Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™)
Leadership course for those managing agile teams or leading agile organizations exploring the agile leadership mindset, culture, and practices.
Upcoming courses
Course Description
The Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™) training is an immersive exploration of the agile leadership mindset, culture and practices critical for harnessing the power of your organization and re-imaging it in the face of complexity. While focusing on the role of agile executives and leaders, this training provides tools and techniques necessary to transform and sustain the organizational change needed to evolve while continuing to deliver business value.
IncrementOne’s interactive classes are designed to maximize engagement, understanding and retention, blending lecture and classroom discussion with exercises, games, case studies and simulations. Whether online or in-person, leaders work together on practices, exploring their own challenges and developing potential solutions for challenges they bring into the class that they can take further after training.
Every course covers the core learning objectives, while leaving room for deeper conversations led by the questions and scenarios leaders bring up in class. The class includes comprehensive case studies focused on applying leadership concepts and techniques.
Key Concepts
- The leader’s role in creating the culture necessary to enable organizational agility and value creation
- A deep dive into the latest thinking on complexity and how to apply it to how your own organization works
- Understanding principles behind organizational design, their impact on behaviours, results, governance and organizational flow
- Understanding organizational structures and patterns to scale agile practices across multiple teams
- Using the empirical process to transition, support and sustain a learning organization
- Explore and apply tools leaders use when adapting to personal, situational and social awareness
- Use of case studies that show how agile leadership concepts and practices have been applied in real-world scenarios
Agenda
Lean and Agile Primer
- Core principles
- Common approaches
Business Agility
- Agile leadership mindset
- What does Business Agility mean?
- Leadership agility models
Complexity Thinking
- Understanding complexity with Cynefin
- Situational analysis and delivery methods
Organizational Structure & Design
- Understanding organizational value streams
Creating a Learning Organization
- Leveraging the empirical process
- Organizational metrics
- Change management and culture change
Prerequisites
- No prior certification required
- Experience in a leadership role
- Set up of a Zoom and Mural account as per details provided in the registration email (Virtual Classes Only)
- Completion of the pre-course homework included in the pre-course email
Who it's for
- Executives wishing to understand their role and impact on agile environments and culture
- Leaders and managers driving organizational change
- Managers exploring how to help their organization build high performing teams
- Leaders interested in leadership models and complexity thinking
Benefits
- Course qualifies you for 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) and 16 Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
- Registration includes two years of Scrum Alliance membership
- Alumni of the CAL course qualify for access to our coaching support platform, including community forums and additional education aids and templates
- Pre- and post-course emails with recommended readings and videos
- Copy of the workbook as well as of the in-class artifacts
Career Path
One of the best courses I've attended. It helped me understand better the concepts have read and even lived through the lens of the Scrum framework.
Dave's course is clearly the gold standard for Agile training. I will be back for more. I've taken several other product owner courses and training in this subject, and although they were helpful, the methods and execution of this course raised the bar in a major way.
A-CSM with Dave is a beautiful opportunity to bring your scrum knowledge to another level. With a group of other experienced scrum masters, you have the opportunity to talk about the wicked topics that you always wanted to get insights/answers on that are real-world related.
Complete Certified Agile Leadership training with Increment One. Wow! My brain is full, I learned so much. I have been taught many new ideas and practice approaches can ways to approach leadership in an agile or new-to-agile environment. Thanks for the excellent learning experience.
