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Agile Team Planning
Tune-Up
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Planning iterations and committing to Sprint goals and backlogs challenges many teams. With an Agile Planning Tune-Up, SolutionsIQ expert coaches engage with teams to enhance performance, delivery and ROI. The Agile Planning Tune-Up typically has three distinct aspects:
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Prepare teams for Sprint planning
Using effective estimating techniques and years of experience preparing for Agile planning sessions, SolutionsIQ consultants help set the context for a successful Sprint Planning session.
- Facilitate effective Sprint Planning session
Equipped with a Product Backlog that is "Ready," SolutionsIQ coaches help organize, coordinate and accomplish agreed-upon goals. Effective Sprint Planning sessions require efficiency and collaboration to improve the accuracy and speed of the planning process.
- Inspect results of planning process through a Sprint Review
Regular Sprint Reviews function as an inspect and adapt loop for the customer and set the stage for ongoing refinement by the team for their future iterations.
Agile Team Participants Will Learn:
- The importance of estimating size and deriving duration
- The differences between story points and ideal time
- The advantages of an abstract measure of size
- Techniques for estimating
- When and how to re-estimate
- How and when to perform release and iteration planning
- Tips for communicating about estimates and plans
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Agenda for Agile Planning Tune-Up:
- The Purpose of Planning
- Estimating in Story Points
- Estimating in Ideal Time
- Techniques for Estimating
- Re-estimating
- Tracking Progress
- Sprint Planning
- Release Planning
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The SolutionsIQ Difference:
SolutionsIQ Agile consultants are not just trainers; they are leading practitioners and thought leaders in the field. Their real-life knowledge and skills transfer provides unparalleled perspective and proven techniques. Agile Planning Tune-Ups are customized to meet specific client needs and enterprise demands.
Key Benefits
- Implement best practices
- Enhance performance
- Cut down on response time
- Ensure clarity and maintainability
- Increase collaborative capabilities
- Reduce risk
- Ensure rapid turn-around of new functionality
- Improve ROI
- Accelerate speed to market
- Coordinate planning and scheduling
- Leverage proven experience
- Gain unique insights
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