Synaptus

Training is great to develop insight into what is possible. Some teams and organizations will benefit additionally from having someone work with them through the process of applying what they have learned. Our coaching engagements provide you with the opportunity to have an experienced coach help your team apply Lean and Agile techniques to your specific situation.

We tailor our coaching solution to your needs. We can come in for one day, one week, or spread out multiple visits over time to support on-going learning. We can work with one team to establish effective approaches, spend time with multiple teams as they learn to work together, or work with executives to expand the benefit of Lean and Agile beyond software development.

Make the case for using Agile and Lean approaches: Agile and lean are hot ideas in the development area. But how can teams pragmatically apply these concepts to their organization? Every situation is different. We can help a team understand how to approach their lean-agile transformation to achieve success in their organization.

Help a team deliver improved results using lean and agile techniques: Getting started with lean and agile at the small team level can be challenging. Not every technique works equally well in every situation. We can work with team to coach them through the steps and learning needed to overcome their impediments (and those hoisted on the team by their organizational context) to grow and improve.

Strategically focus your backlog: Most teams lack a way to highlight business value and risk in a way that ensures they are producing the highest business value early. We have helped teams improve business value delivered by establishing a business value and risk based prioritizing and filtering mechanism.

Help a team implement Kanban: Many teams that are struggling with predictability and quality have had difficulty implementing Scrum or other Agile techniques. Kanban is a very effective change management and continuous improvement approach to bring stability, transparency, quality, and much higher throughput to the team.

Create a reliable release plan: Businesses still want to know when they are going to get what they are paying for so they can make commitments to customers and make effective investment decisions. We can help organizations to scope, prioritize, and estimate so they produce the reliable release plans that businesses need.

Bring a development effort back into control: Many organizations will undertake development initiatives much more complicated and larger than their typical initiatives. Sometimes these exceed the grasp of the organization’s ability to manage it. We can work with the organization to bring those projects back into control – establishing transparency on status, scope and risk that allows the organization to move forward.

Align quality assurance organization’s with agile development teams.: When companies are moving to agile and lean techniques, they are often faced with challenges around aligning their existing Quality Assurance efforts with the new demands of agile and lean development. We work with the organization to figure out what makes the most sense for the business and help design the road-map for a smooth transition and improved quality.

Help a PMO establish effective governance for Agile teams: Traditional PMO methods struggle in the face of agile and lean approaches. We bring our experience to bear to establish governance approaches that protect the interest of the business while ensuring the flow of value through development is optimized.