Team Training & Learning

Introduce an Agile Way of Working in your team with customer centricity, cross-functional collaboration, Agile planning and execution, culture-shifting, business agility, people engagement, and resilience to change.

Duration: 8-16 hours (customizable)
Audience: One team or multiple teams in a program or business unit that develop a service or product
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - AGILE WAY OF WORKING

Your team is on a journey to transform their way of working, for example as part of an improvement, Agile or digital transformation initiative. You want to improve customer focus, work practices, team collaboration, people’s mindset, and work environment. How do you change to such a modern work approach?
This training is 100% collaborative and interactive so that all team members can jointly learn, contribute to, and embrace new skills and changes.

This session is for Agile teams that would like to accelerate their Agile journey. Based on the team’s goals, context, current state and current skills, we help to energize, prioritize, retrospect, and prepare for the next steps. In a full-day session, we combine teaming, problem solving, planning, and coaching in order to boost both morale and abilities in a human and pragmatic way.

Duration: 8 hours (customizable)
Audience: One team
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - AGILE WAY OF WORKING

Your team is on a journey to transform their way of working, for example as part of an improvement, Agile or digital transformation initiative. You want to improve customer focus, work practices, team collaboration, people’s mindset, and work environment. How do you change to such a modern work approach?
This training is 100% collaborative and interactive so that all team members can jointly learn, contribute to, and embrace new skills and changes.

Introduce Agile in your marketing team with customer centricity, cross-functional collaboration, Agile planning and execution, culture shifting, agility and resilience to change.

Duration: 0.5-1 day (customizable)
Audience: Marketing teams, sales teams
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - MARKETING AGILIST

You are on a journey to transform your team to an better way of working, for example as part of a Digital Transformation initiative. You want to shift not only the work methods but also the mindset, empowerment and cross-collaboration. How do you transform to this “Agile Way of Working”?
This training has a collaborative and interactive format so that all team members can learn the concepts and practices jointly.

Help your team become agile by introducing Scrum, the most popular agile work method for defining, planning and executing work.

Duration: 2 days
Audience: Teams, Change Agents, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - SCRUM AGILIST

To make an organization truly Agile, your cross-disciplinary teams need to use an Agile lifecycle work method — for requirements elaboration, iteration planning and execution, and continuous improvement. Scrum is the most popular method practised by Agile teams because it prescribes roles, activities and artefacts quite well. With this course you get ready for starting your first iteration called a Scrum “sprint”. During the training course, you gradually fill a rich toolbox of techniques and tools to apply Scrum with success in the real world.

Has your company started a Digital or Agile Transformation journey? How do you reinvent your strategy and practices for people engagement, culture, talent acquisition approach, performance management, and remote working? Master the new way of working and enable partnerships with your agile-digital workforce.

Duration: 8-16 hours (customizable)
Audience: HR/People Teams
Formats: Onsite or live online workshop, courseware licensing/train-the-trainer
(for individuals, an e-learning format is available)
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - PEOPLE AGILIST

What you learn and practise:
✓ Lean-Agile mindset and culture attributes
✓ Lean leadership and Management 3.0
✓ HR reinvention: 'how' and 'what' to undertake in a Digital and Agile world
✓ Culture assessment and behavior shifting
✓ Agile talent acquisition pipeline and job profile mindmapping
✓ Team and performance goal setting with OKRs
✓ Motivation models and engagement surveys (e.g. Pink, Gallup)
✓ New-generation Learning & Development
✓ Agile workspace design

Learn through a hands-on workshop how to use Atlassian Jira and Confluence for Agile and Scrum, including backlog management and grooming, story estimating, sprint setup, sprint planning and progress updating and monitoring.

Duration: 4-8 hours (customizable)
Audience: Any team that develops a product or service, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Coaches
Course formats: Onsite or live online classroom, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - TOOLS AGILIST

Learning Cases and Simulations:
✓ Work items and queries
✓ Initiatives, requirements and stakeholders
✓ Backlog grooming and story writing
✓ Sprint planning and tasks
✓ Status updating
✓ Daily standup meeting
✓ Sprint review meeting

Get an overview of what is involved in enterprise agile and business agility transformation. Decide about value drivers, transformation strategy, roles and responsibilities, planning, and change management.

Duration: 1 day (customizable)
Audience: C-level Executives, Directors, Change Agents, Coaches
Formats: Onsite workshop, live online workshop

Your organization wants to unlock enterprise and business agility, maybe as part of a Digital Transformation initiative. As a leadership team, you have to make far-reaching decisions about how to execute your transformation, affecting culture, structure, methods and tools.
This leadership workshop helps executive teams and change agents to immerse into Enterprise Agile and Agility concepts, develop strategy and plan actions to achieve targeted outcomes.

Introduce organizational and business agility including strategy, culture, structure, leadership, processes and workplace changes.

Duration: 16 hours
Audience: Product/service development teams, Business Owners, Product Owners, Managers, Coaches
Course format: Group onsite, group live online
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - ENTERPRISE AGILIST

You are evangelizing agility throughout your organization and will need to upskill your employees that collaborate in this ecosystem. In a very hands-on manner, this workshop covers the major pillars of enterprise agility: strategy, culture, organization, product innovation, processes, leadership, and the workplace.

Learn how to apply (and adapt!) the Scaled Agile Framework in order to immerse your organization or team into Lean and Agile, and achieve business agility. Drive business agility, alignment and value flow across the organization. Understand the roles, activities, artifacts and interactions at portfolio, solution, ART, and team levels. Practice hands-on the creation of lean portfolios, release trains, and backlogs. Conduct quarterly (PI) planning sessions for Agile delivery execution and integrate DevOps activities.

At agileXL we teach SAFe from a practitioner’s point of view. We add notes, resources and real-life experiences that correspond with your situation. We also provide guidance for the certification exam.

Duration: 16 hours (consecutive or divided in blocks)
Format: Onsite or live online
Audience: Change Agents, Agile Coaches, Product Managers, Product Owners, Executives, Managers, Leads, Agile Project Managers
Certification: SAFe 6 AGILIST (after exam)

Establishing Team Agility for Agile Release Trains

What does it mean to be part of an Agile team on an Agile Release Train (ART) that delivers value to customers? SAFe® for Teams covers the tactical skills to be a high-performing member of an ART. The course also gives you the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. Get the most out of your learning experience by taking it in context with your team and other teams on your Agile Release Train.

SAFe for Teams will teach you all about your role on an Agile team and how your team works with others as part of an ART. You’ll learn how to plan and execute work, how to apply Scaled Agile Framework^® and Agile principles, and how to continuously improve. Taking Scaled Agile Framework^® for Teams with your team will empower all of you with the collective knowledge to collaborate effectively, do the best possible work, and hit the ground running before your next planning event.

At agileXL, we teach SAFe from a practitioner’s point of view. We add notes, resources and real-life experiences that correspond with your situation. We also provide extensive guidance for the certification exam.

Duration: 16 hours (in 2, 3 or 4 blocks)
Format: Onsite or live online
Audience: Agile Teams or teams that want to become agile (both IT and non-IT)
Certification: SAFe 6 PRACTITIONER (after exam)

What skills do you need to deliver value in a Lean enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train. The course also gives you the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

At agileXL we teach SAFe from a practitioner’s point of view. We add notes, resources and real-life experiences that correspond with your situation. We also provide guidance for the certification exam.

Duration: 16 hours (consecutive or divided into blocks)
Format: Onsite or live online
Who will benefit: Product Owners, Product Managers, Product Line Managers, Business Owners, Business Analysts, Solution and Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, and members of the LACE
Certification: SAFe 6 PO/PM (after exam)

Spotify created at some point in time an Agile model that has inspired many organizations in the world including ING, the first Agile bank. This Agile model has become known because of its organization design structure but what has especially helped Spotify succeed is the underlying mindset.

This workshop gives teams the handles and tools to learn from the Spotify Agile model. Rather than taking a copy & paste approach, you’ll learn how to create your own healthy culture, team structures, customer focus, transversal collaboration, distributed leadership, and continuous improvement.

Duration: 8-16 hours (customizable)
Audience: Teams, Coaches, Product Owners, Managers
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - SPOTIFY AGILIST

Achieve high collaboration and effectiveness in your hybrid, remote and distributed agile teams by changing mindset, communication, work methods and tooling.

Duration: 4-8 hours (customizable)
Audience: Executives, Managers, HR, Change Agents, Coaches, Team members
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - REMOTE AGILIST

Your agile teams are working remotely and the dynamics has faded because we are still using the onsite way of working. You may have started to use better conference tools but this is no silver bullet for changing behaviors. In this workshop, leaders can learn how to help their teams become effective again while being remote. You will discover hands-on practices, techniques, and tools.

Enable the shift from “doing agile” to “being agile” by changing mindset and team culture with empowerment, collaboration, continuous learning, and intrinsic motivation.

Duration: 2 days (group workshop) or 12 hours of video (individual e-course)
Audience: Executives, Managers, HR, Change Agents, Coaches, Team members
Formats: Live online group workshop, e-learning course
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - CULTURE AGILIST

Your organization is on an agile/digital journey. You may have started to use an agile method such as Scrum with iterations and backlogs and see some results. However, the real benefits only happen when mindset and culture become agile too, i.e. when you act and behave agile. Only then will teams achieve maximum effectiveness through shared purpose, rapid decision and learning cycles, empowerment and intrinsic motivation.
In this course you learn not only the values and principles, but especially the hands-on steps, techniques, tools and tips that make such changes happen and stick.

This leadership program is designed to let 3-5 small groups of high-potential employees learn and apply lean-agile leadership in the daily work environment of their agile or digital organization.
The program starts with a leadership workshop. After that, using a Design Thinking approach, each group takes on a challenge from their environment and applies new leadership skills during 5 sprints of learning & doing.
Important ingredients include empathy, leadership style, communication, and change management. Participants learn hands-on how to inspire, engage and empower.

Duration: 14-16 hours
Audience: Managers, leads, high-potential employees
Formats: Onsite or live online group workshop & program, train-the-facilitator

Apply human leadership and agility to help teams embrace change and become resilient in the new normal.

Duration: 1 day
Audience: Managers, Leaders, Change Agents, Coaches, Teams
Formats: Onsite or live online team workshop, train-the-trainer
Certified Digital Badge: Agile Professional - CHANGE AGILIST

You are in an organization that experiences significant change, uncertainty, or ambiguity. Traditional mindsets and processes do not support such environments. Instead, we need to instill growth thinking, create elastic teams, and introduce processes that take change into account. In this workshop, you learn how to combine change management science, resilience building techniques, new leadership styles and agile processes in order to tackle changes better in both human and technical terms while achieving the business goals at the same time.

Learn how to apply agile values and principles during product development while complying with FDA, ISO and other regulatory requirements.

Duration: 14 hours
Audience: All product team members
Course format: Group live online or onsite workshop
(for individuals, an e-learning format is available)
Certified Digital Open Badge: Agile Professional - REGULATORY AGILIST

Regulatory environments make the implementation of an agile operating model challenging. This workshop lets participants understand and tackle those challenges. Specific attention is paid to quality systems, design controls, and risk management. As a case, we look at the medical devices but principles and techniques can be applied to any regulated industry sector.