Although the end product is to have a roadmap to the path of being agile you will be able to start work and implement changes after each section. You will discover quick hits that can make a difference right away.

What is in the roadmap?

It is a three-component system with three sub-components to achieve business and technical agility throughout the organization.

The roadmap is set up where you can start with a team, a department or the entire enterprise. It allows attendees to grow agility organically and not try to force in change. The organic way of agility growth creates exponentially more value to everyone than just implementing an agile framework.

Component 1 - Foundation

Without a strong foundation in agility, there will be constant struggles. Whether it is between team members, teams or departments without that foundational view of agility value will diminish.

Section 1 - Start

Whether you are about to do an agile transformation or have already implemented it there needs to be a baseline. This section here gets through the basic understanding of the right agile behaviours needed to succeed. It provides the ability to find the gaps or underlying issues causing frustrations

- Understanding agile values

Section 2 - Goals

Without goals, teams are a rudderless ship trying to navigate through their agile journey. Here we look at clarifying the right goals for the right teams to succeed.

- Understanding innovation

Section 3 - Design

Imagine an environment effectively designed based on strategy. No longer focused on the tactical. Producing value to the customers and to those within the organization.

- Start with Servant Leader

Component 2 - System

When talking about systems we do not go through what is being built. We talk about the system of how the work is done.

Section 1 - Pathway

After determining the goals now it is the time for the team to determine their pathway to get there.

- Understand needs over wants

Section 2 - Continuous improvement

To be agile means that there is a progression to improving value, to the customers as well as the organization as a whole. To find the improvements and measure the qualitative and quantitative methods are needed.

- Improvement identification process

Section 3 - Trust

In the previous component, the foundation of trust is built. Now we evolve and enhance it even more.

- Understanding the expectations of agile values

Component 3- Scale

This is not about SAFe©. This is about scaling the agile behaviours through the team and into the organization. At this point, the team will be running on all cylinders and achieving new limits of value add. Here we discuss working with other teams, internally and externally, to reach higher limits.

Section 1 - Quality

Quality of the product, service, work everything that is done quality is what everyone wants. They want to produce it and help everyone else succeed at it.

- Understanding changing priorities

Section 2 - Maturity

Although this section is called maturity in the end it is about evolution. Unlike CMMi and other maturity models being agile is about a continuous flow of improvements. There is no limit to what teams can achieve. There does need to be maturity in their discipline to foster evolution.

- What constitutes an agile environment

Section 3 - Scale

Now we set up the organic growth of agility. Teams and leadership will see the improvements and higher value achievement and wat the same thing. 

- Have the right agile operating system for your organization

Who should take this course?

You are about to or have completed an agile transformation.