This course is organised by Käännös Agility Oy on behalf of Actineo Consulting LLP.

Why Should You Attend Flight Levels Systems Architecture?

Business Agility involves the entire organisation. However, most agile implementations focus on only team-level agility. Flight Levels take agility beyond the team beyond the portfolio and into strategy. Flight Levels Systems Architecture will help you:

• Establish business agility beyond team boundaries
  
• See how your organisation's strategy is progressing
• Know why any piece of work is important to your organisation's strategy
• Operationalise business strategy.
• Effectively manage dependencies between teams and services/products
• Know whether your organisation has the capacity to start a piece of work

What is Flight Levels?

Klaus Leopold author of “rethinking Agile” describes Flight Levels as a “thinking model” that can help you discover and highlight where in an organisation you need to focus on to achieve your desired objectives.

Flight Levels is not an organisational model or a maturity model. It is essentially a tool to help you think and communicate collaboratively at different levels of an organisation. The Flight Levels model represents the different levels or perspectives of an organisation as Flight Levels 1, 2 & 3.

Each Flight Level has a different focus:

• At Flight Level 3 the focus is on strategy. At FL3, organisations prioritise initiatives according to the direction of the company and monitor how those initiatives are helping the organisation achieve its strategic objectives. This is where strategy turns into action.
• At Flight Level 2 the focus is on coordination. FL2 systems allows is to break down the chosen initiatives into actionable pieces and to coordinate the work across multiple teams and services.
• At Flight Level 1 the focus is on delivery. FL1 teams are involved in operational work, break down the work into smaller items and focus on delivering these items.

Who Should Attend

The Flight Levels Systems Architecture (FLSA) course is for anyone who wants to break through the agile team boundaries and achieve agility for your entire organisation. Typical attendee roles include:

• Agile Coaches
• Programme Directors
• Senior Managers
• Middle Managers
• Organisational Design Professionals
• Change Leaders

What's included

• 3 sessions of engaging, fun learning with like-minded people
• Enrolment on to Flight Levels Introduction (FLIN) e-learning course. This course is provided for FREE with your FLSA registration.
• Klaus Leopold's book "Rethinking Agile" in PDF format

Prerequisites

• Successful Completion of Flight Levels Introduction (FLIN) e-learning course. 
• Experience of agile working methods (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, etc) and modern management systems.

Session Details

Duration: The course delivers a total of 18 hours of learning. It is made up of 2 live virtual sessions of 3 hours each, 1 in-person session of 7 hours, 2 hours of course preparation and 2 pieces of intersession work of 1.5 hours each. All sessions - Finland Time (EEST).

• Pre-course preparation activities
• Session 1 - Live Virtual - Tue 13 Sept / 14:00-17:00 EEST (GMT+3)
• Intersession 1
• Session 2 - In-Person - Fri 16 Sept / 09:30 - 17:30 EEST (Tampere, Finland)
• Intersession 2
• Session 3 - Live Virtual - Wed 21 Sept / 14:00-17:00 EEST (GMT+3)

Format: Blended - 2 Sessions Live Virtual (Mural and Zoom) and 1 day In-Person (Tampere, Finland).

Agenda:

• Team agility vs. business agility
• Case study of business agility
• Describe the flow of different types of work across the organisation
• Design information flows and communication flows
• Manage & Operationalise strategic objectives
  
• Design Flight Level architectures
  
• Start rolling-out Flight Levels in your organisation
  

Your Instructors

Flight Levels Guides: Jose Casal and Jean-Paul Bayley from our partner, Actineo Consulting LLP. Jose and JP are amongst the most knowledgeable in the industry and are experienced teachers, facilitators, subject matter experts and coaches.

Jose Casal

Jose Casal is a business agility consultant & trainer with extensive experience. He is dedicated to helping organisations and individuals embrace modern management concepts including Flow Thinking, Kanban, Flight Levels & Scrum. Strongly motivated towards continuous learning and research, he is able to help organisations achieve better Agility. His goal is to create thriving and engaged organisations.

Jose's experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Flight Levels Guide (FLG), Professional Kanban Trainer (PKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-CT). He is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He co-founded Actineo Consulting LLP in 2015.

JP Bayley

Jean-Paul is a Partner with Actineo Consulting LLP. He is a business agility coach and trainer who is passionate about helping teams do their best work. He does this through training courses, workshops, and coaching. He has a strong technical background having worked for many years as a software engineer.

JP is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), a Flight Levels Guide (FLG) and a Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-CT). In 2017, with José Casal, and Andy De Vale, he co-created a self-coaching tool for teams called "The Kanban Guide". He has delivered talks at conferences in USA, UK, Ireland, and Germany.

Certification

After completing the Flight Levels Systems Architecture (FLSA) class, you will receive a Flight Levels Systems Architecture Certificate of Attendance from The Flight Levels Academy.

We provide a premium experience, more than just a training course.

With Käännös and Actineo, you get more than just a training course. You get to work with world-class trainers who will help you explore the key learning outcomes and prepare you to apply them to your context. You will get tools and know-how to help you apply what you have learnt effectively and with confidence. Further, the course doesn’t finish at the end of the class. You will have access to ongoing support & advice from the team and you will be welcomed to join an active Alumni community of practitioners that provides a great forum for questions and discussion.

If you want a snapshot of what it feels like to attend one of our courses and get a better understanding of why we believe your next course should be with Actineo, then don’t just take our word for it, this journal of a personal experience by one of our students is a must read.

We teach our courses in small groups to ensure every participant actively contributes, discusses their challenges and shares their stories. Because of this, while we deliver the class learning outcomes, each class is unique in its content.

What is Blended Training?

Blended training is a new concept that takes the best of Live Virtual training and the best of in-person training. Blended training is a learning experience that helps participants learn and retain the knowledge they pick up in class by providing spaced practice and socialisation.

Why Blended Training?

During the pandemic, we have seen first hand the power of Live Virtual training. Attendees retain information better because we space out their learning and have opportunities to practice what they learn in the work place in between sessions. They can then come back and discuss what they tried, how it worked, and ask questions about challenges they faced. What we seen that attendees miss is the water-cooler and lunch time conversations that ground their learning outside the walls of the classroom. So we've decided to run Blended Training so attendees can get the benefits of both formats.

Summary

• Duration: 13-21 September, 2 x 3-hour live virtual sessions, 1 x 7-hour in-person session + 2-hours of pre-course preparation + 3-hours of inter-session work. All sessions times in Finland Time (EEST).
• Maximum Class Size: Each class is capped at 12 attendees to ensure optimal learning.
• Format: Blended - 2 Sessions Live Virtual (Mural and Zoom) and 1 day In-Person (Tampere, Finland)
• Certification: Flight Levels Systems Architecture Certificate of Attendance from The Flight Levels Academy
• Language: English