Our Services

Understanding Where You Are

Have a conversation. We’d be happy to take an hour to discuss some of your current challenges with Agile or what you want to accomplish by adopting Agile at your company. This is an opportunity for you to talk about your challenges and to get some advice you can implement right away. (1 hour)
Value Stream Mapping Exercise looks at your delivery process from end to end. This Lean technique is used to highlight problems and inefficiencies in your existing process so that you better understand your current state. This is undertaken by cross-functional team members – everyone involved in delivering happy customers. (3 hours)
Readiness Assessment helps you understand the implications and benefits of a transition to Agile at your company. We interview team members, managers and related departments to determine what it will take to adopt Agile or improve Agile at your organization. At the end you will have an understanding of what it will take to adopt Agile at your organization and what challenges to expect. This can be done as a separate engagement or as part of on-site coaching work if you just want to get started right away. (2 to 5 days)
Bottleneck Game. This is a quick simulation to help your team understand the Theory of Constraints and how bottlenecks prevent shippable software. This information can be applied to your situation in a follow-on workshop. It is a quick and effective way to understand where work gets queued in your environment and what you can do about it. (2-4 hours)
Not sure where to start? Check out Getting Started with Agile to see alternatives and options.

Training

Training is typically a combination of presentations, exercises and simulations to achieve a business objective.

Agile Kick Start gives a team the minimum they need to get started on Agile by covering core concepts followed by an Agile project simulation. See Agile Kick Start (1 day)
Agile Training provides a deeper and broader coverage of Agile concepts that Kick Start. Material covers Scrum, eXtreme Programming and other practices such as Agile estimation and planning. Recommended. Similar to Scrum Certification Training (2 days)
User Stories Workshop allows participant to learn about user stories and get hands on experience using them. (1/2 day)
Agile Estimation & Planning Workshop provides understanding and practice with Agile estimation techniques including Planning Poker. (1/2 day)
Advanced simulations are designed to help Agile teams get to that next level of competence and capability. See Agile Games Day. (up to 1 day)

Coaching

We offer full-time and part-time onsite coaching in the GTA. For a better idea of what this means and how it can benefit you please see Get Started!

If you are already using Agile and want to get better

Agile Health Check looks for ways to improve or tune-up an existing Agile process. This is an open format from 1 hour to 1 day. It involves examining project artifacts, environment setup and having team discussion to contrast local practices with Agile standards and other Agile companies.
Online assessment. Think your Agile project is going well? Use this free on-line survey to check how you are doing.
Advanced simulations are designed to help Agile teams get to that next level of competence and capability. See Agile Games Day. (up to 1 day)