Leading Agile Transformations.

Ahmad Fahmy

“Ahmad was very engaging. Well prepared and able to share personal experiences, SME experience/knowledge and related information from books, web, etc. throughout the course. Excellent command of the subject matter and use of the class time. Continuously introducing topics, experimenting, reviewing, and moving forward through the material was very helpful. Ahmad's personal style and facilitation skills kept the learning interactive. This was the first training seminar I attended that I stayed focused throughout the sessions!”

— Karon Saxton

Background.

Organizational change is notoriously difficult. The failure of Agile transformations or any change effort lies not in the methodologies themselves but an incorrect understanding of system dynamics and organizational change. Organizations are not merely changing process, they are changing culture. This interactive two-day training course is designed to introduce the thinking tools and patterns to increase the likelihood of your transformation’s success. This course focuses on the principles and theories that underpin many of the agile practices as well as the principles of organizational change.

Part-course and part-workshop, these two days will not tell you what to do, rather it will tell you how to think about transforming your organization and actionable experiments & next steps for your organization.

The Training.

Subjects Covered.

  • Understanding organizational system dynamics through systems thinking and systems modeling

  • Finding organizational bottlenecks and increasing flow using Queuing Theory, Flow and Kanban

  • Rethinking the role of management by exploring Lean thinking and understanding the role of management in seeing and removing waste.

  • Understanding how we got here by exploring the scaling dilemma and decades of scaling anti patterns

  • Dehumanizing knowledge workers and the loss of drive of knowledge workers and we can reverse that trend

  • Exploring the Taylor mindset Vs the Deming mindset

  • Theory X vs Theory Y

  • Agile Values vs agile methods

  • Understand the contract game dynamic in large organizations

  • From pyramids to circles. Understand past & current organizational design patterns.

  • Roll your own framework through Empirical process control

  • Tailor your method up rather than down

  • Kotter's & Lewin's change models. Learn what they have in common

  • How to use Behavior Stories to determine which behaviors to change

  • Understand the difference between adoption and transformation

Frameworks Introduced.

  • Scrum

  • Kanban

  • Extreme Programming

Participants.

  • Leaders who are looking beyond the fads to introduce sustainable change

  • Department heads

  • CIO's/CTO's

  • Startups looking to “scale-up”

  • Large organizations looking to simplify their organizational structure

  • Agile Coaches & Scrum masters

  • Anyone interested in demystifying agility and organization change