CAS-S1 - US/AUS/NZ | Live Online | Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1

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Improving the value delivered through a large organization isn’t just about following a framework. And cramming through twice the work in half the time just adds stress everywhere.

For success with Agile at scale, it's about increasing capacity while tempering complexity. It’s about discerning patterns and principles that fit your unique situation. It’s about embedding new practices and support structures that guide proven change management ideas. And leading the change through iterative and incremental delivery, enabling you to grow new capabilities while sustaining your business.

If you’re ready to harness the power of aligned autonomy to positively impact business outcomes, this course is for you. Together we’ll uncover common pitfalls with scaling Agile and explore alternatives. You’ll learn how to attune scaling to your business strategy. And you’ll see how it’s possible to lead effective multi-team product development to grow clear, sustainable capabilities.

By the end of the workshop, you'll be prepared to:

• Recognize both the challenges and opportunities of Agile at scale
• Analyze pre-conditions to catalyze scaling that liberate capacity and increase value delivery
• Define a clear strategy and vision for Product-led vs Revenue-led organizations
• Identify transitional structures to make scaling Agility safer for your own business & participants
• Enable your organization to increase capacity and capability to sustainably deliver value

Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no Powerpoint snoozefest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice. You'll find the engaging and impactful sessions turn complex topics into easy to understand concepts and techniques.

And it isn't all theory. Under your trainers' guidance, you'll apply what you've learned to address the challenges you could face with scaling Agile in your own organization.

• 19 Aug: 3 - 7p PT / 6 - 10p ET
  
• 20 Aug: 3 - 7p PT / 6 - 10p ET
  
• 21 Aug: 3 - 7p PT / 6 - 10p ET
  

• 22 Aug: 3 - 7p PT / 6 - 10p ET

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The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1™ certification. It lays the foundation for Agility to spread across your business.  You’ll get:

• certification fees included
• a digital workbook and scrapbook of all class exercises
• access to a private community of your peers for perspective when challenges arise
• complimentary 1:1 personal coaching with your instructor
• stories, tips, tricks and practices to scale your organization so it can thrive in change, profitably.

Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this short tip to help delivery effectiveness:

By the conclusion of this dynamic workshop - you will be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and experience to not only describe Agile at Scale and a case for pursuing it, you will design an approach to enable your organization to increase sustainable value delivery without necessarily adding more people. You'll have tools to create a culture of collaboration, and techniques to harness aligned autonomy across your teams. You'll be ready to be a catalyst for change, applying these concepts so your teams and programs become resilient, learning organizations able to thrive in today’s emerging markets.

"Bernie made this class fun and entertaining. The class flew by everyday. In my situation, I came from a HR background and ZERO scrum experience. Bernie was excellent about relating the class to me in ways that I would better understand what he was teaching." -- Cara Consadine

"This class is worth EVERY PENNY! Bernie is a great instructor that keeps the class entertaining but also provides useful application for real world scenarios." -- Jascelyn Gause

"Multi hour sessions are undeniably daunting, but within the first 15 minutes I was interacting, laughing, and learning. ... I can feel myself using some of the techniques of your flavorful delivery with my team already - and it's making a difference." -- Craig Cochran

"If you're taking this course, "you're in the right place"... Thank you for providing a safe environment to learn new skills. It's crazy how a good teacher can help you learn new things without making it feel like a chore. Take this course, you won't be disappointed." -- Christina Monti

Both Bernie and Anil are international trainers, speakers and coaches. They're two of only a few hundred people worldwide who hold the Certified Scrum Trainer® credential with the Scrum Alliance, the most widely recognized and largest credentialing body in Agile.

Anil Jaising's been tinkering with code, infrastructure and product development from the beginning of his career with expertise in both financial services and startups. In the early 1990s he worked to develop a product that distributed messages worldwide within 3 seconds. He's led cloud transformation programs across 250 application teams for one of the world's largest banks. With his deep experience in Agile, DevOps and leadership, he's helped to guide multiple organizations to achievements in market focus, productivity and quality gains. He teaches in the graduate program at New York University and is well regarded as an Agile, Executive and Technical Coach.

Bernie Maloney’s helped grow businesses from breakeven to beyond $1B / quarter. The teams he’s worked with have delivered products ranging from award winning consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments. He’s worked with firms including Bell Labs, HP, TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. In addition to his client work, he's taught Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies. He helps clients to accelerate the genius in their leaders, teams and organizations, so they experience not only greater success, but also a whole lot more fun.

This workshop includes:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Scaling CAS-S1 certification fee
• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community
• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs
• 16 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

Have you struggled with getting the benefits of Agile beyond a team or two? Is strategically important work overwhelming your organization’s capacity like nearly 80% of those researched by the Business Agility Institute? Is collaboration stalled with nothing being done about it like 60% of those same organizations? Is complexity overwhelming Agile’s promised benefits, risking taking your business off the rails?

Then this course is for you.

While there are no prerequisites, this workshop is designed for leaders, managers and practitioners with a foundational grasp of single team Agile.  We’ll cover advanced topics in multi-team Agile, as well as organizational change management and design.  Participants will build skills to grow learning organizations that handle complexity and can thrive in change.  

As participants come from diverse industries, they often learn from each other’s experiences, contexts and perspectives.  Typical participant roles span:

• Executives, Directors and Senior Management
• Chief Product Owner, Product Managers, Product Owners
• Architects, along with Functional and Technical Managers
• Program or Project Managers and Release Train Engineers
• Practice leads, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters

If you’re ready to realize the benefits of Agile across your organization, you’re in the right place.

• How soon can I get my CAS-S1 certification? At the end of the workshop, we will let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to setup your profile on the Scrum Alliance website. There you'll accept your license agreement with Scrum Alliance and activate your new certification.
• Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified? No. Currently the only requirement to earn the CAS-S1 is the successful completion of the full course, including exercises.
• Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. Scrum Alliance does have an attendance requirement. Because Scrum Alliance requires 16 hours of instruction, if you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, yet you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop. Don't worry, if something big comes up, we'll move you at no charge to a future workshop.
• Can I Make Up Missed Material by Attending Part of Another Workshop? No. Amongst other factors, each class moves through the material at different paces. This means it's unreliable to predict a clear window where a set of previously missed learning objectives will be covered. There are further complicating factors in partial attendance. For the smoothest experience for all, you're welcome to make up missed material by attending a future workshop in full at no charge.
• What do I need to bring to class? You'll need a computer with microphone, camera and speakers. Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection. After the download numbers stop, use the "more" option to calculate your upload speed. You'll need 5 down / 1 up - and more is better. Now, while you're in class you'll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunch.

We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. Please request changes by emailing [email protected].

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