Guiding agile organizations
This hands-on 3-day workshop gives you the tools and coaching skills to lead Agile transformations with confidence.
You’ll gain practical techniques for guiding an agile organization design. effort. Learn how to guide leadership, products group, org structure, processes, and people & rewards improvements so your organization can deliver on strategy and adapt at every level.
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.
Learning objectives
Explore how to facilitate workshops to support agile transformation.
Understand how to design an agile 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 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.
Workig with Management.
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.
This 3-day workshop equips you with tools and coaching skills to lead Agile transformations — across product, structure, processes, and 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!
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.
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.
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.
Introduction to CAO
Watch the 3 min introduction by Cesario Ramos, CAO co-creator.