Leaders in today’s conditions need to be able to operate effectively amid uncertainty, complexity and rapid change. Our Certified Agile Leadership workshops are focused on the role, responsibilities and reasons for being an agile leader. Create a personalized plan in this highly interactive program that can be put directly into action following the workshop.
We currently offer the following Certified Agile Leadership Workshops:
See upcoming dates for these workshops to the right. If you are looking for an individual certification (CAL-E, CAL-T or CAL-O, please reach out to our team).
Stay engaged and entertained through a rich combination of discussions with peers, lecture, movies, micro-exercises and more. Our CAL workshops are taught by actual executives who have personally been at the forefront of numerous agile transformations, and are recognized thought leaders in the agile space for over fifteen years. Personal experience in both public and commercial organizations with the full gamut of agile techniques including Scrum, Kanban, scaling methods and DevOps helps instructors connect with the real-world needs of participants, instead of just conveying theory. Learn what has and hasn’t worked in real world whole-company transformations, encompassing not just software development but also impacts to HR, finance, marketing and more.
Industry-leading Agile and Lean expert Sanjiv Augustine has transformed organizations through enterprise Agile methods for 25 years. Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor to executives and management at leading firms including: Capital One, The Capital Group, CNBC, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Nationwide Insurance, Walmart and Samsung. Sanjiv is the chair of the Agile Alliance Agile Executive Forum, is a regular keynote speaker, and has authored several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the books Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005) and Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart. Get to know Sanjiv.
Arlen Bankston was at the vanguard of the agile movement, beginning to practice within two years of the Agile Manifesto’s writing and soon developing one of the earliest Scrum Product Owner courses. He co-founded a premier Agile consultancy (LitheSpeed), and was among the first to explicitly blend lean systems thinking and userexperience practices with agile software development practices. An active executive for over 17 years, he continues to coach, speak, train and mentor to stay at the edge of ever-advancing lean and agile practices. Learn more about Arlen.
A Certified Scrum Trainer and early adopter of Extreme Programming, Scrum and SAFe, Bob Payne has worked exclusively as a Lean+Agile Transformation leader since 1999. He hosts the AgileToolkit podcast and has produced over 170 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and Agile practitioners. Bob’s consulting and training style is built on years of Lean+Agile experience, a MSEE in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence, and having grown up working in his family’s restaurant, so you can expect a blend of technical excellence and customer service.
The Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) program includes introductory education to bring awareness of the focus and journey of the Agile leader as well as an advanced path of validated learning and practice for the leader to continue the learning journey. An Agile leader is knowledgeable about agile values, approaches and practices. And they strive to find creative solutions through increased self-awareness, a growth mindset and team engagement. In an Agile organization, leaders must shift from directive approaches to ones that enable autonomy, mastery and purpose within the ranks of their employees. In the Certified Agile Leadership workshop, you will assess the current state of agility within your organizations and discuss the unique requirements of the agile leader’s role. During the workshop, develop short-term plans to drive better application of the agile mindset and techniques.
Across all of our Agile leadership workshops, you will gain necessary experience to:
Our combination courses include CAL-E + CAL-O and CAL-E + CAL-T.
The goal of this course is to bring awareness and understanding of the foundations of agile leadership. Exploring the way agile leaders think, focus, and behave allows the participants to begin their learning journey regarding what it takes to lead in today’s workplace.
Organizations today are striving to stay on top of rapidly changing business needs and are coming to understand that the need to respond and adapt quickly is becoming increasingly important. Business leaders are now required to shift the way that they think about their role as a leader, their relationship to their employees, and the culture of their organization. Agile leaders are needed to help their organizations thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. (Via Scrum Alliance)
The goal of this course is to create awareness about the changing dynamics in today’s world of work and equip leaders with the practices they need to effectively lead their teams. Agile teams require an alternative to the traditional leadership approaches of the past in order to achieve better outcomes and thrive in this VUCA world (as learned in the CAL-Essentials module).
This course will help participants understand how their natural dispositions might affect their team and how to influence the workplace empowering teams to thrive. Leaders will learn how to create a safe-to-fail environment while fostering a culture of transparency, inspection and adaptation to allow for experimentation and continuous learning within their teams. (Via Scrum Alliance)
The goal of this course is to bring awareness to the practices and principles of agility and how they apply to businesses and organizations. Through analysis of case studies, assessment, discussion and evaluation, participants will gain insight into what practices will enable them to lead real change across their organization.
Business leaders are encouraged to shift their mindset, evolve and lead their organization in empowering employees and becoming agents of change. In this module, participants will gain tangible knowledge, skills, and techniques that will help them towards making organizational agility a reality for their companies. (Via Scrum Alliance)
During the workshop, agile leaders review different scaling frameworks and learn to break down barriers to enterprise agility and develop short-term plans to drive better application of the agile mindset and techniques. To this end, the workshop studies three key leadership factors: people operations, self-management and organizational transformation. Collectively, you will:
Why agility is critical in today’s ever-changing environment:
What Agile leadership entails
How to be a great Agile leader
Why leadership and culture is critical to enable organizational agility
What challenges leaders face when transforming organizations to agility
How leaders can most effectively drive organizational change
You will gain hands-on experience in:
You will have the ability to:
During the workshop, agile leaders develop short-term plans to drive better application of the agile mindset and techniques. To this end, the workshop studies Why organizations adopt agile methods, What leadership’s role in a transformation entails, and How leaders can most effectively guide and support agility throughout a company.
In this workshop, you will:
Why agility is critical in today’s ever-changing environment:
What Agile leadership entails
How to be a great Agile leader
Why leadership is important for agile teams
What leaders must do to enable agile teams
How leaders can most effectively help teams perform at their optimal level
Influencing agile teams effectively as a leader
You will gain hands-on experience in:
You will have the ability to:
2 8-hour online training days are fun and exciting as you learn with fellow professionals from around the world.
Some answers to online training FAQs from our students:
The CAL II is an experiential workshop for leaders with advanced agile practice.
2 Days + 4 Hours
This two-day, interactive workshop focuses on building a culture of innovation and expanding the Agile mindset and methods to all teams and departments. We will focus on agile leadership in the pandemic crisis from both an organizational and personal perspective. We will explore new organizational models for rapid value delivery, feedback and customer outcomes. You will also explore your personal leadership style and learn how to apply it for the best outcomes in an agile organization.
A rich combination of discussions with peers, lecture, videos, micro-exercises and more ensure that participants are engaged and learning. Dive into case studies and intense enterprise-focused Lean & Agile methods. Learn alongside other leaders, craft your Agile leadership strategy to deliver faster results, higher quality, and unparalleled innovation. Learn what has and hasn’t worked in real world whole-company transformations, encompassing not just software development but also changes to HR, finance, marketing and more.
This session is aimed at helping you create a personalized plan that you can put directly into action following the workshop.
You will learn:
You will gain hands-on knowledge in:
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This class was high energy and the instructor was amazing. Best training class ever.