A strategic, boardroom-level program for the C-suite and senior leadership sponsoring a move from waterfall to Agile Scrum — and deciding how far AI & agentic tools fit into that shift. These are online project management methodology classes — each class runs one hour and is delivered live online.
Class 01 1 hour
The Business Case for Agile
Why waterfall breaks down under modern delivery pressure, what it costs in missed windows and rework, and how Agile Scrum changes the competitive math for your market.
What you will learn
Where waterfall breaks down: late feedback, big-batch releases, change requests
How to quantify the cost of delay and rework across your own portfolio
The conditions that make Agile the right answer — and when it is not
How competitors delivering iteratively change your market timing
Class 02 1 hour
ROI of Agile AI
How to model the return on an Agile transformation — delivery throughput, cost per release, and the incremental gain when AI & agentic tooling is layered on top.
What you will learn
A working ROI model: throughput, cost per release, defect escape rate
Which baseline metrics to capture before the transformation starts
Where AI & agentic tooling adds measurable lift — and where it does not
Presenting the business case to a board or finance partner
Class 03 1 hour
Risk Reduction & Faster Time-to-Market
How short feedback loops surface risk early, shrink the blast radius of a bad bet, and compress the distance between an approved idea and a shipped increment.
What you will learn
How short feedback loops convert unknown risk into early evidence
Incremental release strategies that limit the blast radius of failure
Reading delivery charts as a risk signal, not a status report
Setting realistic time-to-market expectations for the first three quarters
Class 04 1 hour
Funding & Governance in an Agile Operating Model
Moving from annual project budgets to funding durable teams — and what portfolio governance, stage gates, and status reporting look like once you do.
What you will learn
Funding durable teams versus funding projects, and what changes in the budget cycle
Replacing stage gates with outcome-based checkpoints
What executive status reporting looks like under an Agile operating model
Keeping audit and compliance satisfied through the transition
Class 05 1 hour
Org Design Implications
Team topologies, reporting lines, and the manager role after Agile. What changes structurally, what stays, and where transformations usually stall.
What you will learn
Structuring cross-functional teams around products rather than functions
What happens to the middle-management layer, and how to redeploy it
Where Scrum Masters and Product Owners sit on the org chart
The structural anti-patterns that stall most transformations
Class 06 1 hour
Cultural Shift & Change Leadership
Leading the human side of the change: shifting from status-reporting to outcome ownership, handling resistance, and modeling the behavior you expect from teams.
What you will learn
Shifting the organization from activity reporting to outcome ownership
Naming and addressing the most common sources of resistance
The executive behaviors that signal the change is real
Protecting teams through the messy first two quarters
Class 07 1 hour
AI & Agentic Tools at the Executive Level AI
Setting policy for AI use in delivery work — data boundaries, approved tooling, review expectations — including the restricted-environment version for organizations that limit AI entirely.
What you will learn
Setting an AI use policy for delivery work: data boundaries and approved tools
Human review expectations for AI-generated artifacts
Running the same curriculum in an environment where AI is not permitted
Evaluating vendor AI claims against your own delivery metrics
Class 08 1 hour
The Executive Sponsorship Playbook
Your operating rhythm as a sponsor: the metrics you watch, the questions you ask in reviews, the impediments only you can remove, and the first 90 days of the rollout.
What you will learn
The handful of metrics a sponsor should watch weekly
Questions to ask in sprint reviews that surface real status
Impediments only an executive can remove, and how to clear them quickly
A 90-day rollout sequence with defined checkpoints
Format: 8 online classes × 1 hour each = 8 hours total. Run as one class per week, two half-day blocks, or a single full-day intensive.
Executive sessions are scoped to your organization — industry, size, and current delivery model — and can be delivered as a half-day intensive or a series of focused working sessions.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll talk through your goals, your team, and which Agile Scrum 101™ with AI track fits best — no pressure, no obligation.
