Coaching Services

 

If you are interested in any of our services below or want to chat about your own unique needs please contact us today. Our approach to coaching is practical and customized to your specific organization culture and goals. Please see our list of client testimonials.

Getting Started with Agile

Goal: Pilot new Agile project management (Scrum) and software engineering methods on a few projects to assess results and get buy-in.
Phase 1 - Pilot Agile Methods

• Organization Assessment and Adoption Roadmap
• Management/Team Education on Agile/Scrum
• Pilot Project Jump Start Coaching with includes:
  • Build the Product Backlog
  • Story writing/brainstorming workshop
  • Non functional story writing
  • Story prioritizing and sizing using points
  • Agile project workbook setup
  • Determine iteration length
  • Team’s definition of Done
  • Identify initial estimated team velocity
  • Build Release Plan (schedule all iterations with stories up to release date)
  • Iteration 0 Planning
  • Story discussion and acceptance test creation
  • Task breakdown
  • Visual task board setup
• Ongoing Iteration Coaching
• Adoption Assessment and Recommendations

Phase 2 - Maturity:  

• Improve Product Owner Collaboration
• Scale Agile to Large /Complex Projects
• Improve Software Engineering Practices
• Improve Team Dynamics and Collaboration

 Strategic Leadership & High Performance Transformation

Goal: Transform a specific area’s ability to deliver business value by transforming the leadership style, creating high performing teams and developing lean efficient processes.
This is a long term multi-year transformation that moves through several phases with specific goals and measurements of achievements. Contact us to find out more.

• Transformation Assessment and Roadmap.
• Team Skills Assessment and Roadmap.
• Education on Servant Leadership, High Performance, Lean, Facilitation.
• Transformation Phases are:  Transform the Leaders > Transform the Teams and Processes > Transform the Culture.

Project Recovery / Steering

Goal: Recover a specific troubled project and get it back on track or steer a project gently towards the desired end goal.

• Project Assessment, Retrospective and Recommendations
• Management/Team Education
• Release Planning and Gap Analysis
• Project Steering/Coaching