Boost agile capacity and capability at any organization with a smart approach to scaling agile ways of working. This certification course is tailored to organizational leaders, managers, and anyone wanting to ramp up the results of their organization's agile investment. You'll learn from the brightest minds in agility and receive a two-year membership to Scrum Alliance upon successful completion.
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:
4h Sessions
3 Mar: 10a - 2p CT / 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
4 Mar: 10a - 2p CT / 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
5 Mar: 10a - 2p CT / 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
6 Mar: 10a - 2p CT / 8a - Noon PT / 11a - 3p ET
All sessions include breaks of about 10 minutes each hour. Whole day sessions also include a mid-class break of about 45 minutes.
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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Agile Scaling Practitioner - 1 certification. It lays the foundation for Agility to spread across your business. You’ll get:
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 describe Agile at Scale and a case for pursuing it, you will design an approach to enable your organization to increase sustainable value delivery without necessarily adding more people. You'll have tools to create a culture of collaboration, and techniques to harness aligned autonomy across your teams. You'll be ready to be a catalyst for change, applying these concepts so your teams and programs become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.
Here's what students say about these online workshops:
"Bernie made this class fun and entertaining. The class flew by everyday. In my situation, I came from an HR background and ZERO scrum experience. Bernie was excellent about relating the class to me in ways that I would better understand what he was teaching." -- Cara Consadine
"This class is worth EVERY PENNY! Bernie is a great instructor that keeps the class entertaining but also provides useful application for real world scenarios." -- Jascelyn Gause
"Multi hour sessions are undeniably daunting, but within the first 15 minutes I was interacting, laughing, and learning. ... I can feel myself using some of the techniques of your flavorful delivery with my team already - and it's making a difference." -- Craig Cochran
"If you're taking this course, "you're in the right place"... Thank you for providing a safe environment to learn new skills. It's crazy how a good teacher can help you learn new things without making it feel like a chore. Take this course, you won't be disappointed." -- Christina Monti
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:
Bernie's career started with a flash and a bang. Literally. His first position was designing devices that protect telephone networks from lightning strikes. A few career pivots later, he had a flash of insight: it was possible to tap into latent potential in every person, every team, and every organization.
The teams he’s worked with have grown businesses to beyond $100 million, delivering products from consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments at firms including TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. He consults and teaches workshops including Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies.
As an Agile Leadership Coach, Bernie helps clients achieve performance breakthroughs with their teams, their organizations and themselves. More, he believes that Accelerating Genius℠ is possible in every person and business, and leads both to outrageous effectiveness, and a whole lot more fun.
Anil Jaising
Anil's been tinkering with code, infrastructure and product development from the beginning of his career with expertise in both financial services and startups.
In the early 1990s he worked to develop a product that distributed messages worldwide within 3 seconds. He's led cloud transformation programs across 250 application teams for one of the world's largest banks. With his deep experience in Agile, DevOps and leadership, he's helped to guide multiple organizations to achievements in market focus, productivity and quality gains.
Anil has a deep interest in instructional design. In addition to his CST® credential, he's also a certified Training from the BACK of the Room trainer. He teaches in the graduate program at New York University and is well regarded as an Agile, Executive and Technical Coach.
The Fine Print
FAQ
How soon can I get my CASP-1 certification? At the end of the 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. There you'll accept your license agreement with Scrum Alliance and activate your new certification
Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified? No. Currently the only requirement to earn the CASP-1 is the successful completion of the full course, including exercises.
Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. Because Scrum Alliance requires 14 hours of instruction, 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.
Can I Make Up Missed Material by Attending Part of Another Workshop? No. Amongst other factors, each class moves through the material at different paces. This means it's unreliable to predict a clear window where a set of previously missed LOs will be covered. There are further complicating factors in partial attendance. For the smoothest experience for all, you're welcome to make up missed material by attending a future workshop in full at no charge.
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 [email protected].
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:
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Tue Dec 03 - 06, 2024
10:00 CST