To succeed as an organization, you must be agile when needed. It is not about following Agile practices; it is about being Agile. Being Agile requires a mindset of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Agile is not just doing Scrum. Scrum is just a tool, a good tool that can help you deliver value to your customers. Agile is a mindset where you realize that the organization should provide value to the customers. It is a mindset where 100% transparency is the norm, realizing that full transparency will give you maximum possibilities for inspecting and adapting.
I don’t believe in blindly implementing Scrum or any other framework. There should be a clear reason you would like to become Agile; doing Agile because someone else is doing Agile is not a good reason. Sometimes, not using Agile is a perfect approach.
To become Agile, you need to understand what it means. You need to be involved in becoming Agile and in the driver’s seat. You should be the owner of the journey, not the (external) coach.
Agile Strides can help your organization to become (more) Agile with Agile Coaching.
- Coaching teams on improving self-organization and using Agile frameworks and patterns.
- Coaching Product Owners working in an Agile environment and how to manage the Product Backlog.
- Coaching Scrum Masters, how to grow as Scrum Master to the next level, and coaching teams.
- Coaching of organizations on how to implement Agile processes.
Agile Coach Offers
We have many building blocks to help your organization become (more) Agile.
- Agile Coaching
- Agile & Scrum Training
- Large Scale Scrum
- Retrospective Workshop
- Lego Scrum Workshop
- Lean Change Management
Agile & Scrum Training
If you want to become Agile and use Scrum, you must understand Agile and Scrum. Agile Strides provides workshops where people can learn about Agile and Scrum interactively.
- Agile Foundation workshop, why Agile, benefits of Agile, different Agile frameworks, etc.
- Scrum Workshop: What is Scrum? What are the different roles, artifacts, meetings, pitfalls, etc?
- Learn more about the Agil/Scrum Master Training
Large Scale Scrum
I was involved in one of the first large Scrum implementations in the Netherlands. In 2006, we were already working with six Scrum teams, one backlog, and distributed teams, and we were adding value for our customers. I am a certified LeSS practitioner and experienced in SAFe.
- Coaching teams on how to work together on one project
- Coaching of (Chief) Product Owner, one backlog and multiple teams
Retrospective Workshop
Agile is all about Inspecting and Adapting—the backbone of Agile. I have been conducting retrospective workshops since 2004. Because of my experience, I have many tools to make a retrospective a fun and valuable experience. It is possible to ask me to facilitate your project retrospective, have an independent facilitator guide the discussions, and discover improvements.
Additionally, I share my activities and experience in workshops on organizing great retrospectives.
- Hire me to facilitate your project retrospective
- How to organize great retrospective workshops
- Learn more about how to spice up your retros
Lego Scrum Workshop
Talking about Scrum can be fun, but the best way to experience Scrum is by actually doing it. By using Lego, everyone can experience what Scrum is about. It is a fun and interactive way of learning about Scrum, where several common problems are simulated.
Lean Change Management
Being Agile is all about continuous change. You want to improve your process continuously. Change is hard and difficult.
- (Team) coaching on change management practices