Lead enterprise transformation for the AI era. LitheSpeed’s CAL 1 and Certified VMO Practitioner® dual-certification course builds on Agile leadership to help you enable a Product Operating Model through three essential pillars: Lean Portfolio Management, Adaptive Governance, and Responsible AI. Earn two certifications while gaining practical tools to connect strategy, investment, governance, products, value streams, and delivery.

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Agile leadership is no longer enough. Today’s leaders must connect Agile ways of working with a modern Product Operating Model, and prepare their organizations for the opportunities, risks, and operating-model implications of AI.

This immersive course combines the leadership foundation of Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1) with the enterprise transformation capabilities of the Certified VMO Practitioner® (CVP). It begins with the changing context for Agile leadership, including the mindsets, behaviors, and cultural conditions needed to lead through complexity and continuous change. It then expands the focus from Agile teams to the enterprise system through which strategy becomes action.

At the center of the course is the Product Operating Model, which connects strategy, portfolios, value streams, products, and durable teams. Participants explore how the Agile VMO® can evolve beyond traditional project oversight to become an enterprise leadership capability that aligns investment and capacity, improves portfolio flow, and enables faster, evidence-based decisions.

The course develops these capabilities through three interconnected pillars:

Lean Portfolio Management

Connect strategy with investment, capacity, and delivery. Learn how to prioritize competing demands, fund products and durable teams, manage portfolio flow, and continually redirect resources toward measurable customer and business outcomes.

Adaptive Governance

Replace episodic planning and rigid controls with clear decision rights, enabling guardrails, rapid feedback, and continuous adjustment. Learn to manage risk and accountability without unnecessarily slowing the flow of value.

Responsible AI

Use AI to improve insight, learning, and decision-making while preserving human judgment and accountable ownership. Explore the leadership guardrails required to address transparency, fairness, safety, and trust as AI becomes embedded in portfolios, products, and teams.

Taught by Agile pioneers and Agile VMO® creators Sanjiv Augustine and Bob Payne, the course combines executive-level concepts with practical frameworks, collaborative exercises, and tools that participants can apply immediately.

Earn two valuable certifications while developing the capabilities to lead product transformation, modernize portfolio management and governance, and help your organization evolve responsibly toward an AI-native future.

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What you'll learn

By completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply Agile leadership principles in complex, rapidly changing environments.
  • Strengthen leadership self-awareness and adapt your approach to context.
  • Create cultures of trust, learning, experimentation, and shared accountability.
  • Explain how a Product Operating Model connects strategy with value delivery.
  • Connect portfolios, value streams, products, and durable teams.
  • Apply Lean Portfolio Management to investment, prioritization, flow, and capacity decisions.
  • Position the Agile VMO® as an enabler of strategic alignment and enterprise agility.
  • Use adaptive governance to improve decision speed without sacrificing oversight.
  • Apply AI to strengthen insight, learning, and portfolio decision-making.
  • Establish responsible AI guardrails that preserve accountability and trust.
  • Develop practical next steps for advancing your organization’s Product Operating Model.
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This was an excellent course. The instructors reviewed the fundamentals and also presented advanced topics. I have come away with highly applicable and easy to implement tools for my organization.

Certified Agile VMO Practitioner

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Who Should Attend

This course is designed for leaders and change agents responsible for connecting strategy, investment, governance, products, and delivery, including:

  • Executives and senior leaders
  • Business and technology leaders
  • PMO, VMO, portfolio, and transformation leaders
  • Product, platform, and value-stream leaders
  • Program and delivery leaders
  • Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and change leaders
  • Strategy, finance, risk, and governance professionals
  • Leaders responsible for AI strategy, adoption, or governance

It is particularly valuable for leaders whose organizations have adopted Agile practices but now need to modernize the broader operating model: how they fund work, organize around products and value streams, govern decisions, manage portfolios, and adopt AI responsibly.

SAMPLE AGENDA

Introduction

  • Welcome, introductions, and learning objectives
  • The changing context for Agile leadership
  • From Agile transformation to a Product Operating Model
  • Leading in an AI-native environment
  • Leadership self-awareness, mindset, and behaviors
  • Creating cultures of trust, learning, and adaptation

Portfolio Agility

  • Connecting strategy, portfolios, value streams, products, and teams
  • The Product Operating Model
  • The evolution from PMO to Agile VMO®
  • Value-stream identification and management
  • Portfolio vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes
  • Lean Portfolio Management
  • Aligning investment and capacity with strategic priorities
  • Portfolio prioritization, flow, and feedback
  • Funding products and durable teams
  • Balancing strategic, operational, and mandatory work

Portfolio Agility - Continued

  • Adaptive Governance
  • Moving from periodic controls to continuous governance
  • Clarifying accountability and decision rights
  • Establishing policies, guardrails, and feedback loops
  • Managing risk while sustaining portfolio flow
  • Responsible AI leadership
  • Using AI to strengthen insight, learning, and decision-making
  • Preserving human judgment and accountable ownership
  • Addressing transparency, fairness, safety, and trust
  • Applying AI responsibly across portfolios, products, and teams
  • Integrating Lean Portfolio Management, Adaptive Governance, and Responsible AI

Closing

  • Assessing your organization’s current state
  • Applying the three pillars within your Product Operating Model
  • Personal and organizational action planning
  • Key takeaways and commitments
  • Course retrospective and closing

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