Lean Agile Training Webinars

This webinar is an introduction to our Unique Agile Release Planning workshop.

We are the only ones who provide this workshop.

It is also an opportunity to answer your questions.

Almost every week we give an 8-hour Agile Release Planning Workshop. People who take the workshop say: “It should be required,“ “it’s essential” and “that’s where it all came together for me.” Students are very happy.

The basic idea is to organize people into tables (or Zoom break-out rooms) and have each table work on a project that is real for at least one person at that table—and that person acts as the Product Owner.

It is very real and practical.

We discuss planning concepts and the planning for that day.

We pick the work for each table (break-out).

We go through the proposed steps, in a very practical way; at the end of which they have a decent first-pass plan.

We discuss what happens after this day and what we have learned.

There are other variations we can do. The workshop itself is typically 1 day.

Discussion Leader

This webinar is a 1-hour dive into our Real-World Scrum workshop (1 day).

This dive will give you a much richer idea of the content of the in-person workshop.

The Scrum courses (eg, our CSM course) offer some time on applying theory to practice. The RWS workshop enables you to get into these issues much more. Special situations. Things you can't do. All the mess of real life. And then, the workshop is to figure out how to do the best you can, and start improving.

"If you don't change things, nothing's going to change." (Joe Little)
So, we do insist that you change things some. But almost no one can get everything to change by Day 0. So, we offer practical suggestions for the real-world.

You are probably in one of two situations:

• You are starting a new Team and want to start well (as well as you can)
• You have a Team that needs improvement, and you're looking for ways to improve

The workshop takes you through a series of exercises, to figure out what to do. We explain how to adjust to problems or issues.

The agenda of this 1-hour Dive will be added soon.

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In this “Intro” Webinar, we get into the format and content of our Advanced CSM Course (A-CSM).

We also discuss an option you may add - our Agile Release Planning workshop.

We will also answer your questions.

The A-CSM Course spans 16 hours of “classroom” time spread over 2 or 3 days, usually. Adding the ARP workshop means another 8 hours.

**Discussion Leader**

The way we look at it, we are always using some Waterfall ideas to get our work done. At least some.

Let's deal with one situation: when we are working in contract mode. Meaning: we have a contract (scope-date-budget) or there is an implied contract.

Please join us! Let's discuss.

Here are a few subtopics we hope to discuss.

• It may be more waterfallish than we want.
• Maybe more up-front work than agile usually does.
• A lot is attitude: ours and theirs.
• A contract means: "I don't trust you."
• Build trust
• Plan initially
• But get them to understand that change happens, and you must re-plan.
• They (Cust + Bus side) get to engage on the trade-offs
• By getting better (and for other reasons), the trade-offs may lead to MORE success
• 80-20
• Use BVPs. Learn!
• Pull in the Business Side & Customers

We think these ideas can help.

We will have an hour. Let’s help each other as much as we can in the time box.

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