ACHIEVING AGILITY
Implement Agile across your organization with a practical plan.
This three-day course moves beyond framework mechanics to address the structures, processes, leadership behaviors, and culture required for a successful Agile implementation.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
Organization-wide Agile implementation
Duration
3 days
Scope
Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, and supporting practices
Professional development
21 formal Agile-training hours
Assess readiness
Identify the conditions needed before scaling adoption.
Choose practices wisely
Combine proven approaches to fit the organization and work.
Implement realistically
Address leadership, culture, controls, and team performance.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For leaders and practitioners responsible for making Agile work.
This course is designed for the people evaluating, leading, supporting, or experiencing an Agile transformation across teams, programs, portfolios, and departments.
Project Managers
Leading Agile teams or organizational transitions.
Team Members
Joining or currently working on Agile projects.
Functional Managers
Managing people who serve on Agile initiatives.
Program Managers
Coordinating programs where projects are adopting Agile.
Portfolio Managers
Guiding investment decisions across Agile portfolios.
Product Managers
Transitioning responsibilities toward Product Ownership.
Scrum Masters and Product Owners
Navigating adoption challenges and expanding their practices.
Business and QA Analysts
Understanding how Agile changes analysis and quality roles.
IT Managers and Directors
Evaluating or leading current and future Agile implementation.
WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE
Replace Agile mythology with practical implementation choices.
Is your organization ready?
Evaluate the structures, culture, leadership, and work environment that will support or constrain adoption.
Are you changing roles?
Understand how project management, leadership, analysis, quality, and product responsibilities evolve.
Have you already started?
Diagnose adoption challenges, dispel common myths, and identify practical opportunities to improve.
COURSE CONTENT
Understand the frameworks, then build the conditions for success.
Through instructor-led presentation and a threaded case study, participants connect Agile approaches to realistic organizational challenges and implementation decisions.
Build an Agile foundation
Define Agile, understand how it has evolved, and distinguish enduring principles from trends.
Explore why Scrum works
Understand where Scrum helps and what supporting conditions the framework assumes.
Apply the Scrum Framework
Use its principles, accountabilities, rules, events, and artifacts successfully.
Select proven approaches
Evaluate Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, and other practices for organizational fit.
Develop high-performing teams
Build self-managing, cross-functional teams aligned around shared goals.
Implement without losing control
Use practical success factors, transparency, feedback, and governance during transition.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS TAKE AWAY
Knowledge, perspective, and a stronger basis for action.
WORKPLACE OUTCOME
Leave with a practical implementation perspective
Participants develop a thorough understanding of widely used Agile approaches and the critical organizational elements needed to apply them successfully. Class activities connect the concepts directly to workplace decisions.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
21 formal Agile-training hours
Although this is not an exam-preparation course, its three days of Agile instruction can satisfy PMI’s current 21-hour formal Agile-training requirement for PMI-ACP applicants. Candidates remain responsible for confirming all eligibility requirements with PMI.
Course workbook included
Participants receive a detailed workbook to support the course and serve as a reference when applying the ideas at work.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dan Tousignant, PMP, PMI-ACP
Dan is a lifelong project manager and trainer with extensive experience managing software development projects. He helps organizations transition project teams and leadership to Agile ways of working through practical coaching and training grounded in real delivery experience.
Dan has more than 20 years of experience leading strategic projects, managing software development budgets of up to $50 million, overseeing multimillion-dollar outsourced development efforts, and working with leaders across industries.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and credentials including Project Management Professional, Professional Scrum Master, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and Professional Scrum Developer.
Ready to move from Agile adoption to organizational agility?
Tell us where your implementation stands, who needs to participate, and the outcomes the organization needs to achieve.