Enterprise Agility: Align Culture & Structure to Deliver Results
Course snapshot
Prerequisites: None, although some basic familiarity with scrum is recommended
Course overview
About this course
By the end of this enterprise agility course, you'll be able to assess complex organizational challenges, including system friction, structure, and culture, analyze resistance patterns and formulate data-driven intervention strategies, and develop systemic structures and feedback mechanisms, such as Communities of Practice (CoPs), to sustain organizational agility.
Key takeaways:
Analyze the connection between culture and structure to shift mindsets
Use systems-thinking principles to assess complex organizational challenges
Identify and mitigate resistance patterns with targeted interventions
Conduct professional organizational assessments to uncover system friction
Design adaptive, iterative roadmaps that thrive on feedback and results
Develop systemic structures like Communities of Practice (CoPs) to sustain agility
Average time to complete: 8 hours
Format: Live, instructor-led.
Credential: Microcredential
Prerequisites: None. This is an advanced-level agile coaching course. Prior experience and/or knowledge in agile coaching is strongly recommended.
What you'll get: Eight hours of live learning, SEUs, and a badge to showcase your advanced agile coaching skills.
Receive a two-year Scrum Alliance membership upon completing the course.
Who is this course for?
This course is for leaders and change agents ready to move beyond team-level coaching to drive enterprise-wide transformation.
Agile coaches and consultants aiming for enterprise-level impact
Agile coaches planning to take the Certified Agile Coach exam
Leaders and executives navigating complex organizational friction
Change agents moving from linear planning to iterative, adaptive strategies
Scrum masters and product owners ready to influence broader structures
Organizational designers focused on culture-shifting and scaling agility
Course modules
Explain systems-thinking principles and their relevance in uncovering patterns and constraints within an agile organization.
Apply systems-thinking concepts to design a structured organizational assessment approach (e.g., interview maps, hypothesis areas, feedback loops).
Analyse organisational assessment data to identify meaningful patterns and insights that support continuous improvement.
Conduct an organizational assessment and reflect on key learnings.
Compare the core concepts, phases, and applications of three foundational change management models to select the appropriate framework for a specific organizational complexity.
Demonstrate how experiments impact the way change unfolds from an agile perspective
Evaluate a current organizational strategy for potential sources of resistance to provide at least three mitigation approaches.
Analyze constraints and dependencies to design an adaptive, iterative roadmap that incorporates feedback loops and metrics.
Analyze the connection between culture ("how we act") and structure ("how we are organized") to distinguish the specific changes needed to truly shift mindsets.
Analyze organizational capability and gaps to determine coaching interventions that support shifting from growth to true organizational development.
Assess the relationship between psychological safety, culture, and structure to drive value for the customer, employee, and organization.
Design a coaching plan that can foster an organizational culture of continuous learning.
Examine the balance of team autonomy and product alignment to tailor coaching approaches that optimize value delivery.
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
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The course focuses on analyzing the link between an organization's structure and its culture to identify the changes needed to truly shift mindsets and sustain agility.
Instead of following a rigid "recipe" or linear plan, you will learn to use systems thinking and safe-to-fail experiments to navigate the uncertainty of complex environments.
It is a structured approach using tools like interview maps and hypothesis areas to identify meaningful patterns, constraints, and insights within an agile organization.
You will learn to analyze resistance patterns not as problems but as data. This allows you to formulate intervention strategies that address the root causes of friction.
You'll learn to design adaptive, iterative roadmaps. These are built on feedback loops and metrics rather than fixed dates, allowing the strategy to evolve as the change unfolds.
This is considered an advanced-level agile coaching course. Agile coaching experience, or completion of a previous Scrum Alliance agile coaching course, is recommended.
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