The Agile Transformation Coaching Workshop is a training program focusing on the factors/traits/skillsets necessary to accomplishing Enterprise-wide Agile Transformation. This is a highly interactive workshop that makes ample use of discussions and exercises to help participants learn the soft skills necessary to have a successful and sustainable agile transformation/transition. Participants will learn and refresh their knowledge of Agility, Culture, Structure, Leadership, Agile Mindset, Business/Enterprise Agility, Change Management and other necessary components to lead Agile Transformation within an organization.

The course focuses on four distinct aspects in an integral fashion: Leadership, Change Management, People, and Culture. These aspects equip agile transformation coaches and leaders to have smoother agile transformation. The training also focuses on enhancing a learner’s skill in servant leadership, organizational change, organizational health, people, transformation and agile enterprise.

Some of the elements that participants will learn during the workshop:

• How organizational culture, structure and dynamics impact agile transformation efforts and how an Agile Transformation Coach could adjust his/her strategy to achieve and sustain Enterprise Level Transformation.
• What the goals of an Agile Enterprise are and how to organize/transform to achieve Agility.
• How to successfully achieve Waterfall to Agile transformation at the Enterprise level.
• Examine what failures in Agile Transformation look like and how to overcome such failures.

Mastering agile transformation coaching skills will require both time and practice. This workshop will allow you to:

• Learn about transformation, agility, culture, structure and leadership and how it relates to successful agile transformation.
• Understand and utilize the key skill areas and knowledge areas applied by the best agile transformation coaches.
• Gain an understanding of organizational change, types of changes, resistance, and how to successfully achieve a higher degree of enterprise agility via agile transformation.
• Learn how to energize people and drive them towards agile transformation.
• Differentiate between agile adoption and agile transformation.
• Learn the Agile Transformation Approach through a step by step process.
• Learn what successful Enterprise Agile Transformation looks like.
• Identify challenges in Agile Transformation.
• Recognize the broader context of an organization to determine the best interventions and actions to create a positive impact.
• You’ll walk away from the course with your personal agile transformation coaching improvement backlog – a tangible plan you can use to thoughtfully improve your coaching when you’re back on the job.
• You’ll have many new things to try with your organization and you will probably depart with a few provocative ideas to chew on or to wrangle with for a while. All these outcomes add up to your ability to become the excellent agile transformation coach your organization need.

11. The Goals of Agile Enterprise
12. Organizing for Agility
13. Transforming for Agility
14. How to Energize People
15. Transformation Strategies
16. Agile Transformation Coach – Roles and Responsibilities
17. Agile Transformation Approach
18. Waterfall to Agile Transformation
19. Successful Enterprise Agile Transformation
20. Examining Failures of Agile Transformation
21. Challenges during Agile Transformation and how to overcome

1. Knowledge of Agile Manifesto and Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP) would be very helpful.
2. Interested to work in team environment with team members.
3. Willingness to learn and apply softskills to teams.
4. Curious, eager, patient, and calm.

This course is designed for:

• Project, Program, and Portfolio Professionals who aspire to take up the role of an Agile Transformation Coach or Enterprise Agile Transformation Leader.
• Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile Project/Program Managers or Iteration Managers who want a more comprehensive understanding of the complete range of enterprise agile transformation skills.
• Current Agile coaches who want to enhance and improve their professional skills to achieve career progression to Agile Transformation Coach/Leader.
• Coaches who wish to increase the ability to break through seemingly insurmountable problems with their organizational issues, changes, and resistance.
• Agile managers, Product Owners and others wishing to access a broader range of skills in working at organizational level.
• Agile Transformation Leaders, Change Agents, Agile Managers, Portfolio Managers, Agile Business Leaders, Process Improvement Professionals, and other Agilists wishing to learn/enhance their organizational capacity and leadership to support continuous and sustainable agile transformation.