Agile Coaching
Release Planning
The Release Planning workshop is designed to get the team ready to deliver their next 3-6 month release. The focus of this workshop is to establish the product and technology direction of release, identify major delivery risks, and create the master prioritized product backlog. This workshop is typically conducted as a 2-day, onsite session, with everyone that will participate in building the product. read more…
Iteration Planning
You’ve done all the up-front planning necessary to get the release off to a good start. Now it’s time to start the work. Sprint planning is the first step when you are using time-boxed iterations. This session is designed to help you learn how to break down the work, create your big visible information radiators, and to estimate what you will be able to complete during the sprint. The first goal of any agile team is not going faster, it is to become predictable.
This session will help you get started down that path. read more…
Review and Retrospective
This workshop is designed to help the team through their first or second review and retrospective. Using their real in-flight product release, the team will demonstrate their working software and compare how they did against their sprint commitment. They will get final acceptance from their product owner, and hopefully have the opportunity to learn from their experience building the emerging product. The team will learn how to conduct an effective retrospective, to create a safe environment for exploring issues and challenges, and look at how things went so they can help make things better. read more…
Team Coaching
Sometimes it makes sense to have someone onsite to help the team with the day-to-day challenges of running an agile project. This offering includes activities such as pairing with the onsite agile coach or ScrumMaster, coaching the PMO on how to work with agile teams, running the daily meetings, and keeping up with the critical release metrics. Sometimes it helps having access to an experienced agile coach, just to answer the day-to-day questions that are going to inevitably arise as you learn to become more agile. read more…
Enterprise Coaching
The larger the enterprise, the more complicated your needs are. We recognize goals are much more strategic in nature. In order to be successful, change needs to start at the top. We will help you focus on both your culture and your roadmap.