Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1 (CAS-S1)-Jun 12 & 13, 2024 - 9am-5pm PT

* *PLEASE NOTE THIS CLASS IS BEING HELD VIRTUALLY ON PACIFIC TIME (9-5)

What is Scaling / The Fundamentals

The goal of scaling is to enable an organization to increase its capacity and capability without necessarily adding more people. This can be achieved through creating a culture of collaboration, aligning teams on shared objectives and outcomes, minimizing handoffs and dependencies between teams, and employing different methods for breaking down complex problems into smaller pieces that can be tackled by several teams simultaneously.

Before beginning any scaling effort, it's important to understand what makes scaling so challenging and what pre-conditions help address these challenges. Common pre-conditions include clear objectives and goals for the organization's scaling efforts, a well-defined and shared philosophy on how to approach scaling (such as taking an informed principle-led pattern approach), and an appreciation for complexity and systems thinking.

Patterns Help Solving Problems with Scale

When it comes to scaling, flexibility in approach is the key to success. What works in one context will not always work in another. Patterns are the building blocks we can use to build a successful scaling strategy for your context. Patterns are like recipes: they provide structure for solving a given problem in an effective manner while allowing for variations depending on context. Combining a principle-based approach with common patterns allows you space for creative problem solving that avoids the “one size fits all” approach.

To understand how to build a scaling strategy it is also useful to consider the categories of challenges that come with scaling from a functional perspective. This can help us better meet issues where they are, rather than trying to force fit solutions into a hypothesized environment. A strong organizational context helps navigate the unintended consequences of organizational change.

Scaling for Outcomes/Results, Scaling and Achieving Results

Scaling is not just a business exercise; it's a people exercise. The art is to make the scaling change sustainable, recognizing that agile scaling requires organizational change management. A proven approach is to set up supporting structures, which we refer to as scaffolds, to guide the change and embed new practices.

Scaling is a process that can benefit the entire organization, but it requires support to ensure it is done successfully. By understanding what scaling involves and taking a methodical approach to achieving desired outcomes, organizations can build strong teams and cultures that are ready for anything. With the right strategy in place, an organization's scaling efforts can lead to greater efficiency, agility and customer satisfaction.

Key concepts

What Will I Learn in This Agile Scaling Course?

Implement your strategy and deliver better results to your customers, faster. Scaling agility may be the right way to get there, and this course is designed to help you decide if scaling is the best path forward.

The topics covered in this course include the following:

• Understand the definition of scaling agile product delivery
• Find out why scaling so often fails
• Align scaling efforts with your enterprise strategy
• Achieve multi-team, multi-site agile product development to drive sustainable, lasting transformation

Ramp Up the Results of Your Agile Efforts

Unlike prescriptive scaling frameworks, the CAS-S1 course equips you with the skills and knowledge to help you identify and explore principle-informed patterns that apply to your organization's unique and evolving context.

In this course, you will:

• Develop the skills and mindset needed to consider an approach to scaling
• Align your organizational principles with appropriate scaling patterns
• Understand the need to evolve your scaling approach
• Recognize the role of patterns in frameworks, improving the effectiveness of frameworks
• Explore the use of 'scaffolding' to aid your organization in moving in the desired direction
• Become a member of the world’s largest global community of agilists with opportunities to connect with peers mentors, and subject matter experts

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Trainer:

Dave Sharrock

Dave is an acclaimed Scrum and Agile trainer, dedicated to helping individuals master Scrum methodologies for their personal growth and improved project management skills. He has an engaging and practical training approach, and is the only Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) in Canada. Dave empowers individuals to embrace an Agile mindset, driving their professional development and effectiveness in various team environments.

Prerequisites:

A good appreciation of agile practices and frameworks, starting with Scrum. No prerequisite courses or training is necessary.

Who Should Attend:

Change agents and others participating in or leading agile scaling efforts; managers, executives, internal coaches, and external coaches and consultants.

• Middle managers driving the change
• Executives who believe in the change
• Agilists who embody the change

Training Agenda:

• Reasons to Scale
• Cynefin & Complexity
• Scaling Philosophy
• Scaling Challenges
• Vision, Value & Principles
• Patterns & Practices
• Supporting Scaffolds
• Organizational Change

Additional Benefits:

• Course qualifies you for 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) and 16 Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
• Registration includes two years of Scrum Alliance membership
• Pre- and post-course emails with recommended readings and videos
• Digital copy of the workbook as well as of the in-class artifact

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• Corporate discounts
• Dave Sharrock referral discount

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