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Training Class Day 1: Monday, 06 October 2025
Training Class Day 2: Tuesday, 07 October 2025
Training Class Day 3: Wednesday, 08 October 2025
Training Class Day 4: Thursday, 09 October 2025

TIME: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (main session) and 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (intersession for participants) Eastern Standard Time

4 days * 4 hours per day from 1pm-5pm EST

Class Description

How can we begin our Agile transformation? Where should we get started? How many Agile systems do we need and at which levels? Which stakeholders should be involved and how frequently? Where are the critical fault lines where we can introduce a small change with outsized impact? How big is the problem, anyway? How can we get our arms around the situation and see where the opportunity zones and danger zones are? What is the smallest set of changes we can make that can move the needle for the entire organization? Could we achieve a measurable and meaningful business outcome by making relatively few moves?

Welcome to Flight Levels System Architecture! In this class we will learn how to model your entire organization as an interconnected system of systems. In true Agile fashion, we will learn how to create a “good enough” model in a fraction of the time and leverage it to guide our efforts. While a Kanban board tracks the flow of valuable work between activities in a work system, the flight levels topology tracks the interactions between work systems within an organization. Just as a Kanban system evolves over time, the work systems topology evolves as we consolidate levels, split out others, and “light up” new areas of the organization. Creating a taxonomy that works well combines multiple skills and disciplines such as value stream identification, service discovery, change management, operating rhythm design, and lean portfolio design.

Many organizations seek to make dramatic improvements in their customer responsiveness, their ability to bring new products to market quickly, and to respond rapidly to competitive threats and new opportunities. The problem? Installing Agility only at the operational team level is not sufficient. Instead, we need to apply Agility at the team level, coordination level and the strategy level in order to prevent local optimizations, bottlenecks, and misalignment. Designing and managing systems at all three levels is what the flight levels thinking model is all about. The flight levels system architecture helps us put it all together and figure out which systems at which levels are needed and how they can fit together.

Business Agility involves the entire organization. However, most agile implementations focus on only team-level agility. Flight Levels take agility beyond the team beyond the portfolio and into strategy. Flight Levels Systems Architecture will help you:

Establish business agility beyond team boundaries
See how your organization's strategy is progressing
Know why any piece of work is important to your organization's strategy
Operationalize business strategy.
Effectively manage dependencies between teams and services/products
Know whether your organization has the capacity to start a piece of work

Why Take This Class?

Flight Levels is an exciting new Agile framework that is elegantly simple, yet comprehensive enough to address the entire enterprise. Using the flight levels framework, organizations can reduce their time to market, identify and capitalize on new business opportunities, understand their capacity to take on new work, measure the possible impact of new initiatives, and identify the places where adding new resources will give them the highest leverage.

How can it do all this? By helping us visualize the way work flows throughout the enterprise using three lenses. The flight level model recognizes that we need three “viewpoints” for managing our work:

Flight level three, or the strategy level,
Flight level two, or the coordination level, and
Flight level one, or the team level

Target Audience

This is intermediate-level training aimed at those working in the following roles:

Leadership
Middle and Senior Managers
Transformation Leaders
Enterprise Agile Coaches
Organizational Designers
Agile team-level coaches and trainers

Prerequisites

Successful Completion of Flight Levels Introduction (FLIN) e-learning course.
Experience of agile working methods (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, etc) and modern management systems.

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Certification

FLSA: Powering Agile Transformations with Enterprise Kanban -Oct 6-9, 2025