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Description

Agile at Scale: Understanding Frameworks, Synchronising Teams and Making Trade-Offs

Understand what changes when several agile teams must deliver a single product together

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

Agility works well within one team and starts to seize up as soon as five or six teams work on the same product. Dependencies surface at the end of the iteration. Priorities arrive from several directions at once and integration keeps being postponed. Managers then hesitate between returning to detailed planning and stacking up new rituals.

Seven hours to understand what scaling frameworks are designed to solve, and at what cost. The day compares the main multi-team organisation models and provides reference points for choosing without simply copying a model. It prepares the decision rather than deploying a method.

Sessions run in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in person or as a virtual classroom.

Learning objectives

  • Explain the problems that scaling seeks to resolve
  • Compare the main multi-team organisation models
  • Identify dependencies between teams and address them early
  • Describe synchronisation forums and their cadence
  • Recognise the success conditions and failure signals of a transformation

What makes this programme different

The day starts from a real organisation described by the participants
Scaling frameworks are compared on what they impose and what they leave open
A maturity diagnostic is completed for each context represented

Programme

1Why Scale Up

The limits of the single team

  • Identify the symptoms of a team that has grown too large
  • Distinguish a single product from a project portfolio
  • Recognise technical and organisational dependencies
  • Position the role of executive leadership in the approach

2Overview of Scaling Frameworks

What they impose and what they leave open

  • Compare the main families of multi-team organisation
  • Identify the synchronisation forums they have in common
  • Distinguish priority alignment from control over teams
  • Assess the entry cost of each approach

3Synchronisation and Steering

Keeping several teams on a single cadence

  • Organise joint planning for an increment
  • Address dependencies before they become blockers
  • Make progress visible at product level
  • Spot the signals of a transformation losing momentum

Who is it for

Project managers · product team managers · programme leads and professionals already engaged in an agile approach.

Prerequisites

Having taken part in a project run in agile mode.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.