Agile

The top 4 challenges to agile adoption/scaling are reported [1] as

• Organisational culture at odds with agile values (52%)
• General organizational resistance to change (48%)
• Inadequate management support and sponsorship (44%)
• Lack of skills/experience with agile methods (40%)

At InspireQS we have the know-how from many years of experience to help you overcome these challenges in your context. Our approach is to support effective change by focusing not just on the mechanics of Scrum and Kanban but on your people, culture and values such as commitment, trust and collaboration. Our team coaching helps key stakeholders such as your business representatives, developers, and testers collaborate to achieve greater levels of agility. Our executive coaching supports your management in providing leadership in behavioural change and adoption of agile values. This combined with practical team support for the fundamentals of Scrum and Kanban enhances value delivery.

[1] 2019 State of Agile Survey – VersionOne

Agile Training

Agile Coaching/Mentoring

Mentoring is a highly flexible, customised and targeted approach to rapidly improve your agile practices

Mentoring activities can include:

• Short team workshops to identify challenges
• Remote engagement in backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Feedback on artifacts such as user stories, tests, etc.
• Knowledge transfer and coaching sessions: individual or team-based

Mentoring support can range from a single one-hour session to an on-going engagement over several weeks.It is completely targeted on your team’s key challenges and tailored to your unique upskilling needs.

Agile Focus areas

Agile and DevOps

Rapid delivery of business value with quality

Effective Scrum implementation

• Roles – Product Owner, ScrumMaster & Development Team
• Events/ceremonies – sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective
• Artifacts – product backlog, sprint backlog, definition of done, burndowns
• Common pitfalls/challenges and their solutions

Effective User Stories

• Product Backlog Prioritisation approaches
• Estimating/forecasting in agile

Lean & Kanban

• Achieving a flow-based pull system
• Defining and Visualising the workflow
• Actively managing Work in Progress
• Managing and improving flow
• • • Lean forecasting
    • Theory of Constraints, A3 problem solving
    • Understanding flow systems and queues – Work In Progress, Lead/Cycle time, Throughput: Little’s Law
    • Common pitfalls/challenges and their solutions

Scrum/Kanban hybrids

• Scrumban, Kanban for Scrum teams from scrum.org

Agile mindset, culture, values, behaviours

Whole team collaboration in agile

Agile at Scale

Shift left, shift right, continuous testing in CI/CD

Agile metrics

Addressing technical debt

Technical agile practices

• Code reviews, static analysis, TDD, code coverage, pair programming, etc.
• Behaviour-driven development, Acceptance Test Driven Development