Agile Consultancy

Improving the way agile teams work together to deliver great products and services.

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Whether you are just about to embark on your Agile journey or already well on your way, we offer a range of consultancy services to suit your needs.

Agile Strategy Consulting

We will help you create the right strategy to transform your organisation to an Agile way of working – and help you implement it.

Agile Fast Start

Our 24 week programme provides a framework for Agile teams to get up to speed quickly and start their Agile journey.

Agile Scaling

We will help you devise a strategy and approach to scale Agile across your organisation, including setting up a Ways of Working hub.

Agile Academy

Agile training, aimed at helping you to develop your internal staff becoming Agile strategy experts and coaches so that you can be self-sufficient on your Agile journey.

Agile Fast Start Programme

The Fast Start Programme enables your team to get up and running quickly, and begin to adopt an Agile mindset. By the end of the programme your team will:

  • Be self-organising.
  • Understand Agile fundamentals and how to apply Agile practices and techniques.
  • Have some clarity on the vision for the product - the “why?”
  • Have an agreed set of measurable outcomes that the team are all focused and aligned on delivering

The Programme includes the following activities:

Quarterly Maturity Assessment & Growth Plan

Measurable Outcomes Definition Workshop

2-Day Agile Foundation Training

Ongoing observations and recommendations

1-on-1 coaching

Team coaching

Agile Scaling

We will help you with your strategy and approach to scale Agile across your organisation. This includes setting up a Ways of Working hub that becomes a central place for knowledge, governance and expert guidance for your Agile teams.

Stage 1 - Pilot Projects
  • Analyse the organisation, identify where to start, and choose a set of pilot projects for your Agile journey.
  • These pilots will uncover common issues and constraints, clearing the path for subsequent projects.
Stage 2 - WoW Hub
  • Build a central Ways of Working (WoW) hub to provide support for both new and existing teams, and ensure consistency and alignment as you scale.
  • The hub will include capability for governance, learning and development, team onboarding, communities, expertise and coaching, comms and awareness, people and finance
Stage 3 - Onboard New Squads
  • Begin to scale by onboarding more teams to Agile ways of working, using the Fast Start programme to get started and build capability quickly.
  • These new teams can take advantage of the resources and support available through the WoW Hub, learning from one another to continuously improve throughout their Agile journey.
Stage 4 - Org/Product Strategy
  • For the Agile journey to scale across the whole organisation, the teams and products need to align with the wider organisational strategy and vision.
  • Measurable outcomes at the team and product level need to inform and contribute to the vision and outcomes that have been set at the very top of the organisation.

Agile Academy

Our goal is to help you build capability and expertise with your staff so that your organisation ultimately becomes self-sufficient, allowing us to step away.

Our Courses

We provide training and coaching to suit all levels, whether you are new to Agile and want to learn the basic fundamentals, or you already have a few years Agile experience under your belt and are looking to progress to becoming an Agile coach.

Our Training Style

We believe that you will get the best learning experience from a training style that is interactive, immersive, thought provoking and above all real and practical, rather than purely theory-based. To this end, we bring the theory to life through interactive games/exercises, real-life examples, and plenty of group discussion and debate.

To date, we have an average attendee score of 9.0/10 across our training programmes. Our courses include:

Our 2-day instructor-led classroom training session is designed for those that are new to Agile or have limited Agile experience, providing you with the basic knowledge and understanding around Agile and Scrum fundamentals.

Day 1: (Agile Foundations)

  • What is Agile?
  • Team Roles & Leadership
  • The Backlog
  • User Stories
  • Priorities & Value
  • WIP, Cycle Time & Throughput
  • Predictability & Planning
  • Communication and Feedback

Day 2: (Scrum)

  • Introduction to Scrum
  • The Scrum Team
  • Scrum Simulation
  • The Sprint
  • Key Events
  • Sprint Reporting & Forecasting

Our 2-day instructor-led classroom training session is designed for those that are new to Agile or have limited Agile experience, providing you with the basic knowledge and understanding around Agile and Kanban fundamentals.

Day 1: (Agile Foundations)

  • What is Agile?
  • Team Roles & Leadership
  • The Backlog
  • User Stories
  • Priorities & Value
  • WIP, Cycle Time & Throughput
  • Predictability & Planning
  • Communication and Feedback

Day 2: (Kanban)

  • Introduction to Kanban
  • Kanban Mechanics
  • Daily Events
  • Feedback
  • Predictability & Planning
  • Kanban Simulation Exercise (GetKanban)

○ As organisations increasingly move towards Agile ways of working, it becomes ever more important that the leaders adopt and champion an Agile mindset to enable their squads to be successful.
○ Our 2-day Agile Leadership course provides leadership and management with the know-how and tools they need to drive and deliver a successful Agile Transformation.

Block 1

  • Agile foundations
  • Introduction to Scrum
  • Introduction to Kanban
  • When to use Scrum vs. Kanban
  • Key success factors for Agile projects
  • How to start your Agile journey – selecting the right pilot projects, building your squad for success, defining measurable outcomes, and getting started by visualising the work and agreeing the operating rhythm of the squad.

Block 2

  • Traditional leadership styles
  • Empowering your squads
  • Fostering an Agile culture
  • Garnering Executive level buy-in
  • Setting and communication the vision and purpose
  • Scaling Agile across your organisation

Our half-day course will provide you with a high level overview of Jira and Confluence to enable you to get started with building your own Jira projects and Confluence pages.

Block 1

  • Kanban Overview – Key principles and practices
  • Jira Introduction
  • Type of Work Items (OOTB + custom)
  • Boards – Kanban and Scrum
  • Work in Progress (WIP) and Swimlanes

Block 2

  • Work visibility and communication
  • Transparency and traceability
  • JQL Basics – Jira Query Language
  • Jira Guidelines – what you should and should not do
  • Confluence introduction
  • Confluence high level overview

Our Ninja coaching programmes allow your staff to develop their skills and expertise quickly. Each staff member will be assigned an experienced coach who they will work with to agree on a curriculum that is completely tailored to their needs, helping them where they need it the most.

Individual Assessment

  • Create a confidential detailed assessment of the Product Owner experienced to date.

Create Personalised Curriculum

  • Create a personal backlog and prioritise what subjects to concentrate on first.

Weekly Coaching

  • Provide weekly 1-2-1 coaching sessions and a coaching hotline.

Regular Feedback

  • Provide personalised fortnightly coaching feedback and retrospectives.

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