Implement Agile Practices That Work
Agile is a cultural shift. Don't just do Agile, be Agile.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Many Agile implementations fail due to:
- A lack of experience and understanding of what Agile really is, and the problems it is trying to solve. When these projects fail, Agile often gets blamed for it.
- A lack of management support, inflexible organizational culture, resistance from team members, and insufficient training.
Successfully implement Agile at your organization by:
- Educating and training your executive, management, and delivery teams through our on-site workshops to adopt Agile the right way.
- Assessing your current SDLC, culture, and environment to evaluate Agile fit and determine what changes need to be made.
- Conducting a structured evaluation of Agile with all relevant stakeholders to assess and recognize the benefits of Agile in your organization and teams.
- Developing an iterative approach to rolling out Agile with analysts on-premises by simulating the scrum process across delivery teams.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Lead and Manage Agile
The Purpose
- Build knowledge and support for Agile practices across different layers of your organization.
- Build knowledge of Agile practices and concepts across the executive and management teams to drive the change.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Facilitate learning for your organization’s executives and management.
- Agile practices and principles.
- Baseline Agile practices.
- Key tools that support Agile practices that work.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Compare Agile and Waterfall delivery. |
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| 1.2 | Decode Agile: Principles, terminology, and roles. |
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| 1.3 | Product owners and product agility. |
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| 1.4 | Enterprise agility and the value of change. |
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| 1.5 | Lead, manage, and govern Agile teams. |
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| 1.6 | Define your Agile principles. |
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| 1.7 | Commit to Agile. |
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Module 2: Introduction to Agile and Agile Culture
The Purpose
- Determine the gaps in your organization’s current environment and culture before implementing Agile to ensure success.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of your team and organization’s culture and how this impacts adopting Agile practices.
- SWOT analysis.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Assess Agile culture. |
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| 2.2 | SWOT analysis. |
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Module 3: Assess Current State and Understand the Scrum Process
The Purpose
- Evaluate your team and organization’s current environment as it relates to your SDLC process to determine how Agile can best be implemented.
- Understand the baseline scrum process as a starting point to adopting good Agile practices.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed SDLC stage-gates.
- SDLC process flow.
- Pain points in SDLC as they relate to Agile.
- Identify and evaluate business value definitions.
- Identify "ready" and "done" definitions.
- Understand the baseline scrum methodology and practices.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify and describe SDLC stage-gates. |
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| 3.2 | Draw current SDLC. |
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| 3.3 | Determine pain points in SDLC. |
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| 3.4 | Identify and evaluate business value definitions. |
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| 3.5 | Identify “ready” and “done” definitions. |
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