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Delivery at Scale provides you with Portfolio Management and Program Management approaches to maximize the value produced by your products. The class will introduce the subject of scaling and will provide a high-level review of various approaches to scaling development within your organization. In large, complex organizations, traditional Agile practices such as Scrum do not work well with large, diverse, teams and products. This course will provide tools to your organization to maximize the value of its investments while supporting large products and teams.
Learning Topics - 18hrs
Session 1
OPTIMIZE THE SYSTEM
» Complexity as enemy number one
» Making sense of complex environments
» Visualizing flow through the system
» System constraints
Session 2
GOVERNANCE AND
AGILE AT SCALE
» Good governance in an Agile context
» Enablers for good Agile governance
» Why scale?
» Scaling process is not always the answer
» Frameworks for scaling agility
Session 3
AGILE AT SCALE
» Frameworks for scaling agility
» Build your own framework
Session 4
STRUCTURE THE ORGANIZATION
FOR EFFECTIVE OUTCOMES
» Organizational maturity
» Small world network vs. hierarchy
» Organize around value stream
» Transitioning functional managers to other roles
» Importance of transparency
Session 5
CULTURE, ALIGNMENT, AND
TRADEOFFS
» Why focus on culture
» Habits of an Agile culture
» Culture of optimizing for the whole
» The case for alignment
» Ways to foster alignment
» Making tradeoffs
Session 6
COMMUNICATING VALUE AND PROGRESS
» Tracking and measuring value at scale
» Ordering work items economically
» Examples of large-scale metrics
» Sustaining continuous improvement