Agile & DevOps Leadership

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ICAgile Certified Professional - Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA)

Lead organizational agility through culture change and enterprise-wide Agile/DevOps transformation, applying principles across teams and leveraging industry best practices for improved software delivery.

Description

Competitive markets dictate an ever-increasing need to react quickly and deliver business value and quality efficiently. Organizations that cannot evolve to newer and faster-paced delivery models will struggle to survive. Agile and DevOps are essential to deliver robust software solutions quickly and reliably without increasing risk or sacrificing quality.

Designed for executives and organizational leaders, this course teaches what you need to know to successfully implement Agile and DevOps in your organization. Learn how to apply critical values and principles, leverage experience-based best practices, avoid common implementation mistakes, and build a leadership framework for success.

Key outcomes from this class include:

  • Learning how to lead critical culture changes and improve organizational agility
  • Understanding Agile and DevOps and how to implement these transformations across the enterprise
  • Applying Agile and DevOps values and principles across multiple teams
  • Exploring industry best implementation practices and methodologies for delivering better software
  • Developing leadership skills that support successful organizational transformation

Hands-on Exercises

Participants take part in collaborative exercises designed to strengthen leadership skills and insights needed for successful Agile and DevOps transformation.

Who Should Attend

This course is appropriate for experienced executives and line-of-business leaders, directors and managers, project managers, and business or product owners.

Course Structure

This course uses an optimal mix of lecture and collaborative exercises. Participants leave with a completed personal leadership plan.

Course Completion and Certification

Successful attendees are awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional—Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA) designation. The ICAgile certification fee is included with registration for your convenience.

About ICAgile

The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) fosters learning around agile methods, skills, and tools through community-defined learning objectives and role-based learning paths. For more information, visit www.icagile.com.

Course Duration and Schedule

Two-Day Format

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM each day with a 1-hour lunch break and morning and afternoon breaks.

Three-Day Format

11:30 AM - 5:00 PM each day with afternoon breaks.

Upcoming Training

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Course Certification Date Location Price Register
Agile & DevOps Leadership Workshop ICP-LEA Nov 17 - Nov 19, 2026 Virtual Classroom $1,495 Register

Course Outline

Why Agile and DevOps?

  • Global change and competitiveness
  • Shifts in organizational culture
  • Business benefits of Agile and DevOps

Agile and DevOps Defined

  • What is Agile? What is DevOps?
  • Agile and DevOps history
  • The Three Ways
  • Agile values and principles
  • DevOps methodologies and practices
  • DevOps challenges

Your Leadership Role in Agile and DevOps

  • Characteristics of a transformational leader
  • Transformational forms of power and influence
  • Storytelling, communication, and leadership actions
  • Emotional intelligence and mindfulness
  • Development of self perspective, personal purpose, and values
  • Developing a strategic perspective

Establishing a Generative Culture

  • What is culture?
  • Westrum’s Three Cultures Model
  • Recognizing your existing culture
  • Aspects of an Agile and DevOps culture
  • Developing culture and people

Transformation Process

  • Organizations as human systems
  • Transformation anti-patterns
  • Assessing your situation and building a transformation plan
  • The plan, build, and scale model for transformation
  • Scaling models
  • Putting it all together

Agile and DevOps Roles and Organizational Structure

  • How roles change in Agile and DevOps
  • The transformational leader
  • T-shaped engineering staff
  • Organizational approaches to Agile and DevOps

Wrap Up

  • Your personal leadership and transformation plan
  • Resources
  • Next steps and actions for transformation