely revive your organization’s ability to grow real-world agility at scale.

Complexity and Systems Thinking

This is the only agile scaling course that coherently integrates complexity and systems thinking tool sets in its curriculum. You will develop the skills to effectively lead and navigate the organizational dynamics at play with large-scale efforts. Interactive activities enable you to incorporate your organization’s challenges in the workshop so you can work through some of the most challenging topics, get expert-level guidance, and own your insights.

Are you a knowledge worker?

Agile is best suited to knowledge work. Scaling agile is about amplifying the ability of the organization to learn and adapt faster. Our range of curricula is designed to help you progressively enhance your understanding to enable Learning Organizations. This course explores the dynamics of product discovery, development, and supporting organizational sub-systems required to enable success at scale.

Learn together, Grow together.

We recommend management teams join this course together so you can explore your organization’s scaling challenges and use the complexity and systems thinking techniques to strategize on the way forward. You will develop your organizational journey path to safely unwind from previously failed scaled efforts and start anew with a refined understanding of successful patterns and practices for scaling agile. Be prepared to walk away with an actionable plan of action.

Our curriculum will enable you to

• Identify common barriers and traps that prevent your organization from learning.
• Manage risk and uncertainty with scaling agile.
• Design organization systems linkages to incrementally develop large products
• Examine Product-led vs. Revenue-led, and IT as cost-center vs. IT as value-center organization design choices.
• Design organizations for scaling agile using industry case-scenarios
• Evaluate scaling patterns, practices, frameworks, and methodologies for effectiveness
• Lead large-scale project and product development efforts
• Practically and incrementally move away from Silo-ed work and an “us-vs-them” culture that promotes bureaucratic bloating.
• Explore trials (experiments) and trails (journeys) that fit your organizational circumstances.
• Assess your organizational coherence and discover misalignment in organizational sub-systems.

Course Curriculum

What is Scaling?

Develop an understanding of risks and challenges with large-scale projects and product development efforts. Why have so many methodology-led ”scaled” efforts routinely failed to deliver on their promises? And what you can do to descale from bureaucratic bloat and rebuild to learn at scale.

1. Scaling Knowledge Work
2. What is your Lego?
3. Risk and Uncertainty
4. Constraints and Couplings

Scaling Successfully and Sustainably

Develop first principles understanding of why agile works and what can be done to grow the organizational capability to develop products at scale reliably. You will learn of fundamental patterns and practices to build customer-centric products and how leaders shape organization systems to grow sustainably.

1. Generative vs. Prescriptive
2. Build Integrity In
3. What is your product?
4. Culture follows structure
5. Growing Sustainably

Who Should Attend

For knowledge workers who value learning and first principles thinking. Participants will develop scaling agile skills for growing Learning Organizations that can inspect and adapt through complexity and uncertainty.

This workshop is designed for agile leaders, managers, and practitioners with a foundation understanding of single-team agile. We cover advanced topics to guide the next steps in your journey to scaling for agility. Participants come from diverse backgrounds in industry and have diverse life experiences. Typically,

• Executive, Directors, and Senior Management
• Chief Product Owner, Product Managers, Product Owner
• Architects, Functional and Technical Managers
• Practice leaders, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master

Registration policies

Transfers

You can transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.

Refunds

• Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund.
• Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course, date receive a 70% refund.

No show policy

Your fees will forfeit in case of a no-show.