AI-Native Intensive with AI-Native Foundations Professional & AI Value Architect certifications

Foundations build your personal AI capability. Value Architect teaches you to turn AI activity into measurable value across teams and organisations. They're designed to be taken in sequence. The Intensive delivers both in a single Melbourne week.

The Melbourne Intensive is for the people expected to make AI work in their organisation — not by building models, but by developing the capability to use AI well and lead AI work end to end.

This course is suited to you if:

• you're a consultant, coach, or transformation lead guiding AI adoption across teams and stakeholders
• you sit between business and delivery and are asked to align priorities, people, and decisions around AI initiatives
• you're a project, programme, or delivery leader accountable for AI outcomes
• you want to build personal AI capability and step into a more active role in leading AI initiatives

No technical background is required. No prior AI certification is needed before the Foundations days.

Participants commonly include consultants, agile coaches, transformation leads, project and programme managers, product and delivery leaders, solutions architects, and senior practitioners from enterprise, government, and mid-market organisations across Australia and New Zealand.

After completing the Melbourne Intensive, you'll be able to:

• coach teams and individuals through AI adoption
• unlock measurable value from the AI workflows and tools your organisation already has
• align stakeholders across business, delivery, risk, and governance
• design AI initiatives that are viable, fundable, and adoptable
• guide delivery through uncertainty as constraints shift
• redesign workflows using appropriate AI approaches safely
• explain AI concepts clearly in plain English
• measure outcomes and carry learning forward

Across four days, you'll work on real scenarios and your own organisational context.

On the Foundations days, you'll redesign a real workflow from your own organisation, estimate the impact, and leave with a first-30-days activation plan.

On the Value Architect days, yyou'll work in small teams through a hands-on solution development simulation: diagnosing a stalled AI initiative, redesigning the solution approach, aligning stakeholders, and building a roadmap to production

Throughout all four days, you'll use AI actively — generating questions, testing options, and supporting facilitation — while keeping human judgement and accountability front and centre.

You won't be building models or learning tools. You'll be developing the judgment and capability to use AI well and to lead AI work end-to-end.

Pretty Agile is the AI-Native Charter Partner for Australia and New Zealand, selected by Scaled Agile from over 80 applicants globally.

What Pretty Agile brings to the delivery:

• trainers who use AI daily in consulting and enterprise delivery, not trainers reading slides
• the same trainer across all four days, so context built in Foundations carries directly into the Value Architect work without re-entry cost
• practical fluency across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and other tools, so facilitation adapts to whatever your team actually uses
• Australian and New Zealand enterprise context applied throughout, including governance, risk, and procurement realities
• 94% of Pretty Agile's AI-Native Foundations participants reported increased confidence in applying AI, across all deliveries for public and private clients

Designed by Scaled Agile. Delivered by Pretty Agile. Focused on helping organisations use AI deliberately, safely, and well.

Days 1–2: AI-Native Foundations

AI-Native thinking and the EDGE forces: Understand what's changing and why, and what it means to work AI-Native in a real organisational context.

AI in plain English: How GenAI works and what it can and can't do. Covers LLMs, prompting, safe use, RAG, and intelligent agents — no technical background required.

The 7 AI-Native Success Factors: What makes adoption stick: upskilling, context, workflow integration, learning loops, value alignment, and governance.

Workflow redesign and business brief: Redesign one of your own workflows using the right AI approach, and capture it in a format ready for a low-risk organisational pilot.

AI as your Thought Partner: Move beyond task execution. Practise challenging assumptions, expanding options, and stress-testing ideas before committing to a direction.

Roadmap to AI-Native: Build a practical plan for moving from individual capability to team influence and organisational impact.

Days 3–4: AI-Native Value Architect

The Value Architect role and the human work: Why AI initiatives stall, how to spot failure patterns early, and how to unlock value from the AI tools and investments your organisation already has.

Discovery and stakeholder alignment: How to run discovery that surfaces the real problem, constraints, and stakeholders — and how to facilitate alignment across diverse groups.

Designing a viable AI solution: A hands-on simulation translating business needs into a realistic AI solution approach, including data strategy, production operations, and risk as design inputs — through to a roadmap to production.

On-demand modules (2 hours, SAFe Studio)

Value Architect core content completed in your own time. Required before you can take the certification exam.