Certified Agile Skills - Scaling 1™

We lead CAS-S1, CAL, CSPO, and other courses monthly. For a full calendar of upcoming courses click here

Why join us?

Evolve Agility’s Scaling Agile workshop is an experiential deep dive to unravel patterns, practices, and frameworks for large-scale products and projects. This workshop equips you with the foundational toolkit to growing (scaling) a learning organization for knowledge workers.

Agility at scale is not easy. At its heart, it involves people growing a learning culture through trust and collaboration. You will understand the traps many organizations fall into and learn about proven trails (journeys)  that have helped organizations succeed with agile at scale. 

Be prepared to walk away with your action plan to safely revive your organization’s ability to grow real-world agility at scale.

Complexity and Systems Thinking

This is the only agile scaling course that coherently integrates complexity and systems thinking tool sets in its curriculum. You will develop the skills to lead and navigate organizational dynamics with large-scale efforts effectively.

Are you a Knowledge worker?

Agile is best suited to knowledge work. Scaling agile is about amplifying the ability of the organization to learn and adapt faster.

Learn together, grow together.

We recommend management teams join this course together so you can explore your organization’s scaling challenges and use the complexity and systems thinking techniques to strategize on the way forward. Be prepared to walk away with your plan of action.

Interactive activities enable you to incorporate your organization’s challenges in the workshop so you can work through some of the most challenging topics, get expert-level guidance, and own your insights. This course explores the dynamics of product discovery, development, and supporting organizational sub-systems required to enable success at scale. 

Our curriculum will give you hands-on experience with

• Identify common barriers and traps that prevent your organization from learning.
• Manage risk and uncertainty with scaling agile.
• Design organization systems linkages to incrementally develop large products
• Examine organization design choices for Product-led vs. Revenue-led.
• Examine organization design choices for IT as cost-center vs. IT as value-center.
• Design organizations for scaling agile using industry case-scenarios
• Evaluate scaling patterns, practices, frameworks, and methodologies for effectiveness
• Lead large-scale project and product development efforts
• Practically and incrementally move away from Silo-ed work and an “us-vs-them” culture that promotes bureaucratic bloating.
• Explore trials (experiments) and trails (journeys) that fit your organizational circumstances.
• Assess your organizational coherence and discover misalignment in organizational sub-systems.

The Online experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
• Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
• Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

Course Instructor

Dhaval Panchal is an experienced Executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up. He is one of the first to bring Systems & Complexity thinking tools and techniques for transforming teams, and organizations.

Dhaval is now the founder of Evolve Agility that provides Agile training and coaching services to enable his clients to amplify the scale and speed of Agile transformations. He has led large scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains.

What participants say?

“We went above and beyond those expectations and dove deeply into a discussion of organizational philosophy that helped to really motivate what I learned and provide me with a solid understanding to Evangelize within my company. “ - James Fort, Program Manager at Amazon Alexa

“Dhaval is a perceptive thinker with an endless supply of ideas for ways to tackle tough problems. His knowledge of lean thinking is not simple text-book recitation but is genuinely in-depth. I think of him as the "Indiana Jones" of Agile, ready to cut-and-slash his way through whatever challenges he's presented with.” - Douglas Jones, Senior Analyst at Shelter Insurance

“He personified what he was instructing the class to become. His class truly experiences the agile process first-hand.” - Mark Bondonese, Software Development Manager

We lead CAS-S1, CAL, CSPO, and other courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here