Business Agility Foundation ICP-BAF

Course Code: 1600

$1795

Overview
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What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

The Business Agility Foundation course goes way beyond Agile software development, focusing on improving business agility, rather than software development. The course follows a set of highly experiential learning objectives to equip participants with new knowledge, tools and techniques that can be implemented immediately. The course is aligned with the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation certification, working as the first step towards achieving the coveted expert level in ICAgile’s Business Agility track.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 4 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 4 days

What You'll learn

The need for business agility
How to identify value
Techniques to better understand customers
Understand the dynamics of change, systemic problems and disruptive threats
Polarity management
Apply new ways of thinking such as Lean Systems Think and Design Think
Dynamics behind growth mindset, breaking paradigms
Understand new behaviors to exhibit
Understand lean startup techniques and philosophy
Understand how to leverage Kanban values and systems

Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Opening and introduction
Agenda and learning objectives
ICAgile certification overview
Working agreements

Module 2: The need for business agility

Business Agility: Drivers, Criticality, Values, Principles and Dimensions
VUCA
Case for Change: Empowering Teams
Case for Change: Customer value and continuous learning
Measure of success

Module 3: Compelling vision and Clarity of purpose

Compelling vision and clarity of purpose
Focusing on the Big Picture and Emerging Future
Blindspots, Mental models, patterns and Sensemaking
Complex dynamics of change
Understanding of customers, stakeholders and emerging markets

Module 4: New ways of thinking

Developing a growth mindset
Breaking paradigms and making value visible
Relationship between complexity and business agility
Recognizing and managing dilemmas, paradoxes and polarities
Lean systems thinking
Design thinking approaches

Module 5: New and differentiating behaviors

High-performance questions: Ask vs. Tell
Experimenting and hypothesis testing
Lean startup and canvases
Kanban values and systems
Iterative framework and sampling of practices

Module 6: Designing the future

Creating space for optimal engagement and value creation
Business playbook
Action plans for accelerating business agility
Personal development plan
Review ICAgile learning objectives and video

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course, however, completing the Foundations of Agile course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary to enable organizational agility in today’s innovative business climate will find the Business Agility Foundations course compelling. The course is highly recommended for –

Current and aspiring business agility leaders
Business change agents
Business leaders
Business managers
Value managers
Product owners
Product managers
Anyone wanting a certification in ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF)
Anyone wanting to be an ICAgile Certified Expert in Business Agility

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Certification

The ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) is intended to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality. Earning this cerfitication shows that the participant has the mindset and skills to make Agile business decisions in today’s dynamic and fast-paced business climate. ICP-BAF certified individuals will be prepared to gear an Agile practice towards customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.

There is no ICAgile official examination associated with this course.