Designing Agile Organizations
As a leader, you know that being agile is key to meeting your customers’ needs. But did you know that your organizational design plays a critical role in enabling or hindering your team’s ability to adapt?
By taking this course, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how organizational design impacts your teams' agility, and learn guidelines and techniques for designing an agile organization that supports your business strategy.
By taking this course, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how organizational design impacts your teams' agility, and learn guidelines and techniques for designing an agile organization that supports your business strategy.
Course Overview
This 2-day course is about re-designing an organization into one that can respond effectively to market changes and delight the customer.
To quote John Seddon: “Culture Change is Free. People’s behaviour is a product of their system”.
Participants explore how to design an Agile organization, from product definition, structure, roles and responsibilities to your appraisal system.
Participants leave this course with an appreciation for the Agile mindset and how to deal with common adoption mistakes. They gain the understanding about how to make informed decisions about their transformation that will be most beneficial to their organization.
To quote John Seddon: “Culture Change is Free. People’s behaviour is a product of their system”.
Participants explore how to design an Agile organization, from product definition, structure, roles and responsibilities to your appraisal system.
Participants leave this course with an appreciation for the Agile mindset and how to deal with common adoption mistakes. They gain the understanding about how to make informed decisions about their transformation that will be most beneficial to their organization.
Book
The course is based on the book "Creating Agile Organizations" by Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavlichenko, and uses a mix instruction and group sctivities. Participants learn how to adopt Agile at large scale, avoid common mistakes, and make informed transformation decision for their organization.
All participants get a copy of the book "Creating Agile Organizations"
All participants get a copy of the book "Creating Agile Organizations"
Who should
attend
The Agile Organization designer course is for people in leadership roles that play a key role in organization redesign and support an Agile adoption effort. We recommend that Tech, Business and senior leadership representatives attend, preferably together.
Preperation for the Course
Basic Scrum & Agile knowledge is expected and can be achieved by reading the book Emergent and Scrum material such as the Scrum Primer and the LeSS book.
Certified – Designing Agile Organizations
All participants receive a Designing Agile Organization certificate
Course Agenda
DAY 1Design For Strategic Alignment
What is an agile organization?
Overview of the CAO approach.
Aligning Organization Design with Your Strategic Focus.
Driving Organization Design with Capabilities
Systems Thinking for designing an agile organization.
Designing The Product or Service
Designing The Product Group
Eliminating Team Dependencies by Design
Overview of the CAO approach.
Aligning Organization Design with Your Strategic Focus.
Driving Organization Design with Capabilities
Systems Thinking for designing an agile organization.
Designing The Product or Service
Designing The Product Group
Eliminating Team Dependencies by Design
DAY 2Design For Global Improvement
Designing The Larger Organization
Decoupling Departments, Shared Services & Product Groups
Designing Product Management & Line Managment.
The Agile Organization design guides.
Processes & integration: how to coordinate and integrate across units.
People practices.
Working with Large Platform groups
Decoupling Departments, Shared Services & Product Groups
Designing Product Management & Line Managment.
The Agile Organization design guides.
Processes & integration: how to coordinate and integrate across units.
People practices.
Working with Large Platform groups
With Cesario Ramos, co-creator of Creating Agile Organizations
Cesario Ramos
Cesario Ramos works on large-scale transformation all over the world in banking, insurance, and high-tech industries. He is also a Certified LeSS Trainer and Professional Coach. In 2010 he founded AgiliX, a consulting company, that provides consulting and training worldwide
Cesario is the author of the books ‘Creating Agile Organization’, ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption’ and co-author of the book ‘A Scrum Book’.
He is a frequently invited speaker at conferences around the world and organizer of the international Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) conferences.
Cesario is the author of the books ‘Creating Agile Organization’, ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption’ and co-author of the book ‘A Scrum Book’.
He is a frequently invited speaker at conferences around the world and organizer of the international Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) conferences.
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