Course Overview

Agility and Business Agility training provides an introduction to the foundations of organizational agility and provides the principles and practices to confidently lead your Lean-to-Agile transformation. The course provide guidance and tools to nurture a culture and a common language that engages employees and focuses on customers so organizations can operate with agility at scale.

Learning Objectives

1. This training provides the following benefits:
2. How to adopt a customer-centric mindset?
3. How to align large and complex organizations around clear, shared goals?
4. How to successfully participate in critical team and organizational activities such as portfolio planning?
5. How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the value stream?
6. With this training You Will Be Able to Answer These Questions:
7. What is Team and Organizational Level Agility?
8. What is business agility and how does leaders can support it?
9. How does an organization start using the Agile practices?

Workshop Structure

Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility

1. Thriving in the digital age
2. SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility

Lesson 2: Building a Foundation with Mindset, Values, and Principles

1. The Lean-Agile Mindset
2. Lean thinking
3. Agile development
4. Organizational agility Core Values
5. Apply Lean - Agile Principles

Lesson 3: Establishing Team and Technical Agility

1. Forming cross-functional Agile Teams
2. Built-in Quality
3. Organizing Team of Teams around the flow of value

Lesson 4: Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery

1. Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
2. Prioritizing the Program Backlog
3. Agile Portfolio Planning
4. Develop on cadence; release on demand
5. Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps

Lesson 5: Exploring Lean Portfolio Management

1. Defining a Lean and agile portfolio
2. Connecting the portfolio to the Enterprise strategy
3. Maintaining the Portfolio Vision
4. Realizing the Portfolio Vision through Epics
5. Establishing Lean Budgets and Guardrails
6. Establishing portfolio flow

Lesson 6: Leading the Change

1. Leading by example
2. Leading the change

Lesson 7: Practicing Building Agile Teams and Agile Organizations