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You passed
the exam.
Now what?

Your Agile or Scrum certification got you through the door. AGILELITE is what prepares you for what is behind it — the real corporate world of delivery, dysfunction, and getting things done anyway.

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8
Live sessions
3 hours each
10
Learners maximum
No exceptions
0
Certificates issued
Intentionally
6–8
Real artefacts built
Yours to keep
The gap no certification fills

What they taught you.
What they didn't.

Every certification programme teaches the framework. None of them teach you to operate inside the corporate reality that surrounds it. These are the situations waiting for you on the other side of your credential.

The absent Product Owner
She has written no acceptance criteria for the sprint starting Monday. She is in a commercial bid meeting. You have a planning session in two hours.
The retitled project manager
His title says Scrum Master. He runs sprint planning as a requirements gathering meeting and calls the daily standup the daily status call.
The Gantt-first PMO
She needs every sprint outcome mapped to a Gantt milestone baseline. She has never used Jira and considers velocity a made-up metric.
The invisible sponsor
He approved the budget. He has not attended a sprint review in three months. He just quoted your velocity number at a board meeting. Incorrectly.
The mid-sprint crisis
A contractor handed in his notice three weeks ago. Nobody told you. He takes 40% of the API integration knowledge with him in two weeks.
The regulatory surprise
A compliance requirement just appeared. It is urgent, real, and not in the backlog. The CAB process takes five business days. Sprint ends Friday.
What AGILELITE is

A practitioner lab.
Not another course.

Eight live sessions. Ten learners maximum. One fictional corporate organisation so real it will make you uncomfortable. You are not a student in this room. You are a practitioner from minute one.

There is no certificate at the end. This is intentional. A certificate would contradict the entire premise of AGILELITE.

01 — The case file method
Every session opens mid-crisis
No slides. No agenda. You receive a one-page Meridian PLC briefing document five minutes before the session and walk in already thinking.
02 — Rotating corporate roles
You play every side of the table
Delivery manager, Product Owner, resistant stakeholder, passive PMO. By session eight you have felt what it is like to be every person in the most difficult conversations.
03 — Live artefact production
You build, not fill in worksheets
Every session produces a real document in a real tool under session pressure. These become your portfolio of proof.
04 — The unannounced complication
The corporate world arrives uninvited
At the 30-minute mark of every workshop, something changes. A stakeholder escalation. A team resignation. A scope request. No warning. Every time.
05 — Honest teardown
One standard: would this pass?
Your artefacts are reviewed against one question: would a senior delivery manager at a FTSE 250 firm accept this? If not, you will be told precisely why.
06 — 30-day alumni access
For when reality arrives
After the programme closes, 30 days of direct practitioner access for the real problems your first corporate role will surface in weeks two and three.
Your training ground

Meridian PLC

Every session takes place inside a single fictional organisation. By session eight you will know it better than some organisations you have actually worked in. These are the people you will need to manage.

Programme Sponsor
Richard Beaumont
Signed off on Agile because a consultant told him to. Has never attended a sprint review. Communicates exclusively via PA-forwarded emails. His phrase when things go wrong: "I thought Agile was supposed to be flexible?"
Product Owner
Priya Sharma
Head of Digital Operations. Extremely intelligent and chronically overcommitted across four workstreams. Backlog has 340 items. No acceptance criteria written below three words on any of them. She means well. She is never available.
Scrum Master (on paper)
Marcus Webb
Former project manager retitled as a compromise when the PMO refused to eliminate his role. Runs sprint planning as a requirements gathering meeting. Calls the daily standup the daily status call.
PMO Director
Diane Chen
Insists all programme spend be tracked against a Gantt baseline. Requires a change request for any scope alteration. Has never used Jira. Considers velocity a made-up metric. Not the villain. Just protecting what has always worked.
The Development Team
Patrick, Aisha, Jamie, Yemi & Leon
Five developers. Two contractors. Leon is shared with another project. Patrick has handed in his notice but hasn't told anyone yet. The team is competent. The environment is not.
Agile Delivery Manager — You
Grace Okoro
Newly hired. Day one. Stepping into Project Apex with a certification, good intentions, and no map. Nothing in the building is as described in the job advert. This is the avatar every learner inhabits across all eight sessions.
The programme

Eight sessions.
Chronological order.
No fluff.

The sequence mirrors the actual lifecycle of a corporate Agile programme from first week to close-out. Every session builds on the last. Every session produces something real.

01
The corporate reality check
Why Agile fails in most corporate environments. The four structural dysfunctions. Reading the room before you speak.
Phase 1
02
Delivery anatomy, end to end
The full lifecycle in chronological order. What documentation should exist at each phase, in what order, and why.
Phase 1
03
Documentation that earns its place
Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, acceptance criteria, backlog architecture. Documents that serve delivery, not the audit.
Phase 2
04
Detecting risk before it kills you
RAID logs as early warning systems. Lead versus lag indicators. The three-sentence escalation structure that works on senior stakeholders.
Phase 2
05
Stakeholder management without the spin
Power and interest dynamics. Managing upward without losing credibility. Handling sprint review pushback. The disengaged sponsor.
Phase 3
06
Metrics that reveal, not deceive
Velocity anti-patterns. Cycle time. Team health. Using data to hold the difficult conversations every delivery manager avoids.
Phase 3
07
Operating in a bipolar world
Agile delivery inside waterfall governance. Change Advisory Boards. Dual reporting. Running a real sprint inside a Gantt-governed programme.
Phase 4
08
The simulation
Full end-to-end programme simulation under live pressure. Close-out report. Formal retrospective. Portfolio completion. Both facilitators in character.
Phase 4
What you build and keep

A portfolio no
certificate can replace.

By session eight you will have built and own six to eight real artefacts. Documents produced under pressure in real tools that you can walk into any interview and show as evidence of competence.

The Meridian Delivery Playbook
A complete end-to-end Agile delivery playbook for a corporate programme, built section by section across sessions one to seven.
Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
Written to a standard that would satisfy both a development team and a resistant PMO simultaneously. Not a template. A real document.
A live RAID log with escalation notes
Maintained and updated through real programme risk events, including entries written under the pressure of a mid-exercise complication.
A full stakeholder communication plan
Covering all six Meridian characters, with cadence, channel, message strategy, and escalation triggers for each.
A delivery health dashboard
Velocity trend, cycle time analysis, team health scores and a probabilistic delivery forecast, built from real programme data.
A dual reporting pack
The same sprint period reported in Agile terms for the delivery team and in governance terms for the PMO. Same data. Two completely different documents. Both accurate.
Programme close-out report and retrospective
Structured as a formal document suitable for a SteerCo and as a handover brief for an incoming delivery manager.
Grace Okoro's learning log
Your personal reflection on what you would do differently across the programme. In practice, a reflection on your eight-session journey that belongs entirely to you.
Investment

What it costs.
What it includes.

Format
Online — eight live facilitated sessions
Duration
3 hours per session across 4 to 6 weeks
Cohort size
Maximum 10 learners without exception
Facilitators
Both lead practitioners on every session
Tools
Zoom, Miro, Notion, Slack — all provided
Post-programme
30 days alumni community access
Certificate
None issued — this is the point
Programme investment
£1,800
per learner, all 8 sessions included
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All session materials and artefact templates
Meridian PLC Organisation Brief and programme pre-reading
Access to the cohort Notion workspace and Miro boards
Cohort Slack channel throughout the programme
30 days post-programme alumni community access
Both facilitators present for every session, every time
Ready to begin

Stop being certified.
Start being ready.

The next AGILELITE cohort is forming. Ten seats. When it is full, the next available date goes to the waiting list. Contact us to reserve your place or request the full programme prospectus.

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Maximum 10 learners per cohort  ·  No exceptions  ·  No certificate  ·  No passenger seats