Certified Path to Agility® Practitioner Workshop - LIVE ONLINE

About Path to Agility

Organizations today are facing massive challenges when it comes to achieving agility. Path to Agility helps organizations focus on successfully achieving desired results when undergoing an Agile transformation.

Over 50% of Agile transformations fail to deliver on the benefits of Agile, costing companies millions of dollars, while increasing frustration and churn. Path to Agility is the solution to this growing problem.

About this virtual Workshop

This is a web-based, instructor-led workshop. Agile Velocity trainers have developed a virtual experience that provides effective learning and practical, hands-on activities, accommodating learners who either work from home or are part of a distributed team/organization. For optimal user experience, it is suggested that participants have a dual-monitor setup and the ability to enable video.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is for people who are leading change as part of an Agile transformation initiative within their organization. (e.g. Leaders, Scrum Masters, team coaches, internal coaches, members of an internal Agile transformation team, change agents, etc.)

Minimum Requirements

This is not an introductory course on Agile concepts, Agile frameworks, or Agile Scaling frameworks. Because of the advanced content in the Certified Path to Agility Practitioner workshop, participants should have some experience and/or training on foundational Agile concepts such as the Agile Manifesto, Agile Values and Principles, and implementation frameworks applicable to their organization (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, etc,).

While it is not required to have any specific certifications, such as CSM, CSPO, or PSM I, attending a foundational course and having some experience implementing Agile would be very beneficial for attendees to understand and apply the concepts as a Certified Path to Agility Practitioner.

What do I get?

Attendees who complete this workshop will receive:

• Certification as a Practitioner and license to use Path to Agility
• Path to Agility Card Deck *
• Path to Agility Playbook
• Path to Agility Practitioner Community Access
• Access to the team-level of Path to Agility Navigator

* All attendees will receive access to a virtual Path to Agility deck. Physical card decks will be shipped to attendees within the continental United States.

Can I just buy the Path to Agility deck of cards without the class?

Agile transformations are inherently complex change initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that you are empowered with not only the tools (e.g. the Path to Agility card deck), but also how to use the tools to enable you to have greater success in your transformation. Practitioner training and support are critical to effectively deploying Path to Agility. As we say, “Like Scrum, Path to Agility is easy to understand, but hard to master.”

Key Learning Outcomes

• Identify common challenges with Agile transformations and how Path to Agility addresses these challenges
• Explain the advantages of an outcomes-based transformation approach
• Explain the structure and benefits of Path to Agility
• Use Path to Agility to create a transformation backlog
• Apply Path to Agility to guide teams and organizations to be more predictable and reducing cycle time through common adoption patterns

Workshop Outline (subject to change)

• Agile transformation challenges and characteristics
• Top 10 reasons for Agile transformation failure
• How Path to Agility addresses common failures
• Introduction to Leading Change
• Core challenges with change
• Change leadership vs change management
• Path to Agility introduction
• How all the elements of Path to Agility (Stages, Levels, Outcomes, and Capabilities) relate to each other
• Hands-on activities using Path to Agility
• Transformation roadmaps and backlogs

Five Stages of Path to Agility

• The goals of each stage (Align, Learn, Predict, Adapt, Accelerate)
• The degree of “completeness” required for each stage
• How each stage relates to introducing change

Three Levels of Path to Agility

• Why Agile transformations require more than just enablement of individual teams or departments
• Definitions for each of the three levels (Team, System, Organization)
• How each of the levels work together to enable sustainable change
• Understanding of what levels are related to your organization

Nine Business Outcomes of Path to Agility

• Why Business Outcomes should drive Agile transformations
• Definitions for each of the Path to Agility Business Outcomes
• Relationship of Path to Agility Business Outcomes
• Understanding of which Path to Agility Business Outcomes may work best for your organization’s context

30+ Agile Outcomes of Path to Agility

• Awareness of the 30+ Agile Outcomes
• How Agile Outcomes are related to Business Outcomes
• Understanding how Agile Outcomes fit in each stage and level
• How Agile Outcomes are related in Path to Agility

100+ Agile Capabilities of Path to Agility

• Awareness of the 100+ Agile Capabilities
• Understanding how Agile Capabilities enable Agile Outcomes
• How Agile Capabilities inform a Transformation Backlog

Options for this workshop

If you would like to register multiple participants, or have a large group of people at your organization you would like to have participate in this training, we can offer a private workshop option. Contact us at - training@agilevelocity.com.

Founder and CEO of Agile Velocity, David Hawks is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer who is passionate about helping organizations achieve true agility beyond the basic implementation of Agile practices.

David’s primary focus is to guide leaders through their Agile transformation by helping to create successful transformation strategies and effectively manage organizational change with a focus on achieving real business results.

He received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

When not helping organizations build lasting success, he can be found swimming, running, biking, spending time with his wife and kids, or supporting his Texas Longhorns. David not only bleeds burnt orange but is known for a crazy, 18-hour tailgate experience, arriving at the lot first and leaving last.