The Scrum Alliance created the Certified Agile Leadership CAL series of 1-day workshops in response to the need to raise the leadership level in agile contexts. They found that changing the world of work via an agile mindset, strategies, and tactics can not be achieved by only focusing on the team. The more important factor is shifting the mindset of the leaders, and the CAL is focused squarely on that goal.
There are three one-day in-person classes in the CAL series:
If delivered in a virtual format, the class will be delivered in 3.5-hour “chunks” over four days, either in morning or afternoon sessions. We’ve found that splitting it up this way allows for a more immersive and less exhausting experience. In person, it will be a jam-packed 2-days.
At the end of this class, attendees will receive the CAL-E and CAL-O certifications.
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Many Scrum Alliance CSTs and CECs have far too limited real-world leadership experience. While they've studied leadership academically and try to empathize with the challenges, in a word, they really can't. They lack the seasoning and experience to truly understand agile leadership development.
What sets Bob Galen and our CAL classes apart is the depth and breadth of our real-world experience:
And all of this experience is woven into the materials of our CAL-E, CAL-T, and CAL-O class stories, examples, breakouts, and the focus.
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CAL-E is the baseline class for discovering your alignment toward agile leadership. It’s an inside-out journey that will springboard you on a personal discovery and change journey.
These are the high-level learning objectives the Scrum Alliance has established for the CAL-E.
Our critical focus points:
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CAL-O is the baseline class for discovering how to lead your organizational shift to Organizational and Business Agility effectively. This class focuses on culture, organizational design, and leading thru change with broad strategies and specific tactics.
These are the high-level learning objectives the Scrum Alliance has established for the CAL-O.
Our critical focus points:
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This virtual class is 4-days in length. 2-days for delivering CAL-E and 2-days for CAL-O. We'll meet Monday through Thursday from 1pm - 4:30pm EST. We'll take a break every hour to keep things fresh.
Please note: there will be ~3-hours of prework before the class and a bit of homework after each daily session. You'll be sent connection information and prework upon registration.
You will receive access to a Dropbox with ALL the materials we will be using/referencing in the class
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The CAL series is designed to transform your leadership—
In the same way that your organization must shift and change during a successful agile/digital transformation.
Does attending the class automatically do that for you? Of course not. But you’ll leave with the KEYs to begin, navigate, and advance that journey on your own.
The CAL-T class is focused on team-level and focused leadership and management. Line managers and up will gain value from the class. As would senior Scrum Masters and agile coaches. In addition, senior product managers or product owners would also gain value.
The CAL-O class is focused on the organizational side of leadership and management. The sweet spot for the class is a company’s entire cross-functional leadership team engaged in an agile transformation. Often, the broader the organizational representation, the better. Senior leaders (C-level, VP, Director, and Sr, Managers) will strongly benefit from this path as well.
Registrations are non-refundable, but substitutions will be easily allowed with advance notice.
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Bob Galen has held senior leadership roles within software development organizations since the early 1990s. Always a student of leadership, he’s been at the forefront as management and leadership techniques have moved toward “the team.” An early adopter of agile methods, Bob has had in-the-trenches experience building three successful agile technical organizations that have served as models of “agile done right.”
Currently, he is president of RGCG, a boutique agile coaching firm.
Bob has broad and deep experience leveraging Extreme Programming, Scrum, and Kanban, having been a practitioner since the late 1990s. In 2013, Bob became one of ~90 CEC-level coaches with the Scrum Alliance. He coaches cross-organizationally around the world in helping clients achieve improved performance.
Often called a “Coach of Agile Coaches,” Bob has included his deep and pragmatic leadership and agile experiences in this class. You’ll leave with the skills, knowledge, ideas, and tactics to accelerate your agile leadership journey.
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Peter Fischbach is an executive Scrum coach located in Berlin, Germany. He has been working in agile environments for 20 years. With Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland, Peter teaches teams and executives in Germany. 2019 Jeff nominated him as one of 12 Licensed Scrum Fellows, who are responsible for spreading his knowledge worldwide. Since 2015 he has worked with Jeff on Scrum@Scale, which is how agile organizations can be scaled.
Peter works with managers and executives in Scrum transitions in various industries, among others in software, banking, mobility, logistics, and science.
Peter is co-chairing the German Scrum Day, Germany's oldest and largest Scrum conference within the Scrum Events network. Scrum Events established eduScrum Germany in 2016, where Peter is an active team member.