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guiding agile organziations

This workshop offers practical tools for large-scale agile transformations.

Creating Agile Organizations (CAO) takes patience, humor, and commitment. Though it may take years, the process equips you to adapt efficiently to market changes.

GAO Workshop overview

Based on Creating Agile Organizations, this 3-day workshop combines instruction and activities to teach large-scale agile adoption, avoid pitfalls, and coach organizations. Learn to guide agile transformations and redesigns, covering product definition, structure, roles, and people practices.

In particular, we delve into ...

  • How to guide an organization re-design.
  • How to prepare your organization to successfully start your transformation.
  • How to successfully launch a group to work in the new organization design.
  • How to coach teams after group launch.
  • How to guide the product ownership at large scale.
Guiding Agile Organizations course

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explore how to facilitate workshops to support agile transformation.

Understand how to design an agile organization for adaptability and highest value delivery.

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Be ready to study system dynamics to define the products and prepare the organization for change.

Understand how to work with senior management in the transformation process.

Know how to launch and support the change with practical tools and techniques.

Workshop agenda

Who should attend?

The workshop is for change leads, coaches and scrum masters that want to learn practical tools and approaches to support a large-scale agile transformation effort.

Day 1: organization design

Designing for adaptability.

Aligning Organization Design with Your Strategic Focus.

Driving Organization Design with Capabilities.

Designing The Product or Service.

Reducing complexity  and Dependencies by Design

Day 2: preparing the organization

Designing Product Group & Surrounding units .

Applying Systems Thinking To Optimize For Effectiveness.

Understanding current reality.

Creating A Change Plan

12 organization design guides.

Day 3: launching a product group

Applying The Change Guides

Preparing the first change iteration

Team lift offs

Guiding teams

Coordination and integrate across units

Guiding product ownership

Certified – Guiding Agile Organizations

All participants receive an Guiding 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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How to create an agile organization?

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.

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