Agile & DevOps Leadership—ICAgile Certification
- Learn how to lead critical culture changes and improve organizational agility
- Understand agile and DevOps and how to implement these transformations across the enterprise
- Learn how to apply critical agile and DevOps values and principles across multiple teams
- Discuss industry best implementation practices and methodologies for developing and delivering better software
- Behaviors that increase agility
- Developing yourself as a leader
- Leading organizational transformations to improved agility
- Agile and DevOps values and principles
- Value stream identification and mapping
- Industry best implementation practices and methodologies
- Successful organizational models for agile and DevOps Transformational leadership characteristics
- How to lead culture change
Successful attendees are awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional—Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA) credential. Additionally, the certified attendees will be listed on the ICAgile website, indicating their designation. Coveros recommends Agile Fundamentals—ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) for those seeking ICAgile's certification.The ICAgile certification fee is included with your registration for your convenience.
- Organizations as Human Systems
- Transformation Anti-Patterns
- Assessing your situation and building a plan for transformation
- The plan, build and scale model for transformation
- Scaling Models
- Putting it all together
- How roles change in agile and DevOps
- The Transformational Leader
- T-Shaped Engineering Staff
- Organizational approaches to agile and DevOps
- Your personal leadership and transformation plan
- Resources
- Next steps & actions for transformation
- ICAgile certification fee
- Digital course materials
- Continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks
- Lunches
- Letter of completion
Mike Sowers has over forty years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed IT teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their agile software development, testing, and DevOps delivery approaches. Mike is an industry leader regularly speaking and teaching at technology conferences to share his extensive knowledge with leaders at all levels.
Mike has worked with companies—including Fidelity Investments, PepsiCo, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, NorthWestern Mutual Financial, John Deere, Lockheed and the US Army — to improve development approaches, increase software quality, reduce time to market, and decrease costs. With his passion for helping teams deliver software faster, better, and cheaper, Mike has mentored and coached senior software leaders, project teams, and direct contributors worldwide.