Designing agile organziations

This course offers design tools to evolve your operating model!

High-performing organizations go beyond rigid Agile frameworks. While frameworks provide structure, true success comes from designing an operating model that aligns with strategy.

Master the art of organizational design for effective strategy execution—enroll in the DAO course today.

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Course agenda

DAO Course overview

This 2-day certified course offers design and thinking tools to create Agile organizations aligned with strategy.

Based on the book Creating Agile Organizations, this course covers tools to design Agile organizations. Topics include structuring teams and product groups, decoupling dependencies, designing management roles, coordination processes, and people practices.

Who should attend?

The Designing Agile Organization course is for leaders and tech/business reps driving agile improvements. Teams are encouraged to attend together.

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COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Be able to design your organization for adaptability and highest value delivery.

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Learn how to evolve a tailored organization design that reflects your organization’s unique dynamics and strategy.

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Understand the systemic approach to improving the performance of your organization.

Course agenda

Day 1: Design For Strategic Alignment

What is an agile organization?

Overview of the CAO approach.

Aligning Organization Design with Your Strategic Focus.

Driving Organization Design with Capabilities

Systems Thinking for designing an agile organization.

Designing The Product or Service

Designing The Product Group

Eliminating Team Dependencies by Design

Day 2: Design For Global Improvement

Designing The Larger Organization

Decoupling Departments, Shared Services & Product Groups

Designing Product Management & Line Managment.

The Agile Organization design guides.

Processes & integration: how to coordinate and integrate across units.

People practices.

Working with Large Platform groups

Extensive Q&A

Certified - Designing Agile Organizations

All participants receive an Creating Agile Organizations certificate and get a copy of book: Creating Agile Organizations.

Locations

We provide courses all over the world. Find one that fits your agenda, or contact us for an in-house course for your team.

Training and certifications in Russia are not possible. Our hearts go out to all those affected by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We are deeply troubled by the violence and its impact on innocent people.

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Participants learn to design agile organizations, covering product definition, structure, roles, and appraisal systems, and make informed decisions for impactful improvements.

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Introduction to the CAO

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