Trainer
OVERVIEW
| PREQUISITES | CSM, CSPO, or equivalent foundational understanding of Scrum and/or Agile (link to course pages if possible) |
|---|---|
| OUTCOME | Agile Scaling Professional certification, skills and tools for effectively (re)scaling your organization |
| DURATION | 2 Days |
| REQUIRED READING | The Scaling Scrum White Paper, Understanding The Well-Formed Team™ White Paper, Agility: A 3Back Scrum White Paper. |
Learn Scaling Scrum with Scrum™ in 3Back’s Agile Scaling Professional (ASP) course. An agnostic approach to multi-team collaboration, this 2-day Agile scaling course lays the groundwork to enable Scrum and Agile practitioners to tackle the difficult, yet rewarding, job of Agile scaling.
3Back’s trainers incorporate hands-on, experiential learning to explore large Organizational Patterns to augment Scaling Patterns for the enterprise. In addition, ASP delivers a thorough assessment and analysis of two popular scaling methods, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) from a Pattern-based perspective.
3Back’s ASP Agile scaling course delves deep into the real-world realities of scaling Agile as a mindset, rather than a recipe. Participants learn how to:
- Prevent paradigm-induced blindness
- Scale by making appropriate adjustments based on reality you have encountered
- Avoid adjustments based on the paradigm you were told to follow
How Hard Can Scaling Be?
Building a successful Well-Formed Scrum Team can be a difficult yet rewarding endeavor. But what happens when one Team isn’t enough? Let’s face it, most of today’s projects are just too large for one Team to tackle alone. This causes a need for many organizations to scale their Scrum or other Agile framework.
Scaling is never easy. Whether scaling your family, business or Scrum implementation, complications have a way of growing exponentially alongside your efforts. Understanding the complexities of multi-Team environments and communication is critical to the successful scaling of Scrum and other Agile frameworks.
3Back’s expert trainers understand that a one-size-fits-all approach is implausible for each unique circumstance and environment. Therefore, our Scaling Bootcamp course is designed to provide guidance in the form of repeatable Patterns that can be adapted and applied to nearly any organization.
What You Get
By taking and completing the class, you will receive your ASP Certification from 3Back
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Agenda
This 2-day certification course in Agile scaling is designed to promote the skills and competencies necessary to adjust scaling within an organization. The intensive ASP training is comprised of facilitated discussion and activities designed to explore the patterns and techniques behind successfully scaling Agile across organizations of varying size. Participants will study the essentials necessary to begin (re)scaling initiatives within an organization.
The following topics will be covered:
- Leadership Teams
- Distribution Team
- Consolidation Team
- Program Team
- Communication Teams
- Scrum-of-Scrums
- Cross-Cutting Workgroups
- I&E Team (Integration & Evaluation)
Additional Details
Agile Scaling Professional – Outcomes
- Acquire the tools to tackle the complex issues of scaling and how to adjust organizational structure appropriately
- Assess how projects are managed in a large, scaled organization
- Understand the critical nature of Structure vs. Governance for scaling success
- Recognize how good leadership drives effective Governance
- Know where to facilitate adjustments in the style of decision-making
- Learn how to negotiate complex scaling methods with small patterns to achieve more effective Governance
- Evaluate appropriate ‘large’ Organization Patterns (COP, etc.)
- Explore how to do more with LeSS and how to make SAFe safer
- Discern how to balance the needs of a Product/Project based organization vs. a Functional (People) based organization
Required Reading
The Scaling Scrum White Paper
Understanding The Well-Formed Team™ White Paper
Agility: A 3Back Scrum White Paper.
Optional Reading
Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals
By Dan Rawsthorne and Doug Shimp
This book takes a deep, exploratory, look into the Scrum framework, and offers advice about how to think about it, and how to use it. Some of this advice is philosophical, some is pragmatic, some is practical, and some of it is controversial.
This book is not an introductory text.3Back Exclusive
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Agile Scaling Professional Training Benefits
So you want to learn Scrum. But is training really worth it?
What can training give you that reading a few books can’t?
Transforming your team or organization to a new methodology is a big undertaking. Organized training will give you the kickstart you need and save you valuable time otherwise wasted on costly trial and error.
Studies show that when learners “do and say,” they experience an increase of knowledge retention up to 80% over reading alone.
Books and blogs are good knowledge resources. Skill, however, is acquired by doing. There is simply no replacement for the skill building that occurs with hands-on activities and real-life simulations.
Who Should Attend
There is no right or wrong person to attend this training. In fact, the most successful agile adoptions have included training for everyone, right down to Finance and Sales staff. Scrum training is especially appropriate for anyone in the corporate structure dealing with rapidly changing demands. In a traditional organization, these roles might include:
What Industries
Use Scrum?
The most popular use of Scrum is for software development in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, education, information technology, government programs and supply chain management. But Scrum goes beyond software development! We’ve known organizations and individuals who have used Scrum for graphic design, wedding planning, data warehousing, consulting, classroom projects, household management, auto salvage yards and much more. Scrum is appropriate for almost any complex project with rapidly changing or emergent requirements, regardless of the industry.
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