Actionable Agile Heath Check that will identify opportunities to help you make the most of agile in your environment, enabling you to create better outcomes for your teams and customers.
Agile Health Check Includes:
Access to a Principal Agile Practitioner with 15+ experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods.
A report that can be shared at all levels within your organisation identifying insight including opportunities and recommended actions for teams to maximize effectiveness of agile processes.
Who is this for:
Organisations that are not getting the expected benefits from agile.
Frustrated and demotivated teams where processes are clashing with the wider organisations.
Teams falling back to traditional legacy methods and not achieve benefits of agile.
Inconsistency of approach across the organisation causing additional work within the teams.
Lack of clear prioritisation between technical teams, customers and leadership direction.
Set your scrum team up for success. A Scrum Start Up workshop working with your team on your projects to quickly and effectively create a repeatable pattern that maximises the potential of the scrum team, reduces risk and enables the team to generate more successful products and better customer outcomes.
Through facilitated workshops we work collaboratively with the Scrum Teams to develop the pattern for future sprints, this includes:
Access to two Principal Agile Practitioner with 15+ experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods.
Facilitated workshops where we work collaboratively with the Scrum teams to develop the pattern for future sprints, this will include:
Immersion for the Scrum team in agile framework and values, to ensure a common understand across the team
Identification of the scope of the sprint deliverable specific to your organisation.
Scrum team members roles and responsibilities and what to expect from each other during the lifecycle of a sprint.
All scrum ceremonies planned with clear purpose, attendees and outcomes.
Identification of any possible challenges and how potentially to resolve prior to Sprint Kick Off
The conclusion of the workshop is the completion of the Sprint Planning Ceremony to enable the Scrum team to begin the day following the workshop.
Who is this for:
Scrum teams that are on their journey with agile, but would like help to maximise the value of agile.
Scrum teams that are just starting their journey with agile and are looking to set themselves up for success and avoid the challenges and pitfalls that most organisations encounter.
Teams with newly trained or junior scrum masters and product owners that lack significant practical experience of implementing scrum methodologies.
Teams that are falling back to traditional legacy methods often where lack of practical experience exists.
Frustrated and demotivated teams where agile is clashing with the wider organisation.
Get the most out of your investment in your people, supporting and expanding the capabilities of your scrum masters and product owners by ensuring they have the right coaching and mentoring in place without the expense of a full time agile coach.
Includes:
1 hour mentoring/coaching sessions with a Principle Agile Practioner with 15+ experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods – at a frequency that suits your business and individual needs.
Hand-picked coach/mentor with closely aligned skills and experience to get the maximum out of the mentee relationship.
Who is this for:
Anyone in the scrum team that is on their journey with agile, but would benefit from the support of a highly experienced agile practitioner.
Individuals within teams that include newly trained or junior scrum masters and product owners that lack significant practical experience of implementing scrum methodologies.
Frustrated and demotivated teams where agile is clashing with the wider organisations where a coach or mentor can support helping them on that journey.
Teams that are falling back to traditional legacy methods often where lack of practical experience exists.
Effective and a regular cadence of scrum ceremonies is the key to creating a successful agile environment. Make sure your teams get the right guidance and support to help plan, run and review their ceremonies to create the outcomes that their customers need.
Who is this for:
Anyone on the Agile journey that are not getting the results and engagement they want from the team during sprint ceremonies or the sprint lifecycle.
The ceremonies are not quite working and individuals within teams that include newly trained or junior scrum masters and product owners lack significant practical experience of implementing or how to interact within these ceremonies.
Frustrated and demotivated teams, with a ‘what’s the point of these ceremonies’ type attitude.
Teams that are falling back to traditional legacy methods often where lack of practical experience exists.
Ceremony Workshop:
A workshop run by Principal Agile Practitioner with 15+ experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods. The purpose is to immerse the team in the scrum ceremonies to ensure consistent understanding and identify their current pitfalls.
121 Sessions
121 Sessions with scrum team members to understand their interaction with the ceremonies and any challenges or opportunities to improve.
Ceremony Review
Ceremony review where our practitioners will sit in on a number of ceremonies to identify any areas of improvement working collaboratively with the Scrum team.
Ceremony Planning and Support
Work with the scrum master to support the planning, agenda and organisation of ceremonies
Ceremony support – practitioners will support the Scrum Master in running sprint ceremonies with a 1-2-1 review after each ceremony.
Identification of a number of improvements that can be made by the scrum team.
Create more successful products and better customer outcomes by maximising the value and potential of the scrum team and give them the best chance of success by ensuring the whole agile scrum team understands how to operate effectively within an agile scrum environment.
Includes:
Facilitated workshop where we work collaboratively with the scrum teams to ensure each member has a comprehensive grounding in agile scrum methodology understanding how to operate effectively in a scrum team.
Access to two Principal Agile Practitioners with 15+ experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods.
Agile Immersion Workshop includes:
Immersion for the entire scrum team in agile framework and values, to ensure a common understand across the team.
Review of scrum ceremonies, what to expect, what to bring and how to get the most out of them.
Understand roles and responsibilities of each member of the team during the sprint lifecycle.
Review of challenges and pitfalls of agile along with best practices to avoid these before they happen.
Who is this for:
Newly formed scrum teams that have traditionally utilised more waterfall based methodologies for project delivery.
Scrum teams that are just starting their journey with agile and are looking to set themselves up for success and avoid the challenges and pitfalls that most organisations encounter.
Scrum Masters who need to get their team up and running quickly with agile practices.
Scrum Teams with a lack of practical experience in utilising scrum techniques.
Scrum teams that are on their journey with agile, but would like to help to maximise the value of agile.
Teams that have had some agile training or experience but have not used these skills recently and would benefit from a refresher.
We will help your teams with an actionable plan that addresses the complexities of embedding agile practices into your pre-existing rigid governance organisations. This provides your employees and agile teams with techniques and mechanisms that can be used to ensure the organisation can work seamlessly with agile in a way that works within your existing goverance or regulatory frameworks.
Includes:
Access to two Principal Agile/Lean Practitioners with 15+ experience real world experience of running agile teams and delivering technology products using agile methods.
Plan of activity that can be shared at all levels within your organisation identifying:
Specific conflicts from governance / processes that are impacting the effectiveness of agile teams.
Actionable insight including opportunities and recommendations for teams to maximise the effectiveness of agile processes.
Who is this for:
Organisations the are not getting the expected benefits from agile.
Frustrated and demotivated teams where agile clashes with the wider organisations governance and processes.
Teams are falling back to traditional legacy methods and not achieve benefits of agile.
Organisations that are experience issues with Inconsistency of approach across different areas using agile methodologies.
Teams that are facing a lack of clear prioritisation between technical teams, customers and leadership direction.
