AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified

What is scaling Agile?

 

 

Agility in organizations (i.e. the implementation of an agile approach for product development, business optimization or transformation such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) is usually implemented initially at a local level, e.g. team, department, or project. When successful, it becomes natural to scale the approach to the whole organization to fully achieve the benefits of agility. However, this has proved to be a challenge and several approaches have been developed to govern the extension.

 

 

 

What is the goal of scaling Agile?

 

 

The key goal for scaling agile is to coordinate the activities of several teams working according to agile practices and to support the achievement of the objectives of the whole organization or significant parts of it. The scope of scaling can involve dozens, hundreds, thousands, or more resources.

 

Most agile practices are generally designed and optimized for small teams (e.g. 6 to 12 resources) and provide insufficient or no governance for scaling up. Furthermore, in large organizations, there can be many different agile practices in place (e.g. scrum, Kanban, DevOps) leading to more complexity in coordination and alignment.

 

This drives the demand for governance to scale agility across larger teams and throughout the organization. Scaling agility is a recent yet complex subject that embraces many disciplines.

 

 

 

What are the main factors for scaling Agile?

 

Factors that trigger the decision to scale Agile are:

 

• Implementing agility on large initiatives
• Supporting rapid growth needs
• A complex product with many dependencies
• A need for standardized practices
• Followership or external pressure

 

 

 

 

What is AgileLearn®?

 

 

In this "jungle", it emerges that there is the need for knowledge and competencies to get oriented and master the path to achieve the benefits promised by the "Agile" culture and tools.

 

For this reason, iLEARN has developed the AgileLearn® qualification scheme as depicted below. The scheme provides the certification levels and the related knowledge needed to master Agile concepts, frameworks, methods and practices, both when addressing transformation (e.g. using projects) or business as usual, at small or large-scale adoption levels.

 

 

 

 

The core of the AgileLearn® qualification scheme is the following two levels:

 

• AgileLearn® Agile Master Certified certification
• AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified certification

 

 

The AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified certification focuses on the implementation of agility at scale in a whole organization. It is therefore very interesting for all practitioners involved in this process. Agile coaches/facilitators, experts, project managers, team leaders, process owners, service managers, and business managers are only some examples of roles that could benefit from this qualification.

 

 

 

 

 

AGILELEARN SCALED AGILE MASTER CERTIFIED COURSE

 

 

AgileLearn Scaled Agile Master Certified certification helps you understand how to use the Agile frameworks and practices in synergy in a scaled environment and how to design and govern the deployment of agility at scale in organizations. Moreover, the course prepares the participants for the Scaled Agile Master Certified exam to obtain the corresponding Scaled Agile Master Certified certification.

 

 

The main objective of this course is to give you the means to define, according to your situation, your objectives and the resources at your disposal, the most appropriate approach to adopt an Agile way of thinking and acting and possibly to make a transition to an Agile organizational mode.

 

 

 

Objectives

 

 

Individuals participating in this course will achieve the following benefits:

 

• Gain a “big picture” of agility at scale
• Understand the mechanisms of scaling
• Discover the decision and structuring factors for deciding to scale up
• Know the barriers and opportunities to scaling
• Design and govern the deployment of agility at scale in organizations
• Gain an understanding and study the main Agile frameworks aimed at supporting agility at scale
• Understand how to synergically use the Agile frameworks and practices in a scaled environment
• Better understanding and communication with teams, professionals, and management using several scaled Agile frameworks and practices
• Know how to prepare and support implementation
• Know the alternatives
• Prepare the certification test

 

 

Who is aimed at:

 

 

• Project teams in charge of scaling agility or having to support it
• Anyone interested in successfully scaling Agile approaches in an organization

 

 

 

Contents:

 

 

• Introduction to the course
  • Learning Objectives
  • Course Agenda
  • Course Approach
  • Exam Structure
• Discovering Scaled Agile
  • Back to basics
  • A brief history of scaled agile
  • Differences between single and multi-team operations
• Scaled Product Ownership
  • Principles of Scaled Product Ownership
  • Scaled Product Mapping
  • Scaled Product Refinement
  • Scaled Product Review
  • Scaled Product Backlog
• Scaled Development Flow
  • Scaled Development Flow Overview
  • Scaled Iteration Events
  • Scaled Practices
• Scaled Culture & Mindset
  • Organizational Agile Culture
  • Agile Leadership
  • Agile Mindset
• Scaling up organization
  • Scaling Up Organization
  • Product Governance
  • Teams Alignment
  • Knowledge Management
  • Teams, Projects, Programs and Portfolio Management
  • Agile Transformation
• Frameworks overview (e.g. NEXUS, LeSS, SOS, S@SCALE, DAD, DSDM, SAFe, Flex, Shift)
  • Introduction
  • Scaled Agile Frameworks
  • Comparative Review
• Implementing Agile at scale
  • Before Scaling Up
  • Structuring Factors for Scaling Up
  • Scaling Up Strategies
  • Risks Factors
• Exam Preparation
  • Exam structure
  • How to read the test
  • Exam tactics

 

 

 

 

 

 

AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified Exam Format

 

• 60 multiple choice questions
• Closed book
• Duration of 60 minutes  (15 minutes extra for non-native speakers)
• Passing score: 39/60 marks - 65%
• Two exam attempts included (to be taken within one year from purchase)

 

 

 

Prerequisites

 

To access the AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified course and exam students must have obtained the AgileLearn® Agile Master Certified qualification or advanced qualifications related to other Agile frameworks (contact us to verify your eligibility).

 

 

 

PDU - AGILELEARN SCALED AGILE MASTER CERTIFIED

 

This AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified training course can provide 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for holders of PMI certifications who need credits for their maintenance. Here below you can find more details about the PDUs allocation for the AgileLearn® Scaled Agile Master Certified course:

 

• Technical: 8
• Leadership: 4
• Strategic: 4

 

 

 

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