Business Agility Patterns and Antipatterns (BVSSH)
“I want more effective ways to improve speed to value delivery”
Access a wealth of knowledge, in a well structured and highly collaborative environment

Upcoming Classes
Patterns and Antipatterns
May 9th-12th 2023
11:00-14:00 (4x3hr) New York
16:00-19:00 (4x3hr) London
17:00-20:00 (4x3hr) Zurich
Online
Patterns and Antipatterns
June 19th-22nd 2023
13:00-16:00 (4x 3hr) Sydney
15:00-18:00 (4x 3hr) Wellington
10:00-13:00 (4x 3hr) Singapore
Online
Patterns and Antipatterns
September 11th-14th 2023
13:00-16:00 (4x 3hr) Sydney
15:00-18:00 (4x 3hr) Wellington
10:00-13:00 (4x 3hr) Singapore
Online
Patterns and Antipatterns
September 25th-28th 2023
11:00-14:00 (4x3hr) New York
16:00-19:00 (4x3hr) London
17:00-20:00 (4x3hr) Zurich
Online
Who is this course for?
- Ways of Working Leads (Digital/Agile/DevOps)
- Enterprise Coach in business agility
- Centre of Enablement Leads & Coaches
- Transformation Directors and Leads
- Ways of Working Consultants
- Heads of Change
Create a great vision for your potential future state. This course will help you improve value delivery and achieve your goals by focusing on the outcomes and not the dates. Articulate your ambition with leading and lagging measures, and to optimise your system of work by determining success metrics.
Help you to influence senior leaders and energise your organisation with a clear ‘why change’ narrative and jargon-free language. Finally, let us help you achieve transformation through rapid small steps – start small, and start!

Course Pricing
Northern + Western Europe, USA Standard
Rest of the World
Learn from practical examples how to implement patterns in your own work
What to expect
Logistics
- This is a 2-day class running as 2 x 6 hr or 4 x 3 hr sessions
- In addition it includes a 45 minute 1:1 coaching session
- A copy of Sooner Safer Happier as the course text
- Early bird discount of 10% available for bookings and payment made at least 1 month in advance
- For private classes, please enquire for availability and bulk discount
Social and climate commitment
Price includes funding of a tree per participant making your participation in the remote class 200x carbon positive over the life of the tree, via our charity partner Treesisters.
Course syllabus
- Focus on outcomes – over doing an ‘Agile Transformation’
- Achieve big through small – over achieve big through big
- Invitation to optimise – over inflicting one way of working
- Leadership role models – over delegating the change
- Maintaining customer focus
- Write your own nested outcomes with key results
- Articulate thin slices of value
- Build alignment and transparency across the enterprise
- Whole organisation learning – over Agile in IT only
- Build the right thing – over water-scrum-fall projects
- Build the thing right – over one-size-fits-all controls
- Go slower to go faster – over a digital feature factory
- Visualise flow and discover sources of delay
- Create a focus on continuous improvement
- Measure for learning
- Using OpenSpace to pop the bubbles
Start your journey
Book your course now to learn from experts in the field.