For our May event, Mark Grove presented on Interpreting Cumulative Flow Diagrams. Abstract The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). Perhaps you’ve ...
BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS
For Leaders
Build, inspire, scale, sustain, and lead high-performing teams and resilient organizations and companies.
For Product Managers
Innovate and build impactful products that delight your customers and exceed your business goals.
Leadership Development Training and Coaching
Are you ready to lead your teams and company in this new world that is increasingly volatile with high uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity around the market and stakeholder needs? This new VUCA world presents new challenges that cannot be tackled using traditional approaches to management and leadership. Today’s leaders need to anticipate and respond rapidly to ever-changing environments.
Our leadership development assessment, training. and coaching programs help leaders develop the skills needed to become more strategic, collaborative, innovative, and proactive. Leaders reach levels of agility that match the pace of change in their business environments by building, inspiring, scaling, and sustaining high-performing teams and resilient organizations.
Product Management Training and Coaching
Are you ready to build innovative products that delight your customers, deliver on your business strategy, exceed your business goals, and secure your organization’s future growth and success? In today’s fast-paced world with disruptive technology around every corner, product managers need to constantly discover, test, and validate product ideas while managing desirability risks, viability risks, feasibility risks, and usability risks, to ensure customer satisfaction and business growth.
Our product management training and coaching programs help product owners and managers develop the skills needed to inspire and align teams and stakeholders around a vision, integrate customer research into product discovery and development, test product assumptions and market fit, create compelling value propositions, build a market-driven product strategy and roadmap, manage a product backlog and conflicting priorities, and lead cross-functional teams that deliver quality products.
Agile Engineering Training and Coaching
Are you ready to build and deliver highly reliable and robust quality products that are easy to maintain and update? For many technical teams, product development is still done in a phased approach with development separated from analysis, testing, and deployment. This leads to very long delivery cycles and poor-quality code as teams rush to catch up while struggling with high technical debt. Today’s rapidly changing environment requires a customer-centric cross-functional team that is mutually accountable and capable of delivering valuable quality products early and often.
Our agile engineering training and coaching program helps teams develop the skills required to build products iteratively and incrementally by building quality into the development process and keeping technical debt low. Team members learn how to work together as one team while applying engineering practices like test-driven development, pairing, ensemble programming, collective code ownership, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
Agile Training and Coaching
Are you ready to help teams and organizations deliver valuable, innovative, quality products effectively? Many teams try to do so using Scrum, but few truly succeed. Most simply re-name or re-label their roles and processes, but keep much of their team structure and traditional ways of working the same and never realize the benefits of agility. Few establish cross-functional, self-managing, customer-centric teams that use empiricism and iterative and incremental development to deliver valuable products early and often while regularly responding to changing customer needs.
Our agile training and coaching program helps coaches develop the skills needed to teach, mentor, facilitate, and coach teams and organizations on the agile mindset, principles, practices, and changes required to succeed with an agile adoption and achieve the benefits of agile ways of working.
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Many organizations believe Agile is just about development and focus solely on an iterative or incremental approach to development, ignoring ...
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One of the most common question I get asked in my Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) class is “how do I get ...
I presented on Managing Technical Debt at the AgileDC2018 conference held at the Kellog Conference Center at Gallaudet University in ...
1. Thinking that everything is a user story Many mistakenly believe that if you are Agile or using Scrum, then ...
Use the Definition of Done Canvas as a template to help you and your team create an effective Definition of ...
Agile Engineering practices are essential for succeeding with Scrum and ensuring that teams are capable of delivering a Product Increment ...
Use the High Performing Team Canvas as a template to help you take your teams to higher performance levels. Goals: ...
The Scrum Guide defines Product Backlog Refinement as the act of breaking down and further defining Product Backlog items into ...
It’s February 2021 and we are celebrating 20 years since the writing of the Agile Manifesto. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look ...