Relevant topics:

• Identify value

• Prioritize outcomes

• Understand correlations between outcomes

• Create a strategy map with cause-effect relationships

• Define what success looks like

Relevant topics:

• Team structures and topologies

• Team composition

• Roles and responsibilities

• Distributed leadership

• Goal: learn how to use OKRs for directing and elaborating unit or team plans

• Group size: 8 max. (i.e. split team if necessary)

• Typical duration: 90-120 mins

• Format: instruction + activity

• Takeaway: completed OKR for a real case

• Goal: discover current and ideal traits for practicing servant and situational leadership

• Group size: 5 max. (i.e. split team if necessary)

• Typical duration: 60 min

• Format: instruction + activity

• Takeaways: understanding of servant leadership, prioritized traits

Focused coaching sessions for Leadership Teams.

Themes:
· Agile values and principles
· Servant and situational leadership
· Goal-setting with OKRs
· Inspiring people with storytelling
· People-first leadership
· Agile roles and responsibilities
· Change management
· Building resilience

• Goal: learn how to set up a new Agile team

• Group size: 5 max. (i.e. split team if necessary)

• Typical duration: 60-90 min

• Format: instruction + activity

• Takeaway: plan and Miro template for performing Agile Teaming events

• Goal: identify the most important and relevant (Agile) values and principles for the team

• Typical duration: 60 mins

• Format: Miro board

• Takeaway: selected values and principles

Relevant topics:

• Which type of Value Stream should you map?

• Create a VSM

• Identify bottlenecks or other improvement opportunities

• Make the link with process mapping

Relevant topics:

• Set a purpose for our processing mapping

• Identify which processes we want to map (individual, end-to-end, …)

• Agree on process mapping levels (L1..L4)

• Create process maps with physical sticky notes or on a Miro board

Relevant topics:

• Decide on work item types (epics, stories, …)

• Decide which backlogs you need incl. ownerships

• Decide how to prioritize backlog items

• Size backlog items

• Shallow and deep backlog grooming

Relevant topics:

• Should we groom the backlog? What items, and when?

• When to use shallow vs deep grooming

• Who to invite to grooming sessions

• Elaborate concrete cases of stories incl. techniques to use

• How do we split our big stories (or epics) into smaller stories - take concrete cases

• Context: planning levels & humans

• What is relative estimating?

• Useful estimation methods to know

• How to deal with uncertainty?

• Takeaways & questions

Goal: practice how you run a real-life Sprint planning meeting for your team

Relevant topics:

• Set sprint planning meeting agenda + format

• Set sprint goal (who, how)

• Identify and visualize capacity

• Estimate a story (or task)

• Load balance the plan to address risks

Goal: run a smooth and efficient retrospective session

Relevant topics:

• Organize the session at the best time

• Invite the right persons

• Set the agenda to divide the time into the right activities

• Prepare the retrospective board

• Understand how to engage everyone and make it an engaging session

• Facilitate the session

• How to deal with action follow-up

Relevant topics:

• Agile quality attributes: identify how quality contributes to value

• Agile testing quadrants: divide test types and ownerships

• Testing in cross-functional Agile teams: collaborate with developers and analysts

• Agile test planning

• Shift-left testing: fit testing in Scrum sprints

Relevant topics:

• Understand Lean waste categories

• Use metrics and tools for measurement and analytics

• Take a systematic approach to identify, prioritize, and remove waste