Agile Coaching

Unlocking the power of Agile is more than a question of implementation, requiring instead a complete cultural shift both within your team and the wider organisation.

As practitioners of Agile themselves, our coaching team understands this reality and therefore design their sessions to provide you and your team with the knowledge and skills needed not just to do Agile, but to be Agile - responsive, flexible and nimble yet constantly focused on the goal in hand.

You'll leave with an understanding of:

• The core principles and practices associated with the Agile framework
• What sets Agile apart from traditional methods
• Roles and responsibilities in an Agile team
• The importance of prioritisation, and methods to achieve this
• Methods for Agile planning, scoping and estimation
• The delivery structure
• The critical importance of iteration, collaboration and feedback - and how these principles help deliver better projects and products
• How to go forward and address your problems in your specific environment
• You teams moral will improve as they become empowered to make change.
• Teams will grow and adapt, and importantly deliver value to your customers.
• We will work with you to develop a coaching strategy and approach.
• We have experience of both large corporate business, and working in government organisations following Government Digital Service (GDS) principles.

While Agile has been popularised in software development, the principles are relevant and effective across a whole range of industries and departments. Our courses include:

• Introduction to Agile
• Introductory requirements gathering
• User stories and acceptance criteria
• User story mapping
• How to run retrospectives
• Introduction to Kanban
• Sprint reviews and user acceptance testing
• Agile business analysis

We also offer bespoke, more consultative coaching services, where we’ll work with you to define a programme of activity based on your specific context and pain points - covering subjects such as:

• Development in Scrum
• What happens in a sprint
• Agile reporting
• Remote working and Agile