$Certified Path to Agility\u00ae Practitioner Workshop - LIVE ONLINE$

One-day, instructor-led remote workshop provides foundational knowledge of Path to Agility® and how it can manage an Agile Transformation.
About this Event

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 - [email protected].

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.