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The Case for Business Agility - a self-paced online learning course

Description

This adaptive learning online course looks at the concept of Business Agility.

Business Agility is about equipping organisations to deal with the increasing complexity of the world in general and product development in particular. Climate change, the return of war to Europe and the Middle East, geopolitical tensions in the South China sea, trade wars, logistical supply chain disruption, global cost of living and cost of energy crises intersect with the rapid rise of disruptive technologies such as 3D printing, quantum computing and generative AI. Product development is dominated by uncertainty and risk.

The relative predictability of twentieth century production is long gone. Organisations need new behaviours, new mindsets and a new organisational culture in order to thrive today. Changing organisation culture usually involves changing organisational structure.

Agile adoption involves a paradigm shift, but ‘Agile’ is not an end in itself. It is the means to delivering maximum business value in the face of unrelenting change.

Why This Course?

·        Upgrade your Product Owners’ skills – understand the context in which the Scrum framework operates

·        Understand the need for rapid experimentation – as typical practice for dealing with complexity

·        Recognise the importance of efficiency in the flow of value - and how an overfocus on resource efficiency can have a negative impact

·        Familiarise yourself with the Agile Manifesto – its four values and the twelve principles behind them. And why applying them is a challenge.

Who is This Course Suitable For?

Whether a Product Owner, Product Manager, Portfolio Manager, Program Manager or a Business Analyst, or someone who needs to understand Agile product development, then this course is for them.

What They’ll Come Away With

After completing this adaptive learning course, attendees will have learned that Business Agility is essential for organisations to survive and thrive in the conditions of 21^st century product development.

They’ll be able to:

·        Define Business Agility

·        Understand that Business Agility is impossible without Agile product development

·        Explain the meaning of the VUCA acronym when applied to business

·        Use the Cynefin framework to understand its domains (Clear, Complicated, Complex and Chaotic), their different decision-making models, and their different typical practices

·        Understand why the tools and techniques of the twentieth century that assume high levels of predictability are no longer effective

·        Explain how modern companies suffer from the hangover of Taylorism

·        Recognise that Agile transformation is not merely about changes in practice but requires new behaviours, mindsets, organisational culture and organisational structure

What Topics are Covered?

The ‘The Introduction to Business Agility’ course has three modules, with a total of 20 learning objectives and 102 probes.

The Case for Business Agility

·        What is meant by ‘Business Agility’

·        Understanding the causes of accelerating rates of change in 21^st Century product development

·        Why twentieth century approaches are decreasingly effective

·        Delivering maximum customer value in the face of rapid change

21^st Century Product Development: Dealing with Complexity

·        Cynefin- a sense-making framework to support leadership decision-making framework

·        Emergent practice as characteristic of the Complex domain

·        The significance of ‘Confusion’ in the Cynefin framework

·        Why efficiency in the flow of value trumps resource efficiency

·        Agile approaches move product development from the Complex domain to the Complicated domain – making things less risky and more predictable

Agile Values and Principles

·        The Agile Manifesto and its relevance today

·        The four values of Agile product development

·        The twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto

·        Why the acquisition of Business Agility involves a paradigm shift

What the Course Includes:

·        High-quality instruction with slideshows and short videos supported by an audible coach’s text, created by Agile expert and Certified Scrum Trainer, Alan O’Callaghan

·        Multiple probes for each Learning Objective

·        Immediate feedback to answers, including remediation where appropriate

Different pricing models apply depending on the size of your organisation. Please contact maria@emerald-hill.co.uk to book a conversation.