Certified Path to Agility® Practitioner Workshop - LIVE ONLINE

About Path to Agility

Achieving the benefits of business agility requires overcoming complex challenges, such as:

• Aligning leadership on desired business outcomes
• Understanding the necessary elements within your organizational system
• Building the right team to enable effective organizational change
• Creating visibility into impediments
• Establishing effective improvement metrics, and
• Ensuring a holistic and aligned approach that balances top-down with bottom-up focus

The Path to Agility approach provides a way to navigate these challenges to deliver improved business outcomes.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is for change leaders who are focused on achieving sustainable improvement in organizational capabilities that deliver improved business performance.

About this virtual workshop

This is a web-based, instructor-led workshop. Agile Velocity transformation coaches/trainers have developed a virtual experience that provides effective learning and practical, hands-on activities, accommodating learners who either work from home or are part of a distributed team/organization. For optimal user experience, it is suggested that participants have a dual-monitor setup and the ability to enable video.

Minimum Requirements

Participants should have the following knowledge and experience to derive maximum value from this workshop:

• Mastery of foundational Agile concepts Agile Values and Principles,
• Familiarity with lean-agile frameworks (Scrum / XP / Kanban / Scaling) and the impact they have within an organizational change context 
• Experience catalyzing organization change anywhere from an individual team up to a full company initiative

Key Learning Outcomes

• Identify common challenges with transformations / organizational change initiatives and how Path to Agility addresses these challenges
• Explain the advantages of an outcomes-based transformation approach
• Explain the structure and benefits of Path to Agility
• Use Path to Agility to create a transformation backlog
• Apply Path to Agility to guide teams and organizations to achieve desired business outcome performance improvements through common adoption patterns

Workshop Outline (subject to change)

Transformation Context

• Agile Transformation challenges and characteristics
• Top 10 reasons for Agile Transformation failure
• How Path to Agility addresses common failures
• Introduction to Leading Change
• Core challenges with change
• Change leadership vs change management

Facilitation approaches to ensure:

• Leadership alignment
• Co-creation and change effectiveness

Path to Agility approach

• How all the elements of Path to Agility (Stages, Levels, Outcomes, and Capabilities) relate to each other
• Hands-on activities using Path to Agility
• Transformation roadmaps and backlogs

Five Stages of Path to Agility

• The goals of each stage (Align, Learn, Predict, Adapt, Accelerate)
• The degree of “completeness” required for each stage
• How each stage relates to introducing change

Three Levels of Path to Agility

• Why Agile Transformations require more than just enablement of individual teams or departments
• Definitions for each of the three levels (Team, System, Organization)
• How each of the levels work together to enable sustainable change
• Understanding of what levels are related to your organization

Nine Business Outcomes of Path to Agility

• Why Business Outcomes should drive Agile Transformations
• Definitions for each of the Path to Agility Business Outcomes
• Relationship of Path to Agility Business Outcomes
• Understanding of which Path to Agility Business Outcomes may work best for your organization’s context

30+ Agile Outcomes of Path to Agility

• Awareness of the 30+ Agile Outcomes
• How Agile Outcomes are related to Business Outcomes
• Understanding how Agile Outcomes fit in each stage and level
• How Agile Outcomes are related in Path to Agility

100+ Agile Capabilities of Path to Agility

• Awareness of the 100+ Agile Capabilities
• Understanding how Agile Capabilities enable Agile Outcomes
• How Agile Capabilities inform a Transformation Backlog

What do I get?

Attendees who complete this workshop will receive:

• Certification as a Practitioner and license to use Path to Agility
• Path to Agility Card Deck *
• Path to Agility Playbook
• Path to Agility Practitioner Community Access
• 6-month access to full features of Path to Agility Navigator
• Unlimited access to the Path to Agility Content in Navigator

* All attendees will receive access to a virtual Path to Agility deck. Physical card decks will be shipped to attendees within the continental United States.

Options for this workshop

If you would like to register multiple participants, or have a large group of people at your organization you would like to have participate in this training, we can offer a private workshop option. Contact us at - dHJhaW5pbmcgfCBhZ2lsZXZlbG9jaXR5ICEgY29t.

About Randy Hale

Empathetic change catalyzer who will enable you to see your challenges more clearly and your possibilities with great enthusiasm. Deeply experienced in Enterprise Lean-Agile Transformation, Business and Product Strategy; Product Management Leadership; Organizational and Strategic Portfolio Transformation. Helped companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to drive strategic organizational, cultural, and process change in support of improved employee engagement, faster product time-to-market, increased customer satisfaction, and accelerated revenue recognition.

About Sally Tait

Sally Tait is a pragmatic and human-focused Agile transformation leader, with a mission to simplify and improve ways of working so that it’s more fun, more personally fulfilling, and more valuable to the business at hand. She is passionate about fostering continuous improvement through listening, learning, collaborating, and building alignment. She is a versatile leader with experience ranging from enterprise Agile adoption and organizational change, to project leadership, to product management. Sally has lived all over the USA, now lives in Scotland, and now extends her expertise globally, working closely with leaders and teams across the world as an accomplished coach, mentor, and trainer.

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