Agile Delivery at Scale | WashU TLCenter

Course summary:

This ICAgile certification course provides you with Portfolio Management and Program Management approaches to maximize the value produced by your products. The class will introduce the subject of scaling and will provide a high-level review of various approaches to scaling development within your organization. In large, complex organizations, traditional Agile practices such as Scrum do not work well with large, diverse, teams and products. This course will provide tools to your organization to maximize the value of its investments while supporting large products and teams.

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:

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

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

Day & Time:

Monday & Wednesday
March 31, 2025

5:00 to 7:30PM

Enrollment Deadline:

March 24, 2025

Location:

Zoom

Course Fee(s):

$1,495

CEUs:

1.8

Enrollment Deadline is March 24, 2025 at 5 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

Parking and refreshments are provided.

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.

Type:

Virtual

Day & Time:
Tuesday & Thursday

Sept 16, 2025

5:00 p.m. to 7:30PM