Implement Agile Practices That Work
Agile is a cultural shift. Don't just do Agile, be Agile.
Onsite Workshop
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.
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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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.
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