Certified Agile Scaling Professional
The Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) is tailored to organizational leaders, managers, and anyone wanting to ramp up agile scaling results.
Scaling agile has been one of the hottest topics over the past decades, one of the most invested areas by companies and individuals, and scaling skills is one of the most thought-after skills across industries globally.
Unlike prescriptive scaling frameworks or scaled methodologies, this program equips participants with the skills and knowledge to help them identify and explore pattern-based and principle-informed approaches that apply to your organization’s unique and evolving context. Suppose you are curious about agile at scale, and puzzled with current prescriptive frameworks implemented in your organization. In that case, you have come to the right place – join the Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) program.
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What can you expect from this program?
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First, this is NOT yet another framework or another methodology about scaling, and it doesn’t come with a long list of certified programs. This program is not as simple as “picking”, or “implementing” a new framework or a methodology.
Instead, this program is a very hands-on workshop which focuses on pattern-based and principle-informed approaches where organizations draw from recognized and proven scaling patterns.
No matter your situation, this program helps you learn from established and proven patterns, select patterns for your unique contexts, solve your current challenges, and evolve agility at scale through hands-on exercises and case studies.
You will be able to –
- Build the right mindset for scaling
- Develop the skills needed to evaluate approaches to scaling
- Decide when to Scale and why to Scale
- Equip you with the foundational toolkit
- Understand the need to evolve your scaling approach
- Appreciate pattern-based approach in enhancing the effectiveness of current framework and methodology adoption
- Evaluate and select patterns in organizations
- Relate patterns, scaffolds and frameworks to advance to the desired next step
- Explore the use of ‘scaffolding’ to aid organizations in moving in the desired direction
- Lead large-scale product development efforts
- Evolving agility at scale in an agile way
- Live, immersive exercises to build scaling skills
- Membership with the Scrum Alliance
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Audience
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This course is for:
- Managers at all levels in companies that might have implemented a prescriptive framework
- Program and project managers, and/or agile delivery leads
- Agile coaches and consultants
- Portfolio managers, product managers and product owners
- Anyone who works on agile adoption
- Anyone who embodies change
Although the program does not require prior learning, participants should go through the preparation materials to maximize everybody’s learning experience during the workshop. The more hands-on experience participants have, the more passion and curiosity participants bring, and the more beneficial the workshop will be!
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Commitments
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- Preparation before the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes (or 120 minutes if no prior learning) on average
- 2-day (or 3 half-day) workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops
Evelyn Tian
Evelyn Tian is an experienced coach, trainer, and international keynote speaker with a deep passion for enabling organizational growth and driving product excellence. She is among the very few worldwide who hold the combined credentials of Certified Enterprise Coach, Certified Team Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, and Advanced Certified Mentor Coach.
Dedicated to supporting both individuals and organizations in reaching the next level, Evelyn has mentored agile practitioners from more than 80 countries (as of November 2023). She actively contributes to the global community through free monthly coaching clinics and international networking events.
Evelyn is a China born Canadian living in Sweden, and holds academic background spans Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and an Executive MBA.
Course Content
Scaling Essentials
- What is Scaling? What and Why?
- When to Scale and When Not to Scale?
- Scaling Scenario
- ScalED vs ScalING vs DEScaling
- Scaling Philosophy
Patterns, Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
- What is a pattern? Why patterns?
- Introduction to Established and Proved Patterns
- Hands-on: Evaluate and Select Patterns for Your Context
- Recognizing Anti-Patterns
- Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
- Hands-on: Appraise and Create Scaffolds for Your Context
- Lifecycle of Patterns and ScaffoldsAssessing Group’s Context and Needs
Scaling Frameworks
- Relationship between frameworks and patterns
- Advancing with pattern-based approaches
Scaling Challenges
- Challenges and complexity
- Organizational Uniqueness
- Case Studies to learn to overcome challenges at scale
Organizational Change Management and Scaling Agility
- Scaling successfully and sustainably
- Align scaling efforts with your enterprise strategy
Design and Summarize the Next Steps for Your Organization
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