Optimize the Current Agile Process for Scalability to Prepare for a Wider Rollout
Use your retrospectives and experiences from previous Agile sprints to continually improve and optimize.
RETIRED CONTENT
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 This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Maintaining a rigid Agile framework causes:
- Delayed product delivery due to the unique impediments each team experiences in their respective projects and sprints
- Conflicting viewpoints and finger-pointing because of the various personalities and roles within each team
- Deviations from the Agile values and principles outlined in the Agile manifesto
Flexible and continuously evolving your Agile implementation results in:
- Processes that are specifically tailored to the specific organizational culture and personalities and dynamics within each team
- Refinements to the Agile culture to enhance the importance of collaboration, learning, and empowerment
- Products that are tightly aligned to changing business expectations and needs
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Module 1: Optimize the Agile Process for Scalability
The Purpose
- Stay focused on stakeholder expectations
- Anticipate common Agile pitfalls
- Stay focused on your culture to ease new teams into Agile
- Keep scalability in mind when arranging your teams
Key Benefits Achieved
- An understanding of the common Agile challenges
- A case to begin optimizing and scaling out Agile to multiple teams
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| 1.1 | Measure your reliency against further Agile adoption |
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Module 2: Build and Train the Team to Begin Scaling Out the Agile Process
The Purpose
- Conduct both technical and soft skills training with the entire team
- Leverage an Agile coach in your training sessions and Agile sprints
- Overcome challenges when fostering an Agile culture
- Realize the shift in roles when you scale out Agile
Key Benefits Achieved
- An understanding of the importance of an Agile coach and enhancing an Agile culture
- A clear description of the roles and responsibilities of your Agile teams with scalability in mind
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| 2.1 | Establish the roles and responsibilities of your optimized and scaled-out Agile teams |
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Module 3: Compile a List of Lessons Learned From Previous Agile Projects
The Purpose
- Conduct retrospectives to reveal your team’s past experiences with Agile
- Benchmark your Agile practices against the principles and values in the Agile manifesto
- Assess your metrics to validate your team’s pain points and uncover additional issues
- Write your Agile optimization user stories that addresses your team’s needs
Key Benefits Achieved
- A list of pain points experienced by your team in past projects and sprints
- An evaluation of metrics of past projects
- Sized and prioritized Agile optimization user stories
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| 3.1 | Draw your current Agile process |
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| 3.2 | Assess your alignment to the principles of the Agile manifesto |
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| 3.3 | Conduct your retrospective |
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| 3.4 | Write your optimization user stories |
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| 3.5 | Size and prioritize your optimization user stories |
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Module 4: Break Down Optimization User Stories and Execute the Sprint
The Purpose
- Reinforce your Agile culture with quick wins
- Address the common issues and risks of your Agile process: large and distributed teams, project and sprint planning, retrospectives, and demonstrations
- Acquire and configure tools to support your Agile implementation
- Break down your user stories into achievable tasks
- Plan for various team sentiments during the execution of your sprint
Key Benefits Achieved
- Suggested solutions to help resolve the issues you identified in the previous module of this workshop
- List of tasks for each of your user stories
- Strategies to handle potential issues during your Agile sprints
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| 4.1 | Break down your optimization user stories into achievable tasks |
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| 4.2 | Define plans to deal with resistance to change, objections, and fatigue |
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| 4.3 | Draw your optimized Agile process |
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Module 5: Review the Optimized Agile Process with a Retrospective
The Purpose
- Focus on continuous improvement in order to regularly improve performance
- Validate and monitor your optimized Agile process
- Reflect on the success or failure of your optimized Agile process
- Begin to add more Agile teams, if necessary
Key Benefits Achieved
- A list of new issues to address in the next Agile sprint
- Next steps to continuously scale out Agile
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 5.1 | Evaluate your optimization initiatives with retrospectives and metrics |
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