On-site Agile Training and Coaching

Have you read about or been trained on user stories but when faced with your own backlog are having trouble turning ideas into estimatable stories? We can conduct a workshop that will take you from zero to a usable product backlog.

Release planning is one of the most important, and least understood, elements of a successful agile implementation. Let us show you how to take your prioritized backlog and estimated velocity and turn that into a release plan you can count on.

Anyone who has ever worked on a new Scrum team knows that the first planning meetings can be painful, as team members learn to work together in a new way. Let us help make your first meetings run more smoothly so that team members' first introduction to Scrum is a positive one.

Retrospectives and reviews. You know you should have them and you can see their value, but you cannot quite figure out how to make the most of the time you have. Or maybe your reviews and retrospectives have stopped being effective tools for generating improvement ideas. Whatever the case, we can help facilitate a review and retrospective that will help move your team toward continued success with Scrum and agile.

Many new ScrumMasters and teams struggle with the initial daily scrum meetings. Too often they degenerate into deep dives that last way too long or surface-level status reports. Let us work with you to keep your daily scrums running as they were intended.

One of the toughest things to do with a new process is launch it. Second only to getting started is staying the course when things get tough. We can give you a foundation that will help your team and organization ADAPT to the practices and principles of Scrum and agile in a way that will lead to long-term success.

The team is trained and onboard. The ScrumMaster and Product Owner are comfortable in their roles. But to be successful, the entire organization must understand how to work inside the new process and practices. We can speak to executives and other key stakeholders in a language that they understand about the way in which business must adapt to the changes Scrum and agile will ping.

There are as many reasons why people might resist change as there are ways to overcome that resistance. We can help you meet the unique challenges that reluctant team members present in your agile adoption.