LEADERSHIP BRIEFING • PRIVATE • ONSITE • LIVE VIRTUAL
Agile Leadership Training for Boston Executives
Help managers, directors, and executives understand what Agile requires from leadership, how to monitor progress without undermining teams, and where their decisions have the greatest effect on results.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
A focused leadership briefing or workshop
Duration: Half day or full day
Delivery: Private onsite or live virtual
Format: Executive briefing, discussion, and applied workshop
Best for: Managers, directors, executives, and sponsors
Half or Full Day
Leadership focused
Private Leadership Session
Your leadership group
Onsite or Virtual
Flexible delivery
Since 2010
Established in Boston
AGILE LEADERSHIP FOR DECISION-MAKERS
Lead Agile With the Clarity Your Teams Need
Agile initiatives succeed or fail within the environment leadership creates. This course gives decision-makers enough framework knowledge to sponsor, govern, and support Agile delivery without turning the session into practitioner training.
The private format makes room to examine your organization’s investments, governance expectations, risks, reporting needs, and leadership challenges.
01 — LEARN FASTER
Use Faster Business Feedback
Use iterative delivery to test assumptions, surface uncertainty earlier, and make better investment decisions.
02 — SEE CLEARLY
Improve Project Visibility
Focus leadership attention on transparent evidence of progress, value, risk, quality, and impediments.
03 — ENABLE TEAMS
Create Conditions for Stronger Teams
Provide direction, boundaries, authority, and organizational support without taking ownership away from the team.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For Leaders Accountable for Agile Investment and Outcomes
Bring together the leaders responsible for launching, funding, monitoring, governing, or improving Agile initiatives.
Executive Sponsors
Understand the sponsorship decisions and behaviors that determine whether Agile teams can succeed.
Senior Leaders Evaluating Agile
Evaluate Agile investments, expected benefits, organizational readiness, and realistic implementation risks.
Functional and People Managers
Support team autonomy while continuing to provide direction, coaching, staffing, and organizational alignment.
Program and Portfolio Leaders
Coordinate investment and oversight across initiatives without forcing every team into the same operating pattern.
Governance and Risk Leaders
Use adaptive controls, transparent evidence, and timely feedback to manage uncertainty and accountability.
Product and Technology Leaders
Align product direction, technical realities, organizational constraints, and executive expectations.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
Support the System That Produces Better Business Results
01
Enable Self-Managing Teams
Understand why autonomy improves creativity and productivity, where boundaries still matter, and what support teams need.
02
Use Simple, Meaningful Reporting
Monitor evidence of value, progress, risk, quality, and impediments instead of rewarding administrative activity.
03
Own the Leadership Role
Recognize the decisions, behaviors, governance, and organizational changes that allow iterative delivery to work.
LEADERSHIP BRIEFING OR WORKSHOP
Enough Framework Detail to Make Better Leadership Decisions
Choose a concise half-day briefing or expand the material into a full-day workshop with deeper discussion and application to your organization.
01 — BUSINESS CASE
Why Organizations Choose Agile
- Why Agile remains attractive to organizations
- Common causes of project and product failure
- Agile compared with predictive delivery approaches
- Faster feedback, earlier learning, and reduced risk
02 — SCRUM ESSENTIALS
Scrum Essentials for Leaders
- Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developers, and executive sponsorship
- The purpose of Sprints, planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, and transparent progress
- Values, commitments, inspection, adaptation, and scaling considerations
03 — LEADERSHIP
Leadership, Governance, and Teams
- Executive sponsorship and leadership alignment
- Servant leadership, authority, and team autonomy
- Meaningful reporting, visibility, and decision-making
- Organizational support, structures, and team performance
04 — ADAPTIVE CONTROL
Planning, Risk, and Implementation
- Vision, roadmaps, releases, and Minimum Viable Product
- Risk, change, quality, and return on investment
- Evidence-based controls and adaptive planning
- Organizational change, implementation, and sustaining adoption
BUILT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Build the Session Around the Decisions Your Leaders Face
Private delivery gives leaders room to discuss real investments, governance expectations, organizational constraints, and implementation concerns without turning the session into a generic public class.
Your Initiatives
Connect the discussion to current investments, products, projects, risks, and expected business outcomes.
Your Leadership Group
Align sponsors, managers, directors, and executives around consistent expectations and leadership behaviors.
Your Questions
Use the briefing or workshop to address the practical leadership questions that could accelerate—or quietly undermine—delivery.
TAKE THE LEARNING BACK TO WORK
Keep the Focus on Leadership Decisions
INCLUDED
Concise Executive Reference
Participants receive a focused workbook covering the framework, leadership responsibilities, governance choices, and implementation considerations.
HALF DAY OR FULL DAY
Briefing or Applied Workshop
Use the half-day format for a concise leadership briefing or the full-day format for deeper discussion, examples, and application to your organization.
2010
ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON
CAPE Project Management, Inc.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Agile Training Grounded in Real Delivery
Boston Agile Training is the Agile training practice of Cape Project Management, Inc. Dan Tousignant brings decades of experience across project management, product delivery, Agile implementation, team development, requirements, engineering practices, and organizational change.
The goal is not to promote a framework for its own sake. It is to help your people make better decisions and improve how work gets delivered.
PRIVATE ONSITE & LIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING
Align Your Leaders Around Successful Agile Delivery
Tell us about your leadership audience, current initiatives, and the business decisions or implementation challenges the session should address.