Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP-1)

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.

What can you expect from this program?

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 proved scaling patterns.

No matter what your situation is today, this program helps you learn from established and proved patterns, select patterns for your unique contexts, solve your current challenges, and evolves 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

Target audience. Who should take this course?
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 maximise everybody’s learning experience during the workshop. The more hands-on experience participants have, the more passion and curiosity participants bring, the more beneficial the workshop will be!

Commitments

• Preparation prior to 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

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 Next Steps for Your Organization

Trainer:
Evelyn Tian
She is a professional Lean and Agile Coach and Trainer. She has over 20 years of product development experience in telecom products, automotive industry, financial sectors and e-commerce products