Doing Agile well can be challenging. That is why SolutionsIQ offers consulting services—to ensure your team maximizes the benefits of Agile.
SolutionsIQ consultants draw on first-hand experience as senior development leads and IT project managers. Our Coaching Services are designed to help teams and individuals apply Agile concepts and practices on the job. Our Training Services help Agile teams plan and achieve specific deliverables, such as creating a new product backlog or integrated release plan. Enterprise Agile Adoption is a comprehensive program for organizations ready to extend the benefits of Agile beyond the team level.
Coaching
Team Services
Enterprise Agile Adoption
Coaching
SolutionsIQ offers coaching in Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean. Our hands-on coaching services will provide your team with needed support and guidance to develop proficiency in their Agile practices from beginning to completion. Our Agile Coaches provide team facilitation, real-time feedback, professional mentoring, and management consulting.
Our experienced coaches will work side-by-side with your team, mentoring and guiding them in the implementation of Agile practices. Coaching services can be customized to address a specific need or problem your team is facing. Coaching is performed on-site and can be scheduled to coincide with key dates for your project team. Coaching engagements may be as short as a few days, or could be part of a larger engagement such as an enterprise rollout.
Agile Team Services
People learn best by doing. SolutionsIQ Agile Team Services provides teams that are adopting Agile practices with structured coaching in a way that maximizes learning and skill development. We do this by combining workshop-based training with hands-on effort on real project artifacts.
What We Offer
A customized program of Agile and technical workshops- Help to start well, build momentum, and avoid pitfalls along the way
- Hands-on coaching and mentoring to improve individual and team skills
- Support to existing teams in growing their potential
- Coaching and immediate feedback
- Agile practices: Scrum, Lean and Extreme Programming (XP)
Agile introduces teams to a new mindset, requiring new activities and practices. SolutionsIQ Agile Team Services provides intensive, multi-day workshops that enable teams to accomplish objectives, build best practices from the beginning, and maximize the potential of Agile.
SolutionsIQ Agile Coaches will work closely with your project teams and their leadership, providing team facilitation, real-time feedback, professional mentoring, and management consulting. Our experienced practitioners will provide your teams with the support and expertise they need to succeed with Agile practices.
Our Workshops
Starting Well as an Agile Team – Establish a strong foundation for your new teams. Our Agile Coaches use their real-world experience to help your project teams get set up with effective team collaboration tools and practices.
Effective Requirements for Agile Teams: User Story Workshop – Your team will develop skills in writing effective user stories using your actual product backlog. Learn to avoid common pitfalls and use Agile planning practices effectively.
Specified, Prioritized and Estimated: Developing a Product Backlog – Build a prioritized, estimated, and well understood product backlog in alignment with your project vision. Develop good backlog grooming practices while improving your product backlog.
Scaling and Multi-team Release Planning – Need to plan beyond a single iteration? Agile release planning is an advance practice where top-down vision is aligned with bottom-up capability. This workshop reveals appropriate team scaling structure and realistic release expectations.
Inspect and Adapt: Improving Through Retrospectives – Continuous improvement is at the heart of Agile. Learn to use Sprint and Release Retrospectives to reveal lessons learned and convert them to solutions.
Agile Software Quality - Optimize delivery capabilities and product quality through practical application of automated acceptance testing, evolutionary design, collective code ownership, and continuous integration.
Test-Driven Development – Deliver higher quality software through the use of Test-Driven Development (TDD) tools and techniques. Developers will learn and implement TDD best practices on their own software projects.
Executive Forum on Agile – Agile takes great leadership. Guide your organization in working effectively with Agile and Scrum. Both technical and non-technical executives will gain a better understanding of how Agile can benefit the entire company. Use Agile methods to make your company more accountable, market responsive, and productive.
The SolutionsIQ Advantage
Adopting Agile practices involves challenging changes. SolutionsIQ's practitioners draw upon our real world experience at delivering projects to enable your on the job learning.
The SolutionsIQ approach is client-specific and adaptable. Each engagement is unique, as are our customers. We tailor our Agile Team Services program to meet the unique needs of your organization.
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