Agile Kata Pro (AKP) (Agile Kata)

The Agile Kata is Pattern to Increase Business Agility, Steer Agile Transformations and a Practice for Agile Teams. The current track record of agile transformations is not very promising. 75% of all agile transformations fail to achieve their goals and therefore missing out on the huge positive impact it has on employee engagement, customer satisfaction, operational performance and time-to-market (McKinsey 2022). Is it because companies see Agile as a business process update and not as a cultural shift?

Is Business Agility a huge buzzword in your organisation, which is difficult to break down into digestible pieces? Or, are your existing agile teams looking for new ways of triggering organisational change or looking for a new way of working? The list of challenges can be long.

The Agile Kata is versatile and can provide answers to these common questions and challenges. It combines a proven practice, which has been applied for decades in lean manufacturing, with a clear alignment to agile values and principles. See how scientific thinking and practical hands-on application work well together in this 1-day course. Walk away with an understanding that the Agile Kata is not an off-the-shelf process product, but a pattern that helps you create your own process, specific to your organisational needs and goals.

Audience

This introductory course is ideal for agile coaches, leaders and change agents that work or lead agile teams or organizations to more agility.

Course Format

The unique training can be delivered in-person or live virtual.

Course Objectives

• Understand and practice the basic pattern of the Agile Kata.
• Learn techniques that inject agility into the Agile Kata.
• Recognize how the Agile Kata can be a power-tool for agile transformations.
• Apply the Agile Kata in common agile transformation scenarios.
• Learn how existing Agile/Scrum teams can benefit from the Agile Kata.
• Perform the Agile Kata for product and process improvements using a case study.
• Understand the role of an Agile Coach in the Agile Kata.
• Define a first step to increase business agility in your organization using the Agile Kata.

Course Topics

• The “Core” of the Agile Kata
• Agile “Shell” of the Agile Kata
• Agile Kata for Agile Transformations
• Agile Kata for Agile Teams
• Business Agility with the Agile Kata
• Differences between Agile Kata and Existing Agile Processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Certification

Upon completion of the course, you will receive an assessment code (included in the course fee) by e-mail to complete your online assessment, verify your knowledge and to become an Agile Kata Pro Level 1.

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