The Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) is tailored to organizational leaders, managers, and anyone wanting to ramp up agile scaling results.

Scaling agile has been one of the hottest topics over the past decades, one of the most invested areas by companies and individuals, and scaling skills is one of the most thought-after skills across industries globally.

Unlike prescriptive scaling frameworks or scaled methodologies, this program equips participants with the skills and knowledge to help them identify and explore pattern-based and principle-informed approaches that apply to your organization’s unique and evolving context. Suppose you are curious about agile at scale, and puzzled with current prescriptive frameworks implemented in your organization. In that case, you have come to the right place – join the Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) program.

What can you expect from this program?

First, this is NOT yet another framework or another methodology about scaling, and it doesn’t come with a long list of certified programs. This program is not as simple as “picking”, or “implementing” a new framework or a methodology.

Instead, this program is a very hands-on workshop which focuses on pattern-based and principle-informed approaches where organizations draw from recognized and proved scaling patterns.

No matter what your situation is today, this program helps you learn from established and proved patterns, select patterns for your unique contexts, solve your current challenges, and evolves agility at scale, through hands-on exercises and case studies.

You will be able to –

• Build the right mindset for scaling
• Develop the skills needed to evaluate approaches to scaling
• Decide when to Scale and why to Scale
• Equip you with the foundational toolkit
• Understand the need to evolve your scaling approach
• Appreciate pattern-based approach in enhancing the effectiveness of current framework and methodology adoption
• Evaluate and select patterns in organizations
• Relate patterns, scaffolds and frameworks to advance to the desired next step
• Explore the use of ‘scaffolding’ to aid organizations in moving in the desired direction
• Lead large-scale product development efforts
• Evolving agility at scale in an agile way
• Live, immersive exercises to build scaling skills
• Membership with the Scrum Alliance

Who should take this course?

This course is for:

• Managers at all levels in companies that might have implemented a prescriptive framework
• Program and project managers, and/or agile delivery leads
• Agile coaches and consultants
• Portfolio managers, product managers and product owners
• Anyone who works on agile adoption
• Anyone who embodies change

Although the program does not require prior learning, participants should go through the preparation materials to maximise everybody’s learning experience during the workshop. The more hands-on experience participants have, the more passion and curiosity participants bring, the more beneficial the workshop will be!

Commitments

• Preparation prior to the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes (or 120 minutes if no prior learning) on average
• 2-day (or 3 half day) workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops

Course Content

• Scaling Essentials
  • What is Scaling? What and Why?
  • When to Scale and When Not to Scale?
  • Scaling Scenario
  • ScalED vs ScalING vs DEScaling
  • Scaling Philosophy
• Patterns, Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
  • What is a pattern? Why patterns?
  • Introduction to Established and Proved Patterns
  • Hands-on: Evaluate and Select Patterns for Your Context
  • Recognizing Anti-Patterns
  • Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
  • Hands-on: Appraise and Create Scaffolds for Your Context
  • Lifecycle of Patterns and ScaffoldsAssessing Group’s Context and Needs
• Scaling Frameworks
  • Relationship between frameworks and patterns
  • Advancing with pattern-based approaches
• Scaling Challenges
  • Challenges and complexity
  • Organizational Uniqueness
  • Case Studies to learn to overcome challenges at scale
• Organizational Change Management and Scaling Agility
  • Scaling successfully and sustainably
  • Align scaling efforts with your enterprise strategy
• Design and Summarize Next Steps for Your Organization

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The Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) is tailored to organizational leaders, managers, and anyone wanting to ramp up agile scaling results.

Scaling agile has been one of the hottest topics over the past decades, one of the most invested areas by companies and individuals, and scaling skills is one of the most thought-after skills across industries globally.

Unlike prescriptive scaling frameworks or scaled methodologies, this program equips participants with the skills and knowledge to help them identify and explore pattern-based and principle-informed approaches that apply to your organization’s unique and evolving context. Suppose you are curious about agile at scale, and puzzled with current prescriptive frameworks implemented in your organization. In that case, you have come to the right place – join the Certified Agile Scaling Professional (CASP) program.

What can you expect from this program?

First, this is NOT yet another framework or another methodology about scaling, and it doesn’t come with a long list of certified programs. This program is not as simple as “picking”, or “implementing” a new framework or a methodology.

Instead, this program is a very hands-on workshop which focuses on pattern-based and principle-informed approaches where organizations draw from recognized and proved scaling patterns.

No matter what your situation is today, this program helps you learn from established and proved patterns, select patterns for your unique contexts, solve your current challenges, and evolves agility at scale, through hands-on exercises and case studies.

You will be able to –

• Build the right mindset for scaling
• Develop the skills needed to evaluate approaches to scaling
• Decide when to Scale and why to Scale
• Equip you with the foundational toolkit
• Understand the need to evolve your scaling approach
• Appreciate pattern-based approach in enhancing the effectiveness of current framework and methodology adoption
• Evaluate and select patterns in organizations
• Relate patterns, scaffolds and frameworks to advance to the desired next step
• Explore the use of ‘scaffolding’ to aid organizations in moving in the desired direction
• Lead large-scale product development efforts
• Evolving agility at scale in an agile way
• Live, immersive exercises to build scaling skills
• Membership with the Scrum Alliance

Who should take this course?

This course is for:

• Managers at all levels in companies that might have implemented a prescriptive framework
• Program and project managers, and/or agile delivery leads
• Agile coaches and consultants
• Portfolio managers, product managers and product owners
• Anyone who works on agile adoption
• Anyone who embodies change

Although the program does not require prior learning, participants should go through the preparation materials to maximise everybody’s learning experience during the workshop. The more hands-on experience participants have, the more passion and curiosity participants bring, the more beneficial the workshop will be!

Commitments

• Preparation prior to the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes (or 120 minutes if no prior learning) on average
• 2-day (or 3 half day) workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops

Course Content

• Scaling Essentials
  • What is Scaling? What and Why?
  • When to Scale and When Not to Scale?
  • Scaling Scenario
  • ScalED vs ScalING vs DEScaling
  • Scaling Philosophy
• Patterns, Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
  • What is a pattern? Why patterns?
  • Introduction to Established and Proved Patterns
  • Hands-on: Evaluate and Select Patterns for Your Context
  • Recognizing Anti-Patterns
  • Scaffolds and Scaling Agility
  • Hands-on: Appraise and Create Scaffolds for Your Context
  • Lifecycle of Patterns and ScaffoldsAssessing Group’s Context and Needs
• Scaling Frameworks
  • Relationship between frameworks and patterns
  • Advancing with pattern-based approaches
• Scaling Challenges
  • Challenges and complexity
  • Organizational Uniqueness
  • Case Studies to learn to overcome challenges at scale
• Organizational Change Management and Scaling Agility
  • Scaling successfully and sustainably
  • Align scaling efforts with your enterprise strategy
• Design and Summarize Next Steps for Your Organization

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The Certified Facilitator (CF) program is to grow participants’ mindset, knowledge and ability in the area of professional facilitation. Effectively facilitating a group or team toward co-created, meaningful and committed outcomes is a core agile coaching competency as well asa a skill necessary for effective leadership.

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After Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-1) program, you start to practice and dance, and you build deeper desire to understand agile capabilities to dominate the market, deliver maximum value to customers, and achieve their goals.

Support your organization with agile leadership skills that drive those capabilities.

In the Certified Agile Leader® 2 course, you’ll find out how to expand your earlier agile leadership learning to organizational structure, design, strategy, delivery, and further advance your own professional growth.

Certified Agile Leadership 2 (CAL 2)

In CAL 2, you’ll deepen your understanding of the key capabilities, behaviors, and practices of agile leadership, learning how to drive rapid adaptation, customer focus, and responsiveness to change across your organization.

Building on the foundation of CAL 1, the CAL 2 program helps you understand how to deliver greater value to customers, execute organizational strategies effectively, and lead people and teams toward desired outcomes using agile leadership principles.

This workshop is designed for passionate leaders looking to elevate themselves, their teams, and their organizations to the next level.

Who should take this workshop?

The program is beneficial to:

• Managers in organizations where agile and scrum transformation takes place
• Product leaders, delivery leads, project leaders, and leaders of all kinds who are passionate about growing self-leadership and supporting teams, products and organizations
• Agile Coaches, change leaders who want to develop themselves and support their leaders and organizations
• Pre-requisite – participants to CAL 2 should have completed CAL 1 program. If you don’t have CAL 1 yet, please reach out to us for Certified Agile Leadership pathway program, which includes both CAL 1 and CAL 2 programs.

Inclusives:

1. Scrum Alliance CAL 2 certifications.

2. 18 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

Workshop Topics

• Organizational Structure and Design
  • Vision, Mission, Values, Culture and Org Performance
  • Org strategy and execution
  • Org structure and design principles and application
  • Org culture and value delivery
• Organization Transformation
  • Org structure and transformation
  • Value and metrics for continuous value delivery and structure enhancements
  • Change management to achieve strategy execution
• Leadership Competencies
  • People management and development
  • Decision-making to a collaborative leader
  • Advance with feedback for others and self-improvement
  • Navigating through conflicts
  • Influence for outcome
  • Taking self-leadership to the next level
• Next steps

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Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and other Agile techniques are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum.

Are you ready to take your knowledge and skillset in your role as Product Owner to the next level? If so, it’s time to elevate your career further by earning the Certified Scrum Professional®-Product Owner (CSP®-PO) certification. Solidify your approaches for validating product assumptions, learn advanced interactions with customers and users and master advanced Product Backlog management.

Through the CSP-PO course, you’ll learn:

• Growing in the Role of Product Owner
  • Product Owner as Product Champion
    • Product Ownership and Organization Setup
    • Product Owner manifesto
  • Advanced Stakeholder Management
    • Facilitating sessions with conflicting opinions
    • Working with difficult stakeholders
    • Enhancing stakeholder collaboration techniques
  • Working with multiple Scrum Teams
    • Launching multiple Scrum Teams
    • Quality expectations while working with multiple teams
    • Competence growth and expectations
    • Product backlog management across multiple teams
    • Facilitating large scale participatory meetings
  • Designing interactive learning contents about product ownership
• Implement Purpose and Strategy
  • Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices
    • Analyze different business models
    • Develop your own business model
    • Calculate opportunity size
  • Construct competitive analysis
  • Product Economics
    • Determining profitability
    • Calculating the cost of delay (CoD)
    • Funding of agile product development
  • Complex Product Planning and Forecasting
    • Developing a product plan
    • Defining a strategic and multi-team product roadmap
    • Developing a release strategy
• Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users
  • Advanced Customer Research
    • Customer development
    • Integrating customer into product development
  • Advanced Product Discovery
    • Comparing different customer research and product discovery techniques
    • Complex Product Assumption Validation
      • Evaluating different validation plans
      • Continuous revising plans based on validation results
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Further differentiating outcome and output
  • Defining value – strategy and options
  • Ordering product backlog
    • Comparing various prioritization techniques
    • Deciding prioritization strategy for your product
  • Refining product backlog to deliver customer value
    • Competence, risks, uncertainties, and efficiency
    • Improving customer engagement to refine Product Backlog

The workshop focuses on the advancement of Product Ownership, though theory introduction and exercise to gain hands-on experiment on the advanced skills of Scrum Product Owner role. Upon completion of the workshop, you will be ready to start your journey to become a Certified Scrum Professional with Product Owner speciality!

More information: Read more about the course from here

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Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and other Agile techniques are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in the art of Scrum.

Are you ready for the next level of experience and expertise in the art of Scrum? If so, it’s time to elevate your career further by earning the Certified Scrum Professional®-ScrumMaster (CSP®-SM) certification.

Learn to find practical solutions and improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace.

Who should take this course?

This course is for:

• Advanced Certified ScrumMasters (A-CSM) who are are looking for the next level of growth.
• ScrumMasters who have Scrum experience for close to two years;
• Managers who want to better support their teams;
• Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach

Our CSP-SM program is designed with deep learning for those who want to advance themselves to the next level of agile coaching, including the practitioners who want to advance to Certified Team Coach (CTC) and/or Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC).

Participants should be passionate in advancing as a ScrumMaster and an Agile coach, and therefore be willing to challenge their own thinking and approaches within this course.

All attendees must have the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster certification (A-CSM) and with practice prior to the Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster (CSP-SM) workshop.

Course content

• Advanced Coaching
  • Advanced Coaching Skills and their application
  • Coaching Tools
• Advanced Coaching + Advanced Facilitation
  • Coaching Application with Responsibility Process
  • Coaching Assumptions and Agreement
  • Alternatives to Open Discussion
  • Visual Facilitation
  • Remote Facilitation
• A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum
  • Key Lean Principles and Concepts
  • Assessing Waste at All Levels
  • Applications in Scrum Framework and Organization Transformation
• Services to Development Team
  • Different Methods to Assess Existing Teams
  • Team Performance Curve (and Tuckman Model comparison)
  • Coaching Team via Team Development Profile
  • Coaching Team via Drexler-Sibbet Model
  • 5 Dysfunctions of Teams
  • Starting and Growing New Agile Teams
  • Coaching Team on Software Craftsmanship
• Services to Product Owner
  • Creation and Revision of Product Vision and Strategy
  • Complex Product Backlog Management
  • Product Owner Support
• Services to Organization
  • Complex Adaptive System
  • Effective Culture Change (concepts and tools)
  • Organization Change via contrasting different models
  • Organization Change Pattern Analysis
  • Scaling – Growing Organization
• Personal Development
  • Case Study – how to approach different coaching scenarios (theory into practice)
  • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
  • Design of Individual Learning and Capability Goals and Follow-up
  • Next Steps

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As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.

As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”

Who should take the course?

This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.

• Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
• Product management and portfolio management professionals
• Project management professionals
• Business stakeholders
• UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
• Product development team members
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.

Course Content

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corrsponding strategy
• Empathizing Customers and Users
  • Perform customer research
  • Interview and tips for insightful interview
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  • Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
  • Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
  • Compare different HDD approaches
  • Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
  • Develop HDD and design validation plans
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy
  • Developing product vision and strategies
  • Advanced roadmapping and its development
  • Advanced product planning and forecasting
  • Release planning
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Model and measure value for product
  • Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
  • Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
  • Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
  • Mindset of a Product Owner
    • Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
  • Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
  • Advanced stakeholder collaboration
    • Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
    • Stakeholder management techniques
    • Collaboration methods and decision making with stakeholders
  • Advanced Development Team collaboration
    • Define technical debts
    • Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
    • Practice value maximization per sprint
  • Collaboration with multiple development
    • Recognize scaling manifestos
    • List scaling frameworks
    • Working with dependencies
• Next steps for product owners

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This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX infrastructure. This course introduces you to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your VMware NSX environment. (veel …)

This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.

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Program:

• • Introduction to Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Tools
  • Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
  • Troubleshooting Storage
  • Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
  • Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
  • Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe troubleshooting principles and procedures
• Use the vSphere Client, the command line, and log files to configure, diagnose, and correct problems in vSphere
• Explain the key vSphere log files from troubleshooting perspective
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
• Identify the networking issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
• Identify the storage issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
• Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) problems and provide solutions
• Trouble virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connectivity problems
• Identify VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios, and find resolutions
• Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components

More information:

• Read more about the course here.

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This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the NSX 4.0.0.1 and NSX 4.0.1 releases, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more.

Prerequisites:

• Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
• Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2 through L3) and L2 through L7 firewall
• Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
• Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® environments

Program:

• Course Introduction
• VMware Virtual Cloud Network and VMware NSX
• Preparing the NSX Infrastructure
• NSX Logical Switching
• NSX Logical Routing
• NSX Bridging
• NSX Firewalls
• NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
• NSX Services
• NSX User and Role Management
• NSX Federation

Target audience: Experienced security administrators or network administrators
Learning methods: Practical exercise, independent work.
Assesment methods: Execution of independent work.
Assesment form: Independent practical tasks on relevant topics.

More information:

• Read more about the course from here.

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