Washington University in St. Louis
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AGI541: Delivery at Scale (18 hrs)

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.

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