Certified Agile Organization Designer (COD)
Learn how to transform your company into an agile organization that quickly responds to market changes, delights customers, and delivers maximum business value.
Certified Agile Organization Designer (COD)
What is most important for management to understand about Agile organization design? That the organizational design is the primary factor in supporting or limiting the people’s possibility to effectively adapt to customer demand.

Course Overview
This course is about re-designing an organization into one that can respond effectively to market changes and delight the customer. It is about redesigning the organization into an Agile one as effectively and painlessly as possible to create continuous innovation and customer value.
In this 2-day course, participants explore how to guide an Agile transformation and how it affects the organization design, from product definition, team composition, roles, and responsibilities to your appraisal system.
The course uses a combination of instructor-led and activity-based learning where participants work in small groups.
Participants leave this course with an appreciation for the agile mindset and how to deal with common adoption mistakes. They gain the knowledge and understanding about how to make informed decisions about their transformation that will be most beneficial to their organization.
Culture Change is Free. People’s behavior is a product of their system (John Seddon)
Certification
The course includes a free attempt at the Certified Agile Organization Designer (COD) certification exam. People who have passed COD exam, achieving certification, demonstrate a fundamental level of designing agile organization mastery. COD certificate holders prove that they understand basic concepts of how to design an agile organization.

Course Agenda
Course Agenda
Organizing for Adaptability
  • What is an Agile Organization?
  • Principles and Management Implications for Agility at Scale
  • Typical mistakes when Scaling Agility
  • Optimize for Flow efficiency instead of Resource Efficiency.
Agile Organization Design
  • From local team optimization to global product optimization
  • The key structural unit of an Agile Organization: The Product Group
  • Impact on roles, structure, and process.
Organization Re-design Guides
  • Organization Structure: How to structure the product group and surrounding organizational units.
  • Processes & Integration: How to Coordinate and integrate across units
  • People Practices
Coaching the Change Guides
  • People Guides: How to deal with resistance, influence people, and make the change productive
  • Change management practices
Becoming an Adaptable Organization
  • Preparing and launching a Product Group
  • Applying Systems Thinking to optimize for Adaptability
  • Leading the transformation
Who should Atend
The Agile Organization designer course is for people in manager roles that support an Agile adoption effort. We recommend that Tech, Business, and senior management representatives attend, preferably together.
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Training language: Russian
What is most important for management to understand about Agile organization design? That the organizational design is the primary factor in supporting or limiting the people’s possibility to effectively adapt to customer demand.