Many companies have made the shift, and the investment, in Agile methods for their software development projects. They’ve done it because it makes good business sense. It makes sense if what you wish for is business value delivered earlier, satisfied customers, and happy employees. Do more than make a wish. Go Agile.

Imagine Agile

Adopting Agile may be easier than you imagine it will be:

• Imagine that your software development efforts met the customers’ needs every time.
• Imagine that you realize true business value earlier in your development cycle.
• Imagine that your development teams could shift direction, smoothly, with changing marketplaces, emerging technologies, or evolving requirements.
• Imagine that you could know early when you’ve started down the wrong path, and stop or redirect development, minimizing your investment in failed products.
• Imagine your organization fit the Agile Alliance goal of productive, humane and sustainable workplaces. Great products and happy employees, over the long term.

All these visions become possible with Agile methods, based in the principles of the Agile Manifesto.

Too good to be true? Yes, there’s a catch.

Agile Methods Require Agile Mindsets and Behaviors

It turns out that wishing is not an effective or reliable management strategy. No one creates an Agile organization only by imagining it. There’s work to do. Your need to know what you want to accomplish with a shift to Agile and what value you will gain from it. You also need a carefully crafted plan for communicating the change and attention to the implementation details as it rolls out.

We Can Help

We can help. Together, we’ll work from our versatile, tested Agile framework to develop a blueprint for installing Agile practices—with your development teams, management groups, and other stakeholders. We’ll chose the right practices from Scrum, Lean, and Extreme Programming to custom-fit your purpose, then consult and give hands on support as you “make it so!”

Agile and Teams

Agile methods rely on high-performing teams and leaders who understand teams. Read more here.

Agile Beyond Software

And, remember, Agile methods aren’t just for software development anymore. We’ll help you think about which practices apply to your non-software projects and work flow.

Tune and Adapt

Your leaders, teams and work groups experience what goes right and what goes wrong, what works and what doesn’t, during every day, on every project. If your group is like most, that learning evaporates as attention shifts to the next pressing problem or urgent project milestone.

We introduce ways to capture, manage, and disseminate technical knowledge and process wisdom that will continually improve current conditions and future work.

There’s Always Room for Improvement

Work processes built around rapid feedback loops, saturated communication, and inventive coaching fuel improvement and innovation. We work with you to define and design adaptive continuous improvement processes that respond to your changing world. You’ll find opportunities for improvement in your work process flow, in your staff meetings, in your relationships with customers, in your product quality, and more.

Tune and adapt your work by installing continuous improvement methods, practices, and techniques. We’ll show you how.

Retrospectives Improve Everything

Retrospectives improve any project or process–building on a team’s immediate past experience of success and failure. And Diana wrote the book on them.

Smart teams and organizations hold Retrospectives iteratively, throughout the work cycle and at important milestones. Teams can’t truly call themselves Agile if they don’t include Retrospectives among their regular work practices.

In Retrospectives, teams systematically evaluate their own performance, explore their lessons learned, expand their capacity and capability, and forge ways to continuously improve their work and deliverables.

We Lead or You Lead

We work with your organization to design and lead comprehensive retrospective sessions at major project milestones or project end. Through workshops and mentoring, we also support you in developing your internal capacity for leading retrospectives.

For more information on how to lead your own retrospectives, watch this video.

Then contact us to transform your team leaders, project managers, coaches, scrum masters and team members into effective Retrospective Leaders.