Are you looking at going Agile but not sure what’s the right approach?

For organizations looking to use agile techniques to improve their business agility, my Agility Strategy Management/Leadership Workshop is an interactive deep-dive approach to creating or re-aligning a strategy for scaling agility in your organization. Going beyond training, this workshop starts with the organization’s specific pains, context, and improvement goals and focuses on how to implement the learning and drive the change. 

This workshop has been used in dozens of enterprises to help guide an agile journey. It combines field-proven best practices, applied in an interactive and expertly facilitated manner, to provide the organization’s leadership with a context-specific road map to improvement. 

When to use this workshop

The workshop suits organizations in different stages of their agility journey – those new to agile altogether, considering scaling, practicing some aspects of agile, or looking to take their agile from theater to agility by identifying and addressing challenges.  The shared goal relevant for all starting points is the focus on real understanding and applying agility principles and practices at scale and aligning on a concrete blueprint for moving forward. 

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Key Objectives/Deliverables

• Establish Need/Goals for Enterprise Agility through exploration of pains/opportunities in the current way of working. 
• Establish what agile means within the organization –
• Review and learn from applicable case studies for agility at scale.
• Explore complementary practices required to successfully achieve agility in the specific organizational context, e.g.:
• Scenario planning – Create and review a draft blueprint, explore and deal with risks until a high-confidence plan surfaces. 

Workshop Approach

The workshop is highly interactive. We insist on a small, intimate forum where everyone participates and affects the outcome. Innovation Games, Gamestorming, and other techniques are used, and as an important side effect, the participants also learn how to effectively think and collaborate to solve tough system-level problems in the future. 

As the purpose of the workshop is to outline high-level improvement strategies together, the bulk of the thinking is done together in real-time, with us helping you apply relevant thinking approaches and tools. To get the most out of the workshop, we typically spend some time getting acquainted with your context and expectations, using a few focused empathy interviews. 

In true agile fashion, we aim to deliver value rather than follow a predefined plan/syllabus. While a backlog is prepared based on initial preparation/interviews to learn the general context and aims, we continuously seek feedback and adjust direction driving at maximum impact and return on the time of participants based on the discussions and directions that emerge. 

Audience

Leadership Teams, Change Agents, Lean Agile Centers of Excellence (LACE) / Communities of Practice. 

Duration

1-2 days of interviews and preparation.

The main workshop is typically held for 2-3 days, depending on the organization’s size and complexity, and is preferably held in an offsite location. 

Delivery

Yuval Yeret, a SAFe Fellow/SPCT/Scrum.org PST with more than 15 years of experience applying agility at scale with dozens of world-class companies, will facilitate the workshop. 

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