Agile Clinic - Remedies for Your Agile Implementation

Imagine this:

Two of our experienced agile coaches arrive at your doorstep and hold a one-day clinic. These coaches work in your best conference room with whiteboards, a projector and a good supply of light snacks and beverages. The day is broken up into intense, facilitated sessions either 30 or 60 minutes long. During these problem-solving sessions we meet with your managers, executives, and staff. We start by determining what you need from the session: the issue or challenge to be addressed. We listen, consult, discover, facilitate, diagnose, and offer solutions. At the end of each session we make sure that you have a concrete step to take to address the challenge.

The Agile Clinic (TM) service applies concentrated expertise, experience and facilitation skills to the challenges and issues of your agile implementation!

The Agile Clinic (TM) is designed to help your organization:

• fine tune its agile practices and become effective and more efficient
• become hyper-effective by overcoming some of your hardest challenges
• determine which agile practices will help you the most
• find existing barriers in the current situation, offer solutions for your specific needs
• examine your teams, your processes and your organization to find opportunities for improvement

Your goal is to improve your teams, your processes, your organization so that you can deliver higher quality software faster at lower cost. The Agile Clinic (TM) is designed to aid your agile implementation by offering solutions customized to your situation and company.

Agile is simple, isn't it? Why would we need help?

Agile methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Lean Software Development are simple to describe. Agile principles are common-sense. Agile practices are well-documented. However, implementation of these methods requires many parts to work as a whole. Think of a successful agile implementation like a healthy human body. If all parts of the human body work together then we have our ultimate goal - vigorous health! In an agile organization, all the parts work together to create hyper-effective, high-performance teams.

Unfortunately, despite the simplicity of agile, it can require deep changes in an organization, in the way teams work, and even changes in individual's habits. These changes can be challenging. Imagine that all the parts of your organization worked well together! With the agile clinic, we help you identify the underlying obstacles preventing people from working effectively together. We apply our experience with agile methods to help align all the contributors in your organization to realize the amazing benefits of truly agile organization.

Our coaches are masters of agile methods

The Agile Clinic (TM) will help you as you implement agile processes. We have many coaches with incredibly diverse work experience. All of our coaches have many years of experience. By having two experienced coaches instead of one you will have two points of view, two different set of ears to listen and diagnose. The creative and dynamic interaction of two experienced coaches truly is better than one.

Our coaches have experience with:

• agile engineering practices
• agile project management
• agile teamwork
• agile tools
• agile management
• agile organizational change
• as well as experience in multiple industries and non-agile environments

We will apply our incredible diversity of experience, expertise and hard-won wisdom to your organization and its unique context. We will help you uncover, discover and create solutions that are best for your circumstances.

Scheduling an Agile Clinic (TM) at your office is the most effective way to inject a dose of expertise into your agile adoption plans. Fill out the form to request more information or to schedule an Agile Clinic (TM) at your location.

Some Details:

We will work hard to find agile coaches who are close to your location. We will provide you with an assessment questionnaire in order to find the right match of coaches to your situation and to ensure that we do not waste time asking basic questions about your situation. We will also provide you with an audio recording of the day as well as our notes and photos of any whiteboard/flipchart diagrams. If you are working with a large organization with more than one agile team, you will want to schedule the Agile Clinic on a regular basis: quarterly, monthly or even weekly. Our customers have been 100% satisfied with this service.

Who would benefit most from The Agile Clinic (TM)?

You would get the most benefit from The Agile Clinic (TM) if:

• your organization has been trying agile practices for several months
• you have made progress with agile methods but are encountering deep challenges
• your teams have achieved basic competence with agile practices and are looking to become hyper-effective

We are here to help! All you have to do is fill out the form on the right. It is quick and easy! Fill out the form right away to inject a dose of expertise into your agile adoption plans.

References

References are available upon request. Please use the information form and include a request for references.

* Excluding one hour lunch break and short rest breaks.
** Individual consultants may require a fee for follow-up support.