XSCALE Alliance

• You have to take time off work when work won't wait.
• Learning is crammed into a couple of days with no time to reflect or research.
• Trainers don't have coalface experience and can't answer real world questions.
• If you're late to a session, there's no time to catch you up.

We train live online instead

• Couse sessions run outside work hours, so you don't take time out of work.
• The 3-hour sessions run twice a week so you have time to think and question.
• We're not trainers but senior coaches with decades of experience solving real problems.
• If you miss a session you can catch another one like carriages of a train.

Change programs that try to train everyone magnify risks of disruption and compromise. They create cognitive dissonace as framework vendors declare their change "is working" while, like the emperor's new clothes, no one can explain what top-line benefit "working" is delivers.

XSCALE simplifies change. Its Self-propagating transformation starts small and fast, not big and slow, with participants learning by immersion, not instruction. This way it proves the new capability through concrete business outcomes, using feedback on these to guide growth and open change bottlenecks as soon as they occur. It makes business agility the goal, not an afterthought to agile-in-IT.

Training without coaching has proven highly counterproductive. But training is very useful to bring the pioneers of a transformation up to speed. Change participants use our training collateral as they develop into change leaders in turn. This is why the XSCALE training decks are distributed under the open Creative Commons licenses.

You can't train someone to be an agile coach. People develop coaching skills by practicing them in the field. It takes years of real world experience, not training, to become qualified as a Coach in the XSCALE learning ecosystem.

As a practical skill, there are no shortcuts, but our ecosystem of independent coaches share learnings continuously and collaborate on making them available as open training collateral. XSCALE Stewards mentor and consult with XSCALE's community of coaches to bring decades of perspective to the generation of working business capability, not a greasy pole of certificates.