AGILE EXPERT PROGRAM In dynamic world we live in, only responsive enterprises survive. Changing your organization into a responsive enterprise is hard. Consolidating this responsiveness is even harder.
Become an Agile Expert At Prowareness we have expertise to increase responsiveness your organization by introducing Agile & Lean practices. After our Prowareness consultants have helped you become more responsive you need your own experts to take responsibility this new DNA. Prowareness can help you select se champions and educate m to become an Agile Expert. These employees act as change agents in transition towards Agility and in becoming more responsive. We fer Agile Expert program, an all-inclusive program that includes training, coaching and final certification. The Agile Expert program encompasses a curriculum 10 expertise areas rolled out over a period twelve months. Each expertise area consists 1 day training, an assignment and a collective coaching intervision, where you be coached on outcome assignment. Prerequisites In order to participate in program, you need: One following certifications: PSM/PSPO I/PSD I (Scrum.org)/CSM/CSPO/CSD (Scrum Alliance); At least 1 year experience in role Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scrum developer or Scrum coach. Investment Time: Approximately 33 days including assignments, training & coaching retreat. Costs: Entire all-inclusive program (incl. certification, lunch & dinner): 10.900,- p.p. (The program be limited to a maximum 12 participants in order to guarantee quality.) You be briefly interviewed by us to assess your level knowledge and learning objectives/ expectations.
Program Module 1 A framework for leading an Agile transition Agility Ladder framework Module 2 Accelerating transition Practices for accelerating an Agile transition Module 3 Agile practices & framework Agile methodologies focus on value steering Module 4 Scaling Agility Scaling frameworks and practices Module 5 Advanced Backlog management Tools and advanced practices for responsive Backlog management Module 6 Culture & governance How to change culture & governance in a responsive enterprise Module 7 Facilitation continuous improvement How to coach Scrum Masters & coaches for continuous improvement Module 8 Pressional coaching Introduction to & practices for pressional coaching skills Module 9 (elective option) Agile Management How to facilitate an agile manager Module 10 Publication & Visual facilitation Prepare a whitepaper and/or Agile+ market presentation For each module investment is 3 working days: 1 Day training, followed by; 1 Day practical, on job assignment; 1 Day coaching retreat.
Module 1: A Framework for leading an Agile transformation This module introduce participants in growth model an organization go through to become a responsive enterprise. This model be foundation for rest program. The Agility Ladder Framework toger Transition Governance help participant to start transition at ir own organization and provides m a framework to initiate and monitor transition. Design Design outline outline and and expectations expectations program program toger toger participants and and provide provide basic basic framework to to initiate a transition in in organization. Introduction program Garing learning objectives Introduction Agility Ladder Introduction Leading transformation. Homework Assignments Module 2: Accelerating transition In first module we introduced a framework for becoming a responsive enterprise. This framework can be used as an exoskeleton ( practices, principles and stages) for creating a responsive enterprise. If you don t know where to begin se practices, principles and stages a transformation can be a real slow and frustrating experience. There is not standard recipe for doing a transformation, it has more characteristic solving a sudoku. The exoskeleton provides you a structure but actual transformation requires an empirical approach in order to accelerate transformation. In this session, we provide a number ways to help you to get focus on part ladder where you have most impact & influence.
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Practices Publication topics Module 4: Scaling Growing enterprises ten face issue Scaling Agility. There are many frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, DAD, Spotify, NEXUS, etc) available that try to answer question on how to have multiple teams work toger on a product or even multiple products. This module explore different frameworks ir advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls. learn learn how how to to advice advice ir ir organization organization on on aspects aspects Scaling Scaling Agility. Agility. They They learn learn about about how how to to give give advice to to ir organization on on different aspects && practices available frameworks. Scaling basics & reasons Exploring different scaling frameworks Exercise to experience scaling Summary Module 5: Advanced Backlog Management Creating and maintaining a good Product Backlog is one most important things Scrum teams and Product Owners should rely on. This module discusses techniques and practices that provide participants to translate a product roadmap into a Product Backlog. go home a number tools and practices that help m to build\maintain a good Product Backlog.
Application Lifecycle management\backlog management Defects From Idea to Backlog Creating a transparent Product Backlog Estimation techniques Progress visualization Module 6: Governance & culture Growing as an organization towards responsiveness eventually mean organizational governance and culture change. This module provide practices, insights and means to achieve changes on governance and cultural level. We explore different governance structures and elements that determine culture. learn learn difference difference between between governance governance & culture. culture. They They explore explore cultural\governance aspects that are required to support an support Agile transition. Agile transition. Shortly discuss program day Theory Governance & culture Governance structures & inspirational models Creating your own governance structure What is culture? Cultural sociology elements How to change a culture?
Module 7: Facilitation Continuous Improvement In this module participants learn facilitate teams & individuals towards continuous improvement. also learn difference between facilitating groups in becoming a team. We discuss group facilitation and individual facilitation. We use a number cases where se facilitation techniques can be applied. Understand Understand why why to to facilitate facilitate to to improve improve and and not not to to steer steer and and what what practices to apply to apply. Groups & Teams Group decision making Retrospectives Facilitation tips & trics Cases Facilitation individual improvement Module 8: Pressional Coaching In this module participants be introduced basics Pressional coaching. During coaching retreats previous modules, some se practices have already been introduced. This module summarize all necessary ingredients that can help in becoming a better coach. Besides introduction techniques, this module focus on practicing to apply se techniques in coaching conversations. learn learn effect effect a a number coaching techniques. This module can can be be a a starting point for for someone pressional coaching ambitions to to start start practicing or or event extend se skills on a more pressional pressional basis. basis.
Powerfull questions Levels listening Co-active coaching model Flow a coaching conversation Designing an alliance Requests and accountability The wheel Agile Coaching conversation practicing Module 9: Agile Management In this module participants learn how to facilitate managers to become Agile leaders. We introduce a model that gives an overview focus areas for Agile managers. By a number role-playing exercises, participants learn how to coach an Agile manager, learning to become a facilitative leader in an Agile environment, using 4 window model. We also give an overview practices that can be applied by managers. learn learn a a number number skills\focus skills\focus areas areas on on how how to to coach coach an an Agile manager. Agile manager. Higher management view on Agile Middle management view on Agile 4 Windows for managing complex systems Psychological Window Behavioral Window Cultural Window Systems Window Overview practices
Module 10: Publication & Visual facilitation During all previous modules participants have worked on a publication and presentation this material. The first part Module 10 be used to finalize this publication and prepare for presentation. The second part Module 10 be used for facilitating graphical\visual presentation workshops. These techniques can be used for giving trainings & workshops. Goals: Goals: Finish Finish Agile Agile Expert Expert program program a a publication publication as as a result result improvement steps steps in in program. Improve graphical presentation skills Publication (also handled in coaching retreats previous modules) Presenting skills (also handled in coaching retreats previous modules) Sketchnoting Templates for graphical presentations
Trainers Ron Eringa Agile consultant Injecting passion, Agility & quality into your organisation r.eringa@prowareness.nl Stephan van Rooden Agile consultant Vragen? Vragen! s.vanrooden@prowareness.nl Henk Jan Huizer Agile coach Individuals and interactions h.huizer@prowareness.nl Rob van Lanen Change agent Responding to change over following a plan r.vanlanen@prowareness.nl Rini van Solingen Chief Technical Officer JFDI r.vansolingen@prowareness.nl Headquarters Delft (NL) Brassersplein 1 2612CT, Delft The Nerlands +31 15 241 18 00 www.prowareness.nl www.scrum.nl info@prowareness.nl Office Bangalore (IN) 2nd Floor, #128/9, Maruthi Sapphire HAL Airport Road, Murgesh Palya Bangalore, 560017, India +91 80 67 29 80 00 www.prowareness.com info@prowareness.com Office Düsseldorf (DE) Stadttor Medienhafen 17. Etage Stadttor 1, 40219 Düsseldorf Germany +49 211 3003 401 www.prowareness.de www.scrum.de info@prowareness.de Office Silicon Valley (US) 530 Lytton Avenue 2nd Floor Palo Alto, California 94301, United States +1650 617 3267 www.prowareness.com info@prowareness.com