
creating agile organizations workshop
Creating agile organizations is hard work, requires patience, humour, and long-term commitment. It can take many years to discover how to make agility work in your organization. But once you have been through all that, you ought to be able to react more effectively to changing market conditions.

Workshop Overview
In this 3-day workshop, participants explore how to guide an Agile transformation and how to guide an Agile organization re-design, from product definition, structure, roles and responsibilities to people.
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.
The workshop, developed by Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavlichenko, is based on their book: Creating Agile Organizations, and uses a combination of instructor-led and activity-based learning where participants work in small groups. Participants leave this course with an appreciation for the agile mindset and how to deal with common adoption mistakes. They gain the knowledge and understanding about how to make informed decisions about their transformation that will be most beneficial to their organization.
Learning Objectives
Understand how to work with senior management in the transformation process.
Be able to design your organization for adaptability and highest value delivery..
Be ready to study system dynamics to define the products and prepare the organization for change.
Understand how to facilitate the impact on management, processes and structure of your organization.
Know how to launch and support the teams with practical coaching and facilitating techniques.
Workshop Agenda
Day 1 – Organization Design
Designing for Adaptability.
Flow Efficiency v.s. Resource Efficiency.
Organization Structure: How to structure the product group and surrounding organizational units.
Processes & Integration: How to Coordinate and integrate across units
People Practices
Day 2 – Preparing the Organization
Adoption Approach
Coaching for Change
Understanding Current Reality
Applying Systems Thinking to optimize for Adaptability
Defining Your Product
12 Organization Design Guides
Designing your Product Group
Day 3 – Launching a Product Group
Preparing the first iteration
Guiding Product Ownership
Team Lift offs
Guiding Teams.
Designing your Product Group
Certified – Creating Agile Organizations
All participants receive an Creating Agile Organzations certificate and get a copy of the book: Creating Agile Organizations.

who should attend
The Creating Agile Organization course is for people in manager roles, change leads, senior consultants, coaches and Scrum Masters that support a large-scale Agile transformation effort.


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