Consulting Focus
I assist organizations transition to Agile development styles. Based on my work with over 50 organizations of various sizes and across industry sectors, I have consistently observed that:
- Organizations that seek professional guidance, have more success than those that try to make the transition alone and,
- Organizations that invest in training, mentoring, and coaching, have more success than those that only invest in training.
With this knowledge, I tailor my consulting practice to include the following offerings:
– Agile Readiness Assessment
To identify the areas of greatest opportunity and tailor the training to bridge those gaps
– Agile Workshops and Seminars
To train larger audiences in a common set of values, principles, and specific practices
– Agile Mentoring
To collaborate with learning Agilists and help them learn while doing
– Agile Coaching
To provide guidance and direction by addressing the perils and pitfalls that new agile adopters encounter
– Facilitated Visioning/Chartering/Planning
To model effective techniques and practices by working with teams on actual projects or programs.
Workshops
I routinely offer these workshops and happily tailor them to meet the needs of your organization, or customize a workshop on a topic that better fits your organization’s needs.
– Agile Project Management
– Agile Business Intelligence
– Agile Testing and Automation
– Agile Modeling
– Agile Estimating and Planning
– Innovation Games
Mentoring
Agile engineers and project managers often benefit from mentoring in these areas:
– Test driven development and story/test driven development
– Architectural design patterns
– Backlog grooming and management
– Modeling and design
– Estimating
– Build Automation and Continuous Integration