Adventures with Agile
About
Heather Powers
United Kingdom
Upcoming Classes
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| Date | Certification | Class | Track | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 25, 2024 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching, ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transformations | Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp (ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) | Enterprise Agile Coaching | Oslo, Norway |
| November 29, 2024 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Agile Team Coach | Agile Team Coaching | Milan, Italy |
| December 05, 2024 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation | Agile Team Facilitator | Agile Team Coaching | Oslo, Norway |
| December 09, 2024 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Agile Team Coach | Agile Team Coaching | Oslo, Norway |
| December 17, 2024 09:00 PM GMT |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Agile Team Coach | Agile Team Coaching | London, United Kingdom |
| January 13, 2025 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Agile Team Coach | Agile Team Coaching | Malmö, Sweden |
| January 27, 2025 09:00 AM CET |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching, ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transformations | Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp (ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) | Enterprise Agile Coaching | Helsinki, Finland |
| February 10, 2025 12:00 PM GMT |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Remote Agile Team Coaching (ICP-ACC) | Agile Team Coaching | Online, United Kingdom |
| February 24, 2025 09:00 AM GMT |
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation | Remote Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) | Agile Team Coaching | Online, United Kingdom |
Accredited / Licensed Courses
This Member Organization has the capability to offer the following ICAgile-accredited courses.
| Certification | Class | Track | Course Description | Delivery Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Project and Delivery Management | Agile Project Management | Delivery Management | Want to learn about modern delivery approaches to ensure you’re adding maximum value?Our Agile Project Management course is designed for those working in a project, product or no-project context who seek to work in a more adaptive way.This course will help you to learn the skills, techniques, and mindset needed to manage work using an agile approach. You will learn how to collaborate with stakeholders and support self-organising teams to develop solutions incrementally to increase efficiency and effectiveness.You will also gain the agile project management toolkit needed to work more cohesively, communicate more effectively, and support teams with leadership and coordination and facilitation. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional | Agile Fundamentals | Agile Fundamentals | Start your journey towards Agile Mastery with the AWA Agile Fundamentals training course and gain an understanding of the key concepts needed to be successful in agile ways of working. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation | Agile Team Facilitator | Agile Team Coaching | Facilitation is a key skill required to foster collaboration and enable self-organizing teams. This two day ICAgile Certified workshop focuses on the mindset and role of an agile team facilitator and provides a range of tools and techniques that can be used for designing engaging meetings that drive towards agreed-upon outcomes. Participants will come away with both updated toolkits and practical experience that they can use back in the workplace while leveraging their new skill sets to facilitate agile practices towards successful team outcomes. You will also be eligible to attain the ICAgile-Certified Professional Agile Team Facilitator certification. This course has been designed and developed by Simon Powers and AWA Team, the global community of practice for agile and organizational change. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Agile Team Coach | Agile Team Coaching | "Phenomenal trainers, wealth of experience and amazing tools to take away & apply immediately at work. Brilliant 3 days - thank you!!" Agile and Lean work when there is deep respect and consideration for people. However, often the behaviours we experience and sometimes exhibit at work are not in alignment with our own goals and the goals of the organisation. This is what makes achieving agility so hard. Professional coaching helps individuals and teams increase transparency of their own internal and external blockers that stop them from being successful in achieving their goals. During this 3-day highly interactive ICAgile-Certified coaching course with Adventures with Agile, you will learn specific professional coaching skills required to help others who are moving towards Agile ways of working. You will also gain the understanding and skills required to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team and be exposed to team dynamics and the role the wider organisation system plays. Delicious lunch, snacks, coffees, teas, and water are included in the registration fee. Upon successful completion of the course you will receive the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching Certification. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching | Remote Agile Team Coaching (ICP-ACC) | Agile Team Coaching | "Phenomenal trainers, wealth of experience and amazing tools to take away & apply immediately at work. Brilliant - thank you!!" Agile and Lean work when there is deep respect and consideration for people. However, often the behaviours we experience and sometimes exhibit at work are not in alignment with our own goals and the goals of the organisation. This is what makes achieving agility so hard. Professional coaching helps individuals and teams increase transparency of their own internal and external blockers that stop them from being successful in achieving their goals. During this highly interactive ICAgile-Certified coaching online course with Adventures with Agile we will show you how to harness the power of agile coaching to build high-performing agile teams, even when everyone is remote! You will also learn how to create psychological safety and trust within remote distributed teams using a blend of coaching techniques and remote collaboration tools. And how to help your teams realise their objectives that may be just outside of their reach, even in the face of uncertainty. Now more than ever your teams need effective agile coaching to help them navigate the increasingly complex landscape. And thanks to our "do-it-now" format you will finish our training with hands-on capabilities to help your teams succeed. And this online class with AWA gives you exclusive access to: Free membership to a passionate, motivated and inspirational global online community of agile coaching practitioners and our course leaders for a lifetime of support. Dramatically improved skills and knowledge that will enable you to mentor and coach your co-located and remote teams. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation | Remote Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) | Agile Team Coaching | "Outstanding world class trainers. Very privileged to be in this environment learning from them" This ONLINE class runs over 4 days from 1pm - 6pm (BST) Facilitation is a key skill required to foster collaboration, enable self-organising teams and create to trust and safety. The AWA 16-hour ICAgile Certified Agile Facilitation training course, focuses on the mindset and role of an agile team facilitator and show you how to employ a range of tools and techniques that can be used for designing and facilitating both in-the-room and online meetings that result in agreed outcomes. With our “Do it now” format emphasising learning by doing you will come away from the class with hands on capabilities to help your teams succeed. By attending this highly interactive workshop you will gain the necessary skills to design online and in-the-room meetings for maximum impact. You will come away with both updated toolkits and practical experience that you can use back in the workplace and with your remote teams, while leveraging your new skill sets to facilitate agile practices towards successful team outcomes. Attend our online class to learn how to foster a feeling of safety so that everyone feels heard online using quickly effective and engaging remote collaboration tools that allow you to think and collaborate visually anytime, anywhere. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Project and Delivery Management | Agile Project Management | Delivery Management | Want to learn about modern delivery approaches to ensure you’re adding maximum value?Our Agile Project Management course is designed for those working in a project, product or no-project context who seek to work in a more adaptive way.This course will help you to learn the skills, techniques, and mindset needed to manage work using an agile approach. You will learn how to collaborate with stakeholders and support self-organising teams to develop solutions incrementally to increase efficiency and effectiveness.You will also gain the agile project management toolkit needed to work more cohesively, communicate more effectively, and support teams with leadership and coordination and facilitation. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Product Management | Product Management | Product Management | How can we bring products to market that customers love in a way that is more expedient and more efficient?This is the role of the product manager. In this course you will learn how to oversee the product lifecycle and create and advance the product strategy – carefully balancing concerns between market conditions, business strategy, and tactical delivery. In doing so, you’ll learn how to embrace the needs of all three to add value to your organisation, your stakeholders, and most importantly, your customer.Through this course, you will build an understanding of the product lifecycle and how to manage the product through its phases. You will learn how to bring the customer voice, competitive analysis, market trends and other knowledge into the organisation to drive better business decisions. You will gain new techniques for communicating your product vision and roadmap as well as a toolkit to deliver better products. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Delivery at Scale | Delivery at Scale | Delivery Management | Many teams are seeing the benefits of applying an agile approach to their work, including increased collaboration and engagement, more adaptability, faster delivery and improved quality. But how do we apply those same practices and principles across different portfolios, products or projects?Our Delivery at Scale course will give you the tools and frameworks needed to apply agile to the broader context of product delivery so you can ensure that you’re delivering working products or solutions while balancing competing demands across the organisation.This experiential course focusses on real-life examples and hands-on exercises to help you uncover various key concepts for implementing agile at scale. You will learn about adaptive planning techniques and a people-centric transformation approach that can help you achieve the best outcomes for your organisation. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional | Agile Foundations (ICP) | Agile Fundamentals | Start your journey towards Agile Mastery with the AWA Agile Team Foundations training and use the Agile Mindset, values and principles to discern the right ways of agile working for your team and organisation. Agile is not a simple process you can learn and then implement, it is a mindset shift that then allows teams to collaborate in new ways that is specific to the context they are in. This course covers all of the cornerstones of what agility is and the considerations that you need to implement it. The course covers all of the ICAgile learning outcomes which can be summarised as: • The history of agility including the agile manifesto • The agile onion and mindset beliefs, and how to use them tangibly and effectively • The skills needed to move teams towards high performance including: • Communication barriers • Knowledge sharing • Physical and remote working environment considerations • Collaboration • Self-organisation • Shared understanding • Working alliances • Using experiments to achieve outcomes • Job roles • Agile meetings • Retrospectives • Who is the customer? • Agile structure with more than one team • Value and risk-based product development • Estimation and Prioritisation • Work in Progress limits and the relation to flow (getting items to customers faster) • Putting it all together | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Foundations of DevOps | The Devops Way (ICP-FDO) | DevOps | The DevOps Way is a practitioner’s guide to understanding DevOps and how it helps you, and the enterprises you are part of, succeed at scale. Drawing upon experiences and insights from practitioners and thought leaders in the global DevOps community, we have created a course which will give you broad knowledge across the full DevOps landscape. In the DevOps Way, you’ll discover the origins of DevOps, gain an understanding of DevOps from the viewpoint of some of its most influential thought leaders and learn about the relationship DevOps has with Continuous Delivery and Agile practices. We’ll also explore the various technologies which enable DevOps at scale and how DevOps plays a vital role in the enterprise. On completing this course you will have gained comprehensive knowledge of the beliefs and behaviours that underpin DevOps, enabling you to provide a greater and more rewarding contribution towards the mission of your enterprise. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Systems Coaching | Systems Coaching and Thinking (ICP-SYS) | Systems Coaching | "I can now help leaders visualise what is going on in the organisation to create new and more impactful solutions" This deeply experiential ICAgile-Certified Systems Coaching training course by AWA develops systems thinkers and systems coaches capable of uncovering the organisation's hidden elephants. We explore your real-world examples and practise using models, techniques, and tools to navigate emerging outcomes, so you can make the changes needed for survival, growth, innovation, and delivery in today's rapidly changing and complex world. Seeing the world through new eyes changes the world. Systems Coaching helps us see things from a different perspective and is an incredibly powerful tool for change agents. This ICAgile Certified Systems Coaching and Thinking course helps you uncover and visualise hidden problems within your organisation, as well as work with large groups of people to co-create solutions to those problems. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Systems Coaching | Systems Coaching and Thinking (ICP-SYS) | Systems Coaching | "I can now help leaders visualise what is going on in the organisation to create new and more impactful solutions" This deeply experiential ICAgile-Certified Systems Coaching training course by AWA develops systems thinkers and systems coaches capable of uncovering the organisation's hidden elephants. We explore your real-world examples and practise using models, techniques, and tools to navigate emerging outcomes, so you can make the changes needed for survival, growth, innovation, and delivery in today's rapidly changing and complex world. Seeing the world through new eyes changes the world. Systems Coaching helps us see things from a different perspective and is an incredibly powerful tool for change agents. This ICAgile Certified Systems Coaching and Thinking course helps you uncover and visualise hidden problems within your organisation, as well as work with large groups of people to co-create solutions to those problems. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Product Management | Product Management | Product Management | How can we bring products to market that customers love in a way that is more expedient and more efficient?This is the role of the product manager. In this course you will learn how to oversee the product lifecycle and create and advance the product strategy – carefully balancing concerns between market conditions, business strategy, and tactical delivery. In doing so, you’ll learn how to embrace the needs of all three to add value to your organisation, your stakeholders, and most importantly, your customer.Through this course, you will build an understanding of the product lifecycle and how to manage the product through its phases. You will learn how to bring the customer voice, competitive analysis, market trends and other knowledge into the organisation to drive better business decisions. You will gain new techniques for communicating your product vision and roadmap as well as a toolkit to deliver better products. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching, ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transformations | Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp (ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) | Enterprise Agile Coaching | "The next demand for Agile is at a broader enterprise level, this course enables engagement of Leadership to get to real business challenged instead of expecting Agile as an answer" “A really valuable investment that stretched my thinking, and encouraged me about the exciting opportunities for whole organisational agility.” The advanced Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp is an intensive and transformative training experience which shows you exactly what about an organisation needs to change to become more responsive and more adaptive. We then show you how using the Enterprise Change Pattern, our pioneering non-prescriptive approach that unlocks organisational agility. During this five-day course we cover organisational development, leadership coaching, large-scale facilitation, structural and process design, organisational change process, human change process and organisational design. You will come away with the advanced skills needed to coach at the enterprise level within an organisational change context and know how to co-create meaningful, long-lasting enterprise-wide change using the Enterprise Change Pattern. If you want to learn how to help individuals, teams and whole organisations through the challenges they face when moving towards enterprise agility then attend the Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp. What else? Discover how the Enterprise Change Pattern can be used to unlock change that sticks . Know how to coach leadership and solve business problems at an enterprise level Gain advanced skills for the transformation work that you are involved and start designing systems that supports high-performance, customer focus, and facilitates agility Acquire advanced structural, process, cultural and leadership knowledge Demonstrate what changes organisations need to so it can be more responsive and more value driven Add multiple change strategies suiting different organisational contexts to your toolkit Acquire insights, models and techniques to help people understand what change means to them Gain multiple skills and competencies from the field of Enterprise Agile Coaching Dramatically improved skills and knowledge that will enable you to mentor and coach others at an enterprise level Advanced skills and techniques so that you can work at scale across multiple teams Demonstrate your capability and skillset against the learning objectives set out in ICAgile’s most advanced track, Enterprise Agile Coaching Printed and bound manual (in-the-room class online) Online and downloadable copy of the class manual Book as part of the AWA Training Pass to build a full training plan for enterprise agile coaching Free membership to global online Enterprise Agile Coach community providing you with a rich platform in which to learn, share and network pre and post-class Delicious lunch and refreshments are provided throughout the course as part of your registration fee | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching, ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transformations | Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp (ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) | Enterprise Agile Coaching | "The next demand for Agile is at a broader enterprise level, this course enables engagement of Leadership to get to real business challenged instead of expecting Agile as an answer" “A really valuable investment that stretched my thinking, and encouraged me about the exciting opportunities for whole organisational agility.” The advanced Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp is an intensive and transformative training experience which shows you exactly what about an organisation needs to change to become more responsive and more adaptive. We then show you how using the Enterprise Change Pattern, our pioneering non-prescriptive approach that unlocks organisational agility. During this five-day course we cover organisational development, leadership coaching, large-scale facilitation, structural and process design, organisational change process, human change process and organisational design. You will come away with the advanced skills needed to coach at the enterprise level within an organisational change context and know how to co-create meaningful, long-lasting enterprise-wide change using the Enterprise Change Pattern. If you want to learn how to help individuals, teams and whole organisations through the challenges they face when moving towards enterprise agility then attend the Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp. What else? Discover how the Enterprise Change Pattern can be used to unlock change that sticks . Know how to coach leadership and solve business problems at an enterprise level Gain advanced skills for the transformation work that you are involved and start designing systems that supports high-performance, customer focus, and facilitates agility Acquire advanced structural, process, cultural and leadership knowledge Demonstrate what changes organisations need to so it can be more responsive and more value driven Add multiple change strategies suiting different organisational contexts to your toolkit Acquire insights, models and techniques to help people understand what change means to them Gain multiple skills and competencies from the field of Enterprise Agile Coaching Dramatically improved skills and knowledge that will enable you to mentor and coach others at an enterprise level Advanced skills and techniques so that you can work at scale across multiple teams Demonstrate your capability and skillset against the learning objectives set out in ICAgile’s most advanced track, Enterprise Agile Coaching Printed and bound manual (in-the-room class online) Online and downloadable copy of the class manual Book as part of the AWA Training Pass to build a full training plan for enterprise agile coaching Free membership to global online Enterprise Agile Coach community providing you with a rich platform in which to learn, share and network pre and post-class Delicious lunch and refreshments are provided throughout the course as part of your registration fee | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Leading with Agility | Transformational Leadership (ICP-LEA) | Agility in Leadership | Elevate your leadership to new heights and lead your organisation towards a more adaptable and value-driven future on this ICAgile Certified Transformational Leadership development course (ICP-LEA) with AWA. Over two interactive days, we’ll explore which aspects of your organisation need to change and how to map out your vision and outcomes. We’ll discuss where blockers sit within organisations and how to resolve them, including what is required from leadership to enable lasting change. We will explore models like the Product Life Cycle S Curve, Wardley Maps, Action Logic, as well as AWA’s cutting-edge Enterprise Change Pattern. Our course will help you develop your agile leadership and strategy skills and give you an aligned understanding of agile principles, mindset and common language. You’ll learn about the mindset shift needed to effectively leverage agile ways of working and how to use experiments to safely achieve your desired organisational outcomes. We’ll also provide you with a road map to communicate a “People-First” strategy and vision to the rest of the organisation, as well as help you create your own tailored Leadership plan. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Leading with Agility | Transformational Leadership (ICP-LEA) | Agility in Leadership | Elevate your leadership to new heights and lead your organisation towards a more adaptable and value-driven future on this ICAgile Certified Transformational Leadership development course (ICP-LEA) with AWA. Over two interactive days, we’ll explore which aspects of your organisation need to change and how to map out your vision and outcomes. We’ll discuss where blockers sit within organisations and how to resolve them, including what is required from leadership to enable lasting change. We will explore models like the Product Life Cycle S Curve, Wardley Maps, Action Logic, as well as AWA’s cutting-edge Enterprise Change Pattern. Our course will help you develop your agile leadership and strategy skills and give you an aligned understanding of agile principles, mindset and common language. You’ll learn about the mindset shift needed to effectively leverage agile ways of working and how to use experiments to safely achieve your desired organisational outcomes. We’ll also provide you with a road map to communicate a “People-First” strategy and vision to the rest of the organisation, as well as help you create your own tailored Leadership plan. | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Delivery at Scale | Delivery at Scale | Delivery Management | Many teams are seeing the benefits of applying an agile approach to their work, including increased collaboration and engagement, more adaptability, faster delivery and improved quality. But how do we apply those same practices and principles across different portfolios, products or projects?Our Delivery at Scale course will give you the tools and frameworks needed to apply agile to the broader context of product delivery so you can ensure that you’re delivering working products or solutions while balancing competing demands across the organisation.This experiential course focusses on real-life examples and hands-on exercises to help you uncover various key concepts for implementing agile at scale. You will learn about adaptive planning techniques and a people-centric transformation approach that can help you achieve the best outcomes for your organisation. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional | Agile Fundamentals (ICP) | Agile Fundamentals | Agile Fundamentals (ICP) | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional | Agile Fundamentals (ICP) | Agile Fundamentals | Agile Fundamentals (ICP) | Remote |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Product Ownership | Product Ownership | Product Management | How do we ensure that the right product is built in the right way to most effectively solve the right business problem?Agile delivery teams need an empowered Product Owner that has a clarity of vision, alignment with organisational strategy, an understanding of the development process and the ability to communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders. Our Agile Product Ownership course will provide you with the techniques and tools to become an effective Product Owner equipped to guide product development and lead value delivery teams. This course focuses on how to deliver business value and ensure product fit, demonstrating practices that work in an agile development process. You will leave with the required tools and approaches that will enable collaboration with teams and stakeholders to identify the most important aspects and features of a product or initiative. | In Person |
| ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Product Ownership | Product Ownership | Product Management | How do we ensure that the right product is built in the right way to most effectively solve the right business problem?Agile delivery teams need an empowered Product Owner that has a clarity of vision, alignment with organisational strategy, an understanding of the development process and the ability to communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders. Our Agile Product Ownership course will provide you with the techniques and tools to become an effective Product Owner equipped to guide product development and lead value delivery teams. This course focuses on how to deliver business value and ensure product fit, demonstrating practices that work in an agile development process. You will leave with the required tools and approaches that will enable collaboration with teams and stakeholders to identify the most important aspects and features of a product or initiative. | Remote |