OrgAgility
During this 4-day hands-on workshop, we will discuss and fill-in an A3 for the initiative you are responsible for. For each section of the A3, we'll review the relevant Lean tools, look at examples, and then use those tools each afternoon.
This course can be delivered in a two hour, 1/2 day or full day format. It is intended to be taken by top management either in preparation for transitioning their organization to Lean-Agile methods or just to learn more about Lean Software Development. The length of the class depends on the depth required.
This 2-day hands-on training class will focus on providing a deeper exploration into the key ScrumMaster practices and responsibilities. The advanced topics include how to effectively formulate high-performing teams; how to design and facilitate more effective retrospectives; as well as advanced planning, metrics and reporting techniques.
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Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 US
One of the most exciting developments in the last few years is the set of approaches focused on experiment driven product strategy and development. Large organizations are shifting from "can we build it?" to "should we build it?" by leveraging early experimentation to de-risk product initiatives. In this interactive 2-day workshop, we introduce core tools and concepts related to Lean Startup, Business Model Generation and Customer Development to enable an experiment-driven product approach. During this collaborative workshop, you will design a new business and gain hands-on experience through validated learning.
Kanban
This workshop provides the team with direct experience in the key concepts and practices of iteration planning, including selecting product backlog for an iteration, task breakdowns, task estimating and task planning.
Continuous Improvement
Managers and Executives
Instructors are senior-level consultants in organizational agility transformation, with change management experience, and will work with you to develop a tailored approach to address your specific goals and constraints.
Agile QA
This 2-day training is the essential starting point for preparing your teams for an agile transition. This class provides the core training needed to establish a shared base of agile knowledge and a common understanding of the values, principles, and practices of agile development. While based on the proven practices of Scrum and Extreme Programming, this course provides a thorough grounding in lean and agile practices from a wide range of methods.
Transform your business -- operations, product and development, working together as one integrated agile team -- and drive towards purpose via continuous innovation, discovery, delivery, learning and improvement.
This workshop provides the agile team with direct experience in the key concepts and practices of release planning, including estimating level of effort and capacity, prioritizing, identifying dependencies, mapping release plans and managing releases.
Story Mapping
We have hands-on expertise in all the main Lean-Agile methods, including Lean, SAFe®, Kanban, and Scrum. Whether you are a team member, a Product Owner/Product Manager, or a leader, we have your training needs covered.
Story Writing
Estimation
Lean / Continuous IMprovement
We provide tailored training and workshop facilitation. Our highly interactive classes range from 1/2 day (for a specific topic) to 3 days.
This 2-day hands-on training class is for experienced project managers transitioning to leading Agile and Scrum projects. Participants will learn the key practices and tools needed to successfully lead an Agile project from planning through execution and delivery.
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End Of Iteration Workshop
Start your agile transition by scheduling a free consultation. An OrgAgility coach will work with you to understand your needs, assess the project or organization, develop an initial plan, and share the proposal for your agile transition with you.
During this 1-day course, senior management will develop a clear vision of the business outcomes they expect to achieve by becoming more agile. This will include a deep dive into the existing processes, structures, rules and beliefs that underlie the existing organization, and the evaluation of those structures against their goal for agility. This insight will lead to organization specific discussions to develop plans and structures to support the transition.
Leading SAFe 4.0 with SA Certification
This activity provides the agile team with direct experience in the key concepts and practices of iteration reviews, iteration retrospectives and how to incorporate the feedback gained into their ongoing planning and process improvement efforts.
This 4-hour class addresses the approach and practices for integrating Quality Assurance into agile processes. This class covers the role of quality assurance and testing personnel in agile processes, agile quality assurance practices, acceptance testing techniques and tool support for agile testing.
All courses can be taught at your facilities, anywhere in the world. Contact us with your needs and we'll craft a session that provides you just what you need.
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Foundational Agile
Kanban is a lean approach to product development. Participants in this 1 1/2-day class will learn the principles of Kanban, the key practices of visualizing workflows and limiting work in progress to enable rapid predictable delivery. The class provides a hands-on, experiential exploration of the Kanban mechanics and practices.
Agile for Managers
Program Level Courses
Deep Dives -- Product Owner
This 2-day advanced workshop will take your team through a practical, and intensive hands-on journey of applying Agile, Lean and Kanban to your Portfolio Planning and Management. The workshop will focus on new and innovative methods for planning, prioritizing, sizing and managing your portfolio of initiatives – leaving you with methods you can begin to apply immediately.
These short classes are a deep-dive into specific topics. Where possible, these classes are followed immediately by a hands-on session for the team. For example, in the first half we talk about estimation; in the second, we help the team estimate their work.
Phone: +1 (949) 415-6611
E-mail: alex@orgagility.com
Iteration/Sprint Planning
PMPO Workshop
Release Planning
Lean-Agile for Executives and Senior Managers
Basics
Agile/Lean Portfolio Management
TRaining & Workshops
Enterprise Lean Startup
Lean-Agile Software Development for Executives and Management
The Product Manager / Product Owner Workshop combines the role of the business facing product manager with the team facing Product Owner. The workshop covers customer discovery, business model canvas creation, understanding users, understanding hypothesis and experimentation, portfolio and release management, managing demand with capacity to achieve faster realization of business value, and business planning and backlog management to drive development teams in producing incremental value.
This 1-day Agile training class orients participants in the key Agile values, principles, roles and processes. The class provides a high-level overview designed as an introduction to Agile. Participants are exposed to the Agile terminology and concepts and are provided with a primer of the key Agile tools and practices.
This two-day course covers the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale. You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams.
Advanced ScrumMaster
A 4-hour deep-dive into the mechanics of user stories, how to write good stories, split epics into smaller stories, and clarify value provided by the stories.
Deep Dives -- Team
Introduction to Agile
Understand how to use Lean principles and Lean tools in non-software development efforts.
These are interactive workshops tailored to and focused on your unique needs.
A list of Agile product backlog items becomes hard to manage and visualize when dealing with a large number of stories. We'll discuss and experiment with ways to make sense of the backlog and work through a couple of hands-on exercises to create story maps.
These are interactive workshops tailored to and focused on your unique needs.
Effective estimation of the backlog is a fundamental capability of Agile teams. Consistently accurate estimation drives not only Agile backlog prioritization but also sprint planning and release planning. This in-depth class focuses on practical and pragmatic techniques to improve team estimation practices.