Open Agile Adoption Practitioner Training

Open Agile Adoption™ promises the most rapid design, development and lasting adoption of a culture of agility in your organization through a disciplined and structured removal of the obstacles and barriers to the inherent brilliance and hunger for learning and mastery already present in your people.

This "training" is really an immersive experience into quick competence at this simple and resilient method that encourages the individuals in your organizations to find what works for them as you move towards agility. It is an effective antidote, and a wonderfully effective solution for the mediocre and painfully wasteful results that attend your typical old fashioned process "roll out" or "mandated change".

Open Agile Adoption™ is not an exclusive prescription. A freely available Open Source licensed process itself, OAA™ plays well with Scrum, Kanban, Lean, eXtreme Programming, SAFe™, or just about any other Agile practice or tool. But rather than prescribe, Open Agile Adoption™ offers a simple resilient structure that invites the individuals and teams to their own innate drive towards mastery, autonomy, and purpose so they feel ownership of whatever processes and tools will work - even if it means all the typical Agile frameworks, or if it means none of them. The individuals and teams in your organizations will be eager to learn and experiment until they find what works for them.

Open Agile Adoption™ is informed by the best of social technologies of transformation including Open Space Technology, Tavistock Group Relations, Improvisation, and Rites of Passage. This immersive training will take advantage of the theory, tools, and practice in order to teach. You will get direct experience using Open Agile Adoption in this training. If you just want a lecture, stay home!

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Course Objective

Learn and experience the Open Agile Adoption™ method such that the student can comprehend and immediately apply it for lasting Agile adoptions in their organizations.

Course Overview

This is a 2-day experiential course on creating rapid and lasting Agile adoptions across multiple teams, using the Open Agile Adoption™ technique as described in the book THE OPEN AGILE ADOPTION HANDBOOK by Daniel Mezick. The class itself will be a simulated Open Agile Adoption, using the tools and techniques of OAA™ for direct hands on experience using OAA™ for systemic change.

What You Will Learn:

Agile adoptions fail without high levels of human engagement. This course teaches how to achieve very high levels of engagement in your Agile adoption, leading to strong and measurable improvements in morale, productivity, quality & predictability.

During this course participants will:

Gain an understanding of the cultural dynamics of adopting Agile
Learn how to apply the Open Agile Adoption method to stabilize ongoing & troubled Agile adoptions
Learn how to rapidly implement Agile to create a high-performance organization
Learn how to customize and tailor the flexible Open Agile Adoption method to fit their organizational context and circumstances
Learn how to create a rapid and lasting Agile adoption

Who Should Attend:

Coaches, Team members, and Managers who want to learn a better path to agility;
Executives & Progressive Leaders who want more of the benefits and less of the pain of a typical Agile adoption, or who need to restart a stalled one;

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Takeaways for Each Student:

Every student receives:

The Open Agile Adoption Handbook
A certificate of completion
90 days of personal coaching (up to 1 hour via telephone or video conferencing and unlimited email)

The course provides everything you need to GET GOING NOW with Open Agile Adoption. Each of the takeaways are discussed below

The Open Agile Adoption Handbook

The handbook provides ABC, step-by-step guidance on how to execute an Agile Adoption using the Open Agile Adoption method. This book is written by Daniel Mezick and includes a tutorial, reference guide, Frequently Asked Questions (the “FAQ”), forms and checklist, and some of the earliest Open Agile Adoption case studies. The book is a user’s manual on preparation, planning and execution of the Open Agile Adoption technique.

The Certificate of Completion

Everyone who attends this course receives a certificate of completion which attests to the fact the student has successfully participated in the workshop. This course is a prerequisite that qualifies the student to attend more in-depth training in Open Agile Adoption and become certified as a practitioner if and when such a course becomes available.

Ninety Days of Support from Harold Shinsato

Every student receives the certificate of completion, 90 days of support after the class with up to 1 hour by phone or video conferencing and unlimited email. Those considering using Open Agile Adoption to implement an Agile adoption after the class can use this feature to ask questions, get answers, and receive specific guidance after the class.

Course Outline

This course is based on the published class syllabus which can be read in it's entirety, along with additional background information about Open Agile Adoption, at OpenAgileAdoption.com. In order to optimize your learning, we will be applying Open Agile Adoption to learn the method.

OAA normally takes 100 days, so this will be a compressed simulation to fit into 2 days. We will follow all the steps including:

Leadership Preparation
Theme crafting to invite the organization to the first Open Space event
An actual mini Open Space to kick off the Open Agile Adoption
“100 days to Enterprise Agility”, the bulk of the class, will explore and deepen your understanding of the method by using (rather than lecturing about) the theory, tools, and techniques of Open Agile Adoption using Improv games, “Liberating Structures” (Lipmanowicz et. al.) and ideas from Sharon Bowman's “Training from the Back of the Room”
A second mini Open Space to assess progress, illuminate and deepen. “Escape Velocity” by directing your learning towards action beyond the class

We will be using role playing, including NPC's (non-player characters), to ensure we get to experience and play with the typical characters (roles) that show up.

In addition, for the brave who “opt-in”, there will be an opportunity for you to directly engage with internal and external authority, using the ideas and clarity from the social sciences, especially Tavistock Group Relations. Authority and authorization is a fundamental building block of Open Agile Adoption, Open Space, and, well all organizations.

About the Instructor:

Jon Jorgensen

Harold Shinsato is an agile coach-developer and culture hacker. As Executive Director of Montana Agile Culture House, he has helped facilitate culture change in Western Montana through the use of Open Space Technology (OST) and other unconference derivatives of OST. Harold has helped bring culture change through Open Space to SAP, Intuit, Capital One, MIT's Medicine Hackathons, the University of Montana, and beyond. Harold is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. He has years of Open Space facilitation experience and sits on board of the Open Space Institute. Harold has over a decade of Agile experience that includes bringing eXtreme Programming to software teams, being a Scrum Master, giving presentations at Agile conferences like Agile 2011, Agile CultureCon, and AgileOpen events, and multiple trainings from Agile Learning Labs & the Agile Coaching Institute. Harold has been trained and mentored directly by the originator of Open Agile Adoption, Daniel Mezick, as well as being collaborators on multiple projects. Harold is the first certified Open Agile Adoption trainer after the founder.

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