Category
CSU Courses
Delivery
Live Online
Master’s Eligible
Yes
One-of-a-kind training focusing on “being agile” and “doing agile” of Agile Coaching
Highly interactive training program that makes ample use of discussions, group activities, and real-life scenarios and challenges to enhance participants’ learning experience
Guiding teams and organizations to simplify their agile journey and achieve true agility
- Learn as to how business agility, portfolio agility and delivery agility can compliment each other and be integral part of achieving higher degree of enterprise agility.
Training Includes:
Trainer led Remote Live Online Training Class
Training material
Tips for successful Agile Career / Business
- Chicago State University (CSU) Certification
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- PMI: 15 PDUs
- Scrum Alliance: 15 SEUs
IIBA: 15 CDUs
NASBA: 16 CPEs
About Training
The Enterprise Agility Coaching Workshop is a training program that is unique and one-of-a-kind training that focuses on both the areas of “being agile” and “doing agile”. This is a highly interactive workshop that makes ample use of discussions and exercises to help participants learn soft skills necessary to have a successful and sustainable agile transformation/transition. You will learn and refresh your knowledge in terms of agile practices/principles, lean thinking, system thinking, culture, structure and other necessary components to lead enterprise/business agility within organization.
The course focuses on four distinct aspects in an integral fashion: Leadership, Practices, Systems, and Culture to equip enterprise agility coaches and leaders to have smoother agile transformation. The training focuses on enhancing learner’s skill in servant leadership, organizational change, lean thinking and professional coaching.
Some of the elements that participants will learn during the workshop:
- How organizational culture, structure and dynamics impacts agile transformation efforts and how Enterprise Agility Coach could adjust his/her strategy to achieve both team level and enterprise/business agility.
- Improve the ability to design and implement successful and sustainable organizational transformation that would deliver breakthrough end-to-end business, cultural and human outcomes as a successful Enterprise Agility Leader.
- Gain processes, skills, tools, and techniques to overcome organizational dysfunctions and impediments and how to design a system that would support high-performance, customer centric, and facilitate higher level of enterprise/business agility.
- How to assess maturity of enterprise/business agility components and take actions for improvement for low maturity components.
Learning Objectives
Mastering enterprise agility coaching skills will require both time and practice. This workshop will enable you to:
- Learn core components of business agility, how it extends beyond team-level agility and how the organization can support business agility.
- Understand and utilize the key skill areas and knowledge areas applied by the best enterprise agility coaches.
- Gain an understanding of organizational change, type of changes, resistance and how to successfully achieve higher degree of enterprise agility.
- See as to how business agility, portfolio agility and delivery agility can compliment each other and be integral part of achieving higher degree of enterprise agility.
- Observe, learn and practice professional coaching skills in order to help leadership effectiveness.
- Learn how to adjust and shift from “Plan and Predict” to “Sense and Respond” mindset for agile leaders.
- Examine healthy business and technology functional areas that are resilient, creative, resourceful and resonant.
- See the broader organizational context more clearly and determine the best interventions, and best actions to create a positive impact.
- You’ll walk away from the course with your personal enterprise agility 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 enterprise agility coach your organization need.
Topics Covered
- Agile and Agility
- Introduction to Coaching and Coach
- Organizational culture, structure, leadership, and practice
- Organizational Design (OD)
- Complexity and Systems
- Five Disciplines
- Leadership
- Mindset
- Lean
Topics Covered (cont'd.)
10. Enterprise and Business Agility
11. Enterprise Agility Coach
12. Enterprise Coaching Competency Framework
13. Agile Adoption
14. Agile Transformation Approach
15. Enterprise Business Agility Assessment
16. Sustainable Agile Enterprise
17. Challenges faced by Enterprise Agility Coaches and how to overcome
18. What’s Next?
Pre-requisites
- Knowledge of Agile Manifesto and Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP) would be very helpful.
- Interested to work in team environment with team members.
- Willingness to learn and apply softskills to teams.
- Curious, eager, patient, and calm.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for:
- Project, Program, and Portfolio Professionals who aspire to take up the role of an Enterprise Agility Coach or Enterprise Agility Leader.
- Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile Project/Program Managers or Iteration Managers who want a more comprehensive understanding of the complete range of business agility and enterprise agility skills.
- Current Agile coaches who want to enhance and improve their professional skills to achieve career progression to Enterprise Agility 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 the 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 business and enterprise agility.