Creating Agile Organizations

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.

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

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May 2023

ONLINE – Creating Agile Organizations Workshop

01 May 2023
€2095 – €2495

With Cesario Ramos. In this 4-day ONLINE course, we start all days at 12:30 and end around 18:00 Amsterdam Time. Participants explore how to guide …

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Jun 2023

Creating Agile Organizations

06 June 2023
Amsterdam, Amsteldijk 223,
Amsterdam, 1079 LK Netherlands
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€2095

In this 3-day course, participants explore how to guide an Agile transformation and how it affects the organization design, from product definition, team composition, roles …

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Oct 2023

Creating Agile Organizations Workshop

09 October 2023
Amstel Boat House, Amsteldijk 223
Amsterdam, 1079 LK Netherlands
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€2495

With Cesario Ramos. In this 3-day course, participants explore how to guide an Agile transformation and how it affects the organization design, from product definition, …

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Nov 2023

Creating Agile Organizations Workshop

21 November 2023
Carlton Hotel, Floraweg 25
Utrecht, 3542 DX Netherlands
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€2495

With Cesario Ramos. In this 3-day course, participants explore how to guide an Agile transformation and how it affects the organization design, from product definition, …

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