Scaling Agility: Expanding Value

Scaling up value delivery is not simply adding more people and resources or picking the right framework. Jamming more work into even more teams is a recipe for stress, failure, and a collapse of value.

To succeed in scaling value delivery, you need to learn to balance increases in capacity while reducing complexity. By building on a foundation of value-driven principles and leveraging common patterns of success, you can navigate the challenges inherent in any kind of change.

Are you ready to transform your organization into a powerhouse that delivers sustainable value at scale? Together, we will learn to guide teams through the complexities of scaling, learn the common anti-patterns and pitfalls, learn how to avoid them, adapt to change effortlessly and achieve breakthrough results.

Ready to register? Use this link to enroll.

Learn how to practice Scaling, not simply “Be Scaled.”

Even before the workshop is over, you will have the skills to:

Explain how scaling enables better delivery of complex work and increases capacity.
Use principles, practices, and patterns to create sustainable frameworks.
Identify change management mistakes, challenges, and anti-patterns in scaling.
Demonstrate the advantages of iterative and incremental models with safe-to-fail experiments.
Analyze organizational structures to create a backlog of scaling challenges.

This is not a lecture-driven class. Instead, we build learning through interactive, hands-on learning and exercises that culminate in using the Gorilla Coach Scaling Canvas to create a scaling approach for organizational change.

It’s not theory. The Scaling Canvas will give you a plan to take back to your work the next day.

Workshop Hours

Each day is a four-hour session

Mon-Thur: 1 pm to 5 pm Pacific (4 pm to 8 pm Eastern)

All sessions include a 10-minute break every hour.

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You get more than a certification:

Certified Agile Scaling Practitioner (CASP ) certification from the Scrum Alliance.
Automatic renewal of all current Scrum Alliance certifications.
Two-year Scrum Alliance membership
16 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and Professional Development Units (PDUs).
Digital course workbook and classroom virtual scrapbook
The Gorilla Coach Scaling Canvas

Let's tackle the Gorilla in the room: scaling is about creating more value, not just getting bigger. Through this workshop, you'll develop practical approaches to spot and address the organizational challenges everyone sees and no one mentions. You'll gain hands-on experience building teams that have the agency to solve problems while staying aligned with your organization's goals. More than just learning about scaling, you'll create concrete strategies that help your organization evolve and adapt. When we're done, you'll be ready to guide your teams toward sustainable value delivery - even when that means challenging the status quo. And yes, sometimes that means acknowledging that adding more people isn't the answer to your scaling challenges.

Who Should Attend:

Are you facing the Gorilla in the room of scaling - where adding more teams seems to decrease value delivery instead of increasing it? Have you noticed that implementing a one-size-fits-all scaling framework hasn't solved your coordination challenges? Would you rather create an organization that scales naturally, where teams have the agency to deliver sustainable value while staying aligned with your company's vision?

Then this workshop is for you:

Leaders navigating the complexity of multi-team coordination (Directors, VPs, C-Suite)
Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters working across teams
Program and Portfolio Managers
Release Train Engineers and Program Increment Leaders
PMO Leads looking to evolve their organization
Business Analysts working with multiple teams
Technical Leaders, including Architects and Development Managers
Anyone responsible for helping organizations grow effectively

We focus on practical applications rather than theorycraft frameworks, helping you address real scaling challenges in your organization.

What students are saying about the Gorilla Coach:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Certified Agile Skills course taught by Joel was nothing short of inspirational. He walked us through moving the mindset of our orgs from the goal of becoming Scaled to the mindset of Scaling is a tool. Throughout the two days we broke off into groups to do activities and then came back together to talk about what we learned. There were numerous templates that supported our learning that I will use again in the future. At the end Joel brought it all together with his Scaling Canvas, which is a tool that I will use in the future. Overall, a great course, thanks Joel! - Fred Deichler

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Joel is extremely knowledgeable, explains the information well, can provide links to articles, books, websites on area you want to explore further. - Jane

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Joel Bancroft-Connors of The Gorilla Coach - the instructor's deep expertise and engaging teaching style made the sessions highly interactive and enjoyable. Real-world examples and hands-on exercises brought the theories to life, helping me see how to implement scaling in my organization effectively. - customer

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I very much enjoyed taking Joel's new Scaling Training. Joel is so experienced he brings a lot of great learning experience stories to his training, which I really appreciate. He also does a lot of hands-on exercises which allows you to try out his idea in real time. I have a ton of experience, and yet I still managed to learn so many new things in two days! His way of bringing things together really pulled my thinking together, which was awesome. I know I will be using his canvas over and over as a thinking tool as well as communicating with leaders. I give it a 5 out of 5. - Samantha Sieverling

Meet the Gorilla Coach, Joel Bancroft-Connors

Known as "The Gorilla Coach," Joel is a tech industry veteran passionate about driving success through Agile methodologies. With over three decades of experience and a track record of transforming organizations, Joel gives teams the agency to deliver exceptional results.

Join Joel Bancroft-Connors, The Gorilla Coach, to learn the essentials of excellent product ownership and take your skills to the next level. Discover how to leverage Scrum to drive better product decisions, deliver more customer value, and enable true business agility.

Register now and become the champion your organization needs to create sustainable value as the organization grows and changes. Unleash the power of scaling for unbeatable results!

Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Scaling Professional: Dec 15-18 (Half Day)