Agile Delivery at Scale | WashU TLCenter

Course summary:

This ICAgile certified Delivery at Scale for Agile course is designed to help organizations maximize the value produced by their products. You'll learn Portfolio and Program Management approaches that enable you to manage large, complex products and teams effectively.

The course provides a high-level review of various approaches to scaling development within your organization. You'll learn how traditional Agile practices such as Scrum may not work well with large, diverse teams and products, and how to overcome these challenges.

With this course, you'll gain tools to maximize the value of your organization's investments while supporting large products and teams. Whether you're an Agile practitioner, project manager, or Expert team leader, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to deliver products at scale. Enroll today and become an ICAgile Certified Professional in Delivery at Scale for Agile!

Course outline:

Optimize the system

Complexity as enemy number one
Making sense of complex environments
Visualizing flow through the system
System Constraints

Agile at Scale

Frameworks for scaling agility
Build your own framework

Structure the organization for effective outcomes

Organizational maturity
Small world network vs. hierarchy
Organize around value stream
Transitioning functional managers to other roles
Importance of transparency

Culture, Alignment, and Tradeoffs

Why focus on culture
Habits of an Agile culture
Culture of optimizing for the whole
The case for alignment
Ways to foster alignment
Making tradeoffs

Communicating value and progress

Tracking and measuring value at scale
Ordering work items economically
Examples of large-scale metrics
Sustaining continuous improvement

Learning outcomes:

Evaluate a case study or real-world scenario to identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness.
Define the characteristics of good agile governance and make recommendations around governance approaches.
Explain the implications of scaling in an organizational context and recommend a scaling approach.
Explain how networked teams can have transparency and organization. Explain how people have the information to create their own empowerment.
Recommend organizational changes.
Describe how to transition from an underpowered to an empowered culture.
Explain the key techniques to drive delivery alignment and apply them.
Explain the importance of value modeling to drive improved customer outcomes. Describe how to communicate value smoothly across the organization.

Type:

Virtual Classroom

Day & Time:

Monday & Wednesday

May 1, 2024 to May 20, 2024

5:00PM to 7:30PM

Enrollment Deadline:

Apr 24, 2024

Location:

Zoom

Course Fee(s):

$1,495.00

CEUs:

2.1

Enrollment Deadline is Wednesday April 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge.

A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class. Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.