Designing agile organizations
Turn Strategy into Reliable Execution
In the DAO course, you’ll learn how to design and evolve the operating model required to:
- Reduce time from decision to execution with strategic alignment.
- Cut unnessecary costs and optimize assets with a tailored operating model.
- Create effective product groups driving innovation and financial results.
DAO course overview
This 2-day certified course offers design and thinking tools to create Agile organizations aligned with strategy.
Built on the principles in Creating Agile Organizations, this course provides a practical toolkit for designing organizations that deliver strategic outcomes. You’ll learn how to:
- align structure with strategic priorities,
- shape departments and teams for flow and accountability,
- reduce cross-unit dependencies,
- clarify leadership and management roles,
- and implement the coordination mechanisms and people practices that sustain agility at scale.
Who should attend?
Designed for senior leaders and managers across technology and the business, Designing Agile Organization equips you to improve organizational performance through better design. For maximum impact, we recommend leadership teams attend together to create shared alignment and accelerate execution.
Course learning objectives
Be able to design your organization for adaptability and highest value delivery.
Learn how to evolve a tailored organization design that reflects your organization’s unique dynamics and strategy.
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
Every participant receives a copy of Creating Agile Organizations, the full CAO Workshop Box with all course workshops and cards, and an official course certificate registration.
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.
Hear from those who’ve been there
Participants from companies like Volkswagen Digital Solutions, Thales, Rabobank, Malvern-Panalytical, KPN, ING, Zuehlke, Raiffeisenbank, Prowareness and more have attended…
It was an amazing workshop and a must for any person avid to foster and guide thoughtful, empirical, yet strategic change towards holistic, and systemic improvement in the organization!
Last week I spent interesting 2 days in a training on ‘Designing agile organizations’. It turns out there is no single approach or integrated framework to address this challenge. We all need to find the answers ourselves. But thanks to Cesario Ramos we have now a toolbox of proven methods and techniques to face the challenge! Great training!
Many thanks for the awesome training, Cesario!
Really enjoyed the Designing Agile Organizations course! Learning alongside such an insightful group truly enhanced the experience. The practical examples provided, also from Strobbo, added significant value. For me, this course complements the LeSS practitioner course I previously followed, broadening the scope from multi-team Scrum to full product groups and beyond. Let the experiments begin! Thank you Jurgen De Smet for an inspiring 2 days!
Register here for one of our workshops and trainings!
Can’t join in person?
We understand that travel or timing doesn’t always work out. If you’re interested in joining this course online, let us know — we’ll setup and schedule a live online session soon.
The CAO Workshop Box
The Real Work Begins After the Course.
Every participant of a Creating Agile Organizations course will now receive a full deck of our CAO Workshop Cards. These cards are designed to help you bring the course ideas into real conversations inside your organization.
They can be used for aligning strategy with structure, exploring adaptability costs, or making sense of design trade-offs. Think of them as tools for reflection, facilitation, and action.
Introduction to CAO
Watch the 3 min introduction by Cesario Ramos, CAO co-creator.
Looking for an in-company course?
We offer DAO and CAO courses in most parts of the world. Contact us without obligation if you would like to organise a professional workshop in your company, either in-person or online.