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Agile Awareness Workshop
for Executive Managers
​HALF DAY CLASSROOM TRAINING  |  SINGAPORE & HONG KONG 

Course Overview

This half-day workshop introduces participants to Agile. The first part of the session provides the attendees with basic understanding about Agile and helping top management assess the business benefits of Agile for their organisation. It introduces best practices of Agile organisation transformation. Challenges and traps are also addressed. During the second part of the workshop we discuss possible strategies for deploying Agile in the company specific context and identify possible first steps for moving forward with Agile adoption. 

Course Objectives

This workshop introduces participants to Agile main concepts, values and principles; it engages attendees in understanding the main Agile frameworks so to help evaluating its possible benefits in their own context. It also helps attendees understand the challenges of agile adoption, the main strategies for transforming their organisation and their role, as leaders, in making their Agile journey successful.  

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a clear understanding about:
  • What is agile? Why is Agile primarily a mindset? 
  • ​The business benefits of Agile for their organization
  • Major Agile delivery frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Design Thinking and Lean Startup
  • The role of the management in Agile organizations
  • How top management can accelerate the Agile transformation journey for business and technology
  • Possible next steps towards introducing Agile in their organization (training, pilot selection, etc.) 

Course Content 

Context & Overview
  • Digital acceleration, managing complexity in a VUCA world, key challenges faced by organisation
  • The case for Agile: business benefits

Agile is primarily a mindset
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Agile v/s Waterfall
  • 12 Key principles of Agile

Agile frameworks overview
  • Product development and delivery with Scrum, Kanban and DevOps
  • Product management and digital innovation with Design Thinking and Lean Startup
  • New culture of management: Servant Leadership

Agile organisation
  • Scaling Agile
  • Product v/s project-based organisation
  • Agile Organisation Design
  • Agile operating models, governance

Transforming to Agile
  • Principles and best practices
  • Supporting the transformation as a leader
  • Agile adoption phases, tips and traps

Workshop activities
  • Prioritising agile benefits in the company specific context
  • Identifying leverages and possible impediments to agile adoption
  • Aligning on next steps and selecting a pilot
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Target  Audience

This workshop is primarily intended for the top management of an organisation starting its Agile journey. It delivers its best outcome when run with the whole executive committee.   

Trainers

Training will be conducted by an experienced trainer and Agile coach from why innovation!.

Course Information

Each session will be limited to a maximum of 12 participants. 

Duration: half-day (4 hours) 
Location: Singapore, Hong Kong 
*A discount will apply if taken in combination with our other training courses. 

Related Courses

  • Agile for Leaders
  • Agile & Scrum Essentials
  • Scrum Product Owner with PSPO I Certification
  • Scrum Master with PSM I Certification
  • Agile Project Management 
  • Lean Essentials
  • Kanban
  • Agile Requirements Engineering Practitioner
Funding support is available for Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents**. Valid for courses and examinations commencing on or before 31 March 2019. Terms and conditions apply. Please visit http://www.imda.gov.sg/citrep for full details
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Our Locations

Singapore Office
380 Jalan Besar

#08-06/07 ARC 380
​Singapore 209000
Hong Kong Office
Unit D, 11/F, Splendid Centre
​94-108 Larch Street

​Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong

Contact Us

Phone: (SG)+65 6635 6056​  /  (HK)+852 28610855
​Email: contact@why-innovation.com
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