AgileSHIFT® Certification Course Outline
Domain 1: Understand Why Organisations Need to Create a Culture of Enterprise Agility in Response to a Changing Context
Module 1: Explain the Increasing Pace of Change and Increasing Role of Technology
- VUCA and the Increasing Pace of Change
- The Increasing Role of Technology
Module 2: Recall the Definition of Key AgileSHIFT Concepts
- Recall the Definition of Key AgileSHIFT Concepts
- Agile and agile and Recognise the Differences Between Them
Module 3: Describe the Enablers for Disruption
- Enablers for Disruption
- The Gig Economy
- Remote Working
- Cloud Storage and Processing
- Online Presence
Module 4: Explain How an Organisation can Understand their Delta and the Nature & Effect of a Threat Gap
- How an Organisation Can Understand their Delta and Nature & Effect of a Threat Gap
Module 5: Explain the Relationship Between ‘Run the Organisation’ and ‘Change the Organisation’
- Traditional Responses to Change
- Run the Organisation; Change the Organisation
- The Alignment of RTO and CTO
Module 6: Explain the Relationship Between AgileSHIFT and Multimodal Working
- Multimodal Working
- Enterprise Agility and the Creation of Smaller-scale Agility
Module 7: Recall the Benefits and Barriers to Enterprise Agility
- Benefits and Barriers to Enterprise Agility
Module 8: Recall the Steps of the Path to Value
Domain 2: Understand the Key Concepts of the AgileSHIFT Framework
Module 1: Explain the Need for the ‘Whole Organisation’ Approach of AgileSHIFT
- Enabling Agile Ways of Working Across the Organisation
Module 2: Explain How Strategy should be Linked to Value Throughout the Organisation
- Organisational Strategic Alignment
- The Key Role of Middle Managers
Module 3: Explain the Purpose of the AgileSHIFT Principles
- AgileSHIFT Principles
- Testing the Principles
Module 4: Recall the AgileSHIFT Principles and Practices
Module 5: Explain the AgileSHIFT Principles
- Change Will Happen, So Embrace It
- Focus on Co-creation of Customer Value
- Develop an Environment Where Everybody Adds Value
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Tailor Your Approach
Module 6: Explain the AgileSHIFT Practices
- Engage Stakeholders
- Build Collaborative Teams
- Plan to Be Flexible and Adaptable
- Deliver Work Iteratively and Incrementally
- Measure Value
Domain 3: Understand the AgileSHIFT Delivery Approach
Module 1: Describe the AgileSHIFT Team
Module 2: Explain the Responsibilities, Characteristics and Behaviours of the AgileSHIFT Coach
Module 3: Explain the Responsibilities of the AgileSHIFT Sponsor
Module 4: Explain the AgileSHIFT Workflow
- The Trigger, Start-ups, and Go/No Go
- An Iteration, The Iteration Cycle, and Go/No Go
- Close-out of Work
Module 5: Recall the Sequence and Timing of the Main Activities Within an Iteration
Module 6: Explain the Activities Within an Iteration
- AgileSHIFT Iteration Planning
- AgileSHIFT Daily Stand-ups
- The AgileSHIFT Value Demo
- AgileSHIFT Iteration Retrospective
- Cancelling an Iteration
Module 7: Recall the Definition of Tools and Techniques
- Definition of Tools and Techniques