CAL-II-Advanced Education and Validated Practice
Agile Leadership Development Program
The goal of CAL II is to guide leaders in deepening, applying, and sharing their agile leadership learning.
Earning your CAL accreditation requires you to present one CAL Advanced Practice reports in a facilitated, peer-based workshop with others in the program.
Workshop Dates: Nov 01-02, 2023
Cohort Session Dates: Nov 10, Dec 1, Jan 12
Peer Review Workshop: Feb 9th, 2024
His vision on how to proceed was clear and well communicated so that people at all levels in the company could understand it and move forward. Dhaval brought a wealth of experience to the table, and his well planned and interesting lessons coupled with his oft’ humorous delivery were quite effective. I hope to have the opportunity to work with Dhaval again.
The training was very engaging, full of real-world examples and hands-on demo. Dhaval is an expert in the subject and knows how to convey the message through use his lecture, literature and white-boarding the ideas. The traning provided be a good foundation and has helped me guide and coach teams in the transformation to Agile/DevOps.
Dhaval Panchal
Course Instructor
Experienced executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up.
He has led large-scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains.
Proven expertise and Skill Development
Our CAL II program emphasis is on your agile leadership skill development. We employ Systems Thinking techniques to deepen your understanding so you can lead transformative change in your organization. This includes the application of Agile and Scrum outside of software development to engineering solutions and business functions.
This course explores human and systems dynamics so you can develop your agile leadership style. This workshop fosters an inclusive, safe-to-fail environment where you can discover the leader within.
Participation in this cohort-based program covers the following advanced education topics:
- Leadership in Agile Context
- The Agile Organization
- Agile approaches to change
Are you ready?
Unlike typical certification courses, this program requires you
- Learn: Advance your understanding through monthly working sessions
- Do: Apply learnings in your organization
- Share: Document and share your experience with your peers in the final peer-review workshop.
Structural Overview of the program
Learn together, grow together
- Minimum 6 participants and Maximum 12 participants
- Two workshop days for Advanced Learning Topics
- Three ninety-minute Cohort Sessions
- One final peer-review workshop
- Validated practice assignments
- Real-time peer support and mentoring
In Cohort sessions, we will review the application of advanced learning concepts and guide you to make progress on your validated practice assignments.
You will be required to document and share your experience report, similar to a case study. This is a mandatory last step in being awarded your CAL II certification.
Our curriculum will enable you to
- Authentically lead with integrity
- Identifying opportunities and gaps in your agile organization
- Use co-creating and catalytic leadership techniques to improve agile change adoption
- Develop a personal plan for improvement in becoming an Agile leader
- Design holistic change initiatives for agile teams
- Design Agile strategies for change management at the organization level
- Organization design elements to collaborate, inspect, and adapt at scale
- Influence your organizational culture to improve agility
- Design and implement transformation experiments at scale
Upcoming Cohort Dates
Workshop Dates: Nov 01-02, 2023
Cohort Session Dates: Nov 10, Dec 1, Jan 12
Peer Review Workshop: Feb 9th, 2024
CAL-II Program Curriculum
Who Should Attend?
For leaders who value ongoing personal growth. Participant leaders will develop Agile leadership competency and increase effectiveness to lead in complex and rapidly changing business environments.
Leadership is required at all levels within the organization. This workshop is designed for managers and people who want to guide team and organizational development toward becoming learning systems. Participants come from diverse backgrounds in industry and life experiences. Typically,
- Executives, Directors, and Senior management
- Product, Technical, and Functional managers
- Team leader, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master
- Practice leaders
Does it matter where you learn from?
Absolutely does.
ScrumAlliance accredited courses are uniquely designed by each Guide level educator against a common framework of course learning objectives. No two CAL courses offered by Guide level instructors are the same.
Designed for accelerated adult learning, our course makes challenging topics easy to grasp. Our instructors are active practitioners with the practical know-how you need to lead in the real world.
Featured Case Study
CAL II Program participants must apply advanced leadership techniques and document their experience. This case study from participant leader Stephen Manley details practices learned in our CAL II program and how they enabled Agile Approaches to change.
Personal Agility
Raise personal awareness to understand challenges with organization agility, and how to lead with integrity.
- Leading Congruently: Share & reflect on your personal leadership journey so far.
- Agile leadership outcomes: Establish a relationship with a team in your organization to problem-solve collaboratively.
Agile Organizations
Learn to reveal the structure of an organizational problem. Develop a deeper understanding of organizational environmental and cultural factors that hamper/aid agility.
- Containers & Exchanges: Analytical technique to map a team of teams network
- The flow of work: Backlog mapping
- Trails & Trials: Designing and ranking improvement hypothesis
Agile Approaches to Change
Learn the true behavior of organizational systems, design leadership interventions for organizational change, and adapt to overcome change resistance.
- Influencing change: Personal, Structural, and Social Dimensions of improving motivation and ability
- Team coaching canvas: Develop the whole team’s ability to improve collaboratively
Cohort Sessions
Explore areas of puzzlement, design countermeasures, or plan the next steps in your organization’s continuous improvement journey.
- ‘I wonder why?’: Modeling systems dynamics to hold dialogue
- There is always a better way
Final Peer-review workshop
Present one experience report for analysis, and receive feedback from your cohort peers.
Pre-requisites
CAL II pre-requisites
You are required to have an active CAL (E+T) or CAL (E+O) or CAL (E+T+O) or CAL-I as well as successful completion of the CAL II program.
Evolve Agility’s CAL II program continues our CAL (E+T+O) or CAL (E+T) Course.
If you have CAL (E+T) or CAL (E+O) accreditation from a different CAL -Educator, then we encourage you to participate in our CAL (E/T/O) course before or during the cohort program.
All accepted participants to the CAL II program will receive complimentary registration to our CAL (E/T/O) program so past attendees can refresh, and new attendees can catch up.
We intend to create an environment of learning, and participants must join for the right reasons.
Bring this course in-house
Customize tailored cohort-sessions for your organization’s specific needs. References are provided upon request.
The Online Experience FAQ
Answers to some of the commonly asked questions about the CAL II program
- We host our virtual training on Zoom. Please install the Zoom client on your computer.
- For online collaboration, we use Mural. Participants are provided with a free guest account for the course days. Please confirm that you can access the website from your network.
- We take breaks almost hourly, with a more extended lunch break
- Certification fees are included
- A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
- Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
- Working sessions will not be recorded
- Participants must attend all five sessions
Public Course Registration Policies
Do you facilitate this cohort experience for private clients?
Yes, see Leadership Cohort services page for details.
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
Yes, you can request a transfer to the next available event one time.
What is the refund policy?
Cancellations more than two weeks before the course start date receive a full refund. Cancellations within two weeks of the course date receive a 70% refund. Your fees will be forfeited in case of no-shows.