Designed for professionals outside of the software delivery space, Business Agility Foundations is an entry-level agile course.

This course focuses on tools, techniques, and methodologies for implementing agility in non-IT roles and departments.

Participants will complete the 2 day course with a deeper understanding of how to cultivate an agile mindset, adapt to change, and create products and services that deliver value.

Audience

Professionals outside of the software delivery space
Marketing Professionals, HR Professionals, Finance Professionals, Salespeople, Executives, Team Leads, Directors, Managers

Learning Objectives

Setting the Scene for Business Agility
- Awareness: The Need for Business Agility
  - Business Agility: Drivers and Criticality
  - Business Agility: Values, Principles and Dimensions
  - Case for Change: Empowering Teams
  - Case for Change: Customer Value and Continuous Learning
- Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of Purpose
  - Compelling Vision and Clarity of Purpose
  - Focusing on the Big Picture and Emerging Future as an Agile Business
  - Understanding Customers, Stakeholders, Business and Emerging Markets
Enabling Business Agility
- New Ways of Thinking
  - Developing a Growth Mindset
  - Blind Spots, Mental Models, Patterns and Sense Making
  - Relationship Between Complexity and Business Agility
  - Recognizing and Managing Dilemmas, Paradoxes and Polarities
- New and Differentiating Behaviors
  - Ask vs. Tell: High-Performance Questions
  - Making Value Visible
  - Experimenting and Hypothesis Testing
  - Complex Dynamics of Change, Polarities, Systemic Problems and Disruptive Threats
Implementing and Sustaining Business Agility
- Frameworks, Tools and Techniques
  - Lean Systems Thinking
  - Lean Startup and Canvases
  - Design Thinking Approaches
  - Flow-based Values and Systems
  - Iterative Framework and Sampling of Practices
- Business Agility as the New Normal
  - Creating Space for Optimal Engagement and Value Creation
  - Action Plans and Tools to Accelerate Business Agility
  - Continually Reinventing
  - Measures of Success

Prerequisites

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.

Certifications

Upon successful completion of the course, each participant will receive the ICAgile Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) certification.

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Business Agility Foundations (ICAgile)