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Training: Agile Fundamentals
For a big Organizational change like Agile Transformation, it is essential to start right. Our participative and experiential trainings approach ensures participants walk out with the right knowledge, high motivation and good confidence in getting started with Agile ways of working.
The following trainings cover the necessary fundamentals and can be customized based on the target audience:
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Performance and Predictability
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Systems Thinking for Product Development
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Visualization and Metrics
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Improving Team Performance
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Improving Flow Predictability
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User Story writing workshop
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Adopting Story Point estimation
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Leadership Alignment for Systemic Improvement
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Team Alignment for Collaboration
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Effective Agile Leader
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Effective Scrum Facilitation
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Coaching Skills for Leaders
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Lean Concepts for Leaders
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Content Outline: The following agenda is for a 2-day training that can be customized to a shorter duration depending on training needs:
[All topics include active discussions and group activities.]
1. Introduction to Agile – What, Why, When and How?
2. Overview of Scrum – Values, Roles and Artifacts
3. Managing Requirements – User Stories, Estimation and Prioritization
4. Release Planning – Balancing Scope and Schedule
5. Sprint Execution - Scrum Events
6. Monitoring Team Progress - Scrum Metrics
7. Succeeding with Agile and Scrum
Contrary to popular belief, Kanban can be used for product development as well as support/operations work. Kanban uses item-based continuous flow, somewhat different than Scrum's batch flow (start-stop cycles) – focusing on establishing and sustaining a smooth flow of work, from LEFT (commitment point) to RIGHT (completion point).
Kanban has a rich set of metrics that help bring objectivity in team’s continuous improvement efforts.
Content Outline: All topics include active discussions and/or group activities.
1. Kanban Principles and Core Practices
2. Visualize Work
3. Limit work in progress
4. Manage flow of work – Kanban Metrics
5. Kanban Team meetings
6. Getting started with Kanban
7. Triggers for switching from Scrum to Kanban
Content Outline: The following agenda is for a 1-day training that can be customized for a shorter duration:
1. User Stories
– User Story format, Slicing stories, Requirements hierarchy
2. Story Point Estimation - Why, What, How, and FAQ's
– Common estimation challenges
– How to do it right?
– How to get started?
3. Prioritization
– Factors to consider, Popular models, Key guidelines
Scrum Guide provides minimal guidance on how to do Sprint Planning. As a result, most teams continue to use a primitive version, with legacy ideas (waterfall) and very limited collaboration among team members.
With no guidance in Scrum Guide for Release Planning, it is an even bigger challenge, and most organizations continue to use their custom approach that is heavily biased by stakeholder wishlists and is poorly aligned with Agile mindset.
Content Outline:
1. Planning basics
- Demand vs Capability
- Scope vs Schedule
2. Sprint Planning
- Planning variations - based on team maturity
- Common challenges and solutions
- Tracking Sprint execution and adapting Sprint plan
3. Release Planning
- Release Planning for a single team
- Release Planning for multiple teams
- Common challenges and solutions
- Tracking Release execution and adapting Release plan
