Meeting Facilitation |
Facilitation of a Stand-Up, iteration planning, iteration review, retrospective, or any other meeting. A great way to see how to run a great Agile meeting as well as learn new facilitation techniques. Facilitating non-Agile meetings is a great way to help build bridges with other parts of the organization. |
Team Health Check |
A combination of guided self-assessment and expert opinion to provide a set of recommended action items and suggested service offerings that the team can do on their own or with coaching support. |
Product Visioning |
One of the ingredients of a high performance team is a clear product vision that everyone is able to articulate and believes in. |
Scrum Introduction |
Overview and introduction to Scrum. Uses a series of hands on activities to explain how Scrum works. Training can be anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 days. |
Kanban Introduction |
Overview and introduction to Kanban. Uses a series of hands on activities to explain how Kanban works. Training can be anywhere from 10 minutes to 1 day. |
Board Creation Workshop |
The concept of a wall-board comes from Kanban, but can be applied to any team regardless of their chosen methodology. Also includes material and activities on the benefits of limiting work in progress (WIP) and how to implement WIP limits using a card wall. |
Retrospectives Techniques |
Learn about and practice a wide variety of retrospective formats. Discus the concept of Retrospectives and structure of the session. |
Effective Stand-Up |
Anybody can run a Stand-Up, it doesn’t have to be a Scrum Master or Agile Coach. Deep dive into what makes a Stand-Up effective and how to run one to get the best results. |
Story Points and Planning Poker Workshop |
Story points and planning poker are often misunderstood. This workshop will re-introduce the concepts and use activities to show how planning poker and story points really work. |
Agile Simulations |
Some concepts in Agile are counterintuitive and thus hard to communicate via a conversation or video. Agile simulations are a fun and effective way to impart Agile concepts and provide some team building at the same time. Simulations include: the coin game and the Scrum game, Kanban pizza, etc. (1-day workshop) |
Minimum Viable Product Workshop |
How to create a minimum viable product. Bring your product vision and epics and leave with an MVP. This includes the User Story Mapping technique. |
Product Owner Introduction |
Mini-workshop on how to be a great product owner. Includes product visioning, MVP creation, user story writing, and how to find and deliver the most value using Agile. |
User Story Workshop |
Use of games and other activities to provide a deeper understanding of what a good user story looks like and techniques for how to split large stories into smaller stories. Next, working with the coach to re-write user stories from a team’s backlog. |
Change Management Workshop |
A workshop for leadership to learn about transformation tools such as the Kotter and ADKAR change management models, transformation planning, and ongoing transformation guidance and coaching. |
Mentoring |
1on1 mentoring sessions (Coaching, shadowing, etc.)
• Scrum Master
• Product Owner
• Product Manager
• Agile Delivery Manager
• Release Train Engineer
• Architects
• Facilitator
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Kick-start Coaching |
When a new team is formed, initialize they operation with a coaching session specifically targeted to new teams |