Classes
I offer a variety of classes aimed at helping you develop and maintain a high-performance team. Classes include:
High-performance Teams
Psychological safety, team emotional intelligence, and culture to create and maintain a high-performance team
- Science and research on high-performance teams
- Positive bias: The foundation of high-performance teams
- Freedom: Autonomy creates psychological safety.
- Self-awareness: Individual emotional intelligence skills and self-aware individuals are the building block of high-performance teams
- Connection: Team emotional intelligence skills for a connected, cohesive, high-performance team
- Productivity: Now that the team is in a state of shared vision, get to work efficiently and productively!
- Error handling: Safe techniques for staying on track
- Activities: Practical experiential activities that you can use with your team to get into a state of high-performance
Experience Agile and Scrum
The foundations of Agile and Scrum in two days
Day 1
- Effective team norms: how to make fast and unanimous group decisions for efficient team interactions
- Activity: Decider Protocol
- Agile & the Agile Manifesto: what is Agile and where did it come from?
- Activity: Presto Manifesto
- Inspect and adapt: why empirical processes like Scrum work better for complicated and complex problems than defined processes
- Activity: Ball Point Game
- Scrum: introduction and deep dive
- Activity: Build Your Own Scrum
- Team formation and product inception: teams, company vision, product vision, stakeholders, and user personas
- Activity: Vision and stakeholder mini-workshop
- Agile product requirements: Product backlog development–great user stories and more
- Activities: Storytelling and backlog development mini-workshop
Day 2
- Estimating: For effective team alignment
- Activity: Animal estimating
- Agile forecasting and project management: how to plan and replan your project
- Sprint Planning: Planning a successful increment of work
- Activity: Experience Agile Project
- Retrospectives: Optimizing the team
- Activity: Experience Agile Project
- Agile at Large Scale: How to scale beyond one Agile team (time permitting)
- Experience Agile Project: Use Scrum to design, implement, and deliver a real product together
- Activity: Experience Agile Project
Agile Product Owner Skills
The foundational product owner skills your team needs to build the right product
The usual prerequisite is Experience Agile and Scrum. Topics are tailored to your team’s needs.
- Product inception: Company vision, product vision, stakeholders, and user personas
- Activity: Vision and stakeholder mini-workshop
- Agile requirements: Product backlog development–great user stories and more
- Activities: Storytelling and backlog development mini-workshop
- User story mapping: An effective tool for empathizing with stakeholders and elaborating their needs as a product backlog
- Activity: User story mapping mini-workshop
- Whole-team long-range forecasting: How to build a long-range product delivery forecast with full team alignment
- Activity: Whole-team long-range forecasting mini-workshop
- Advanced topics, time permitting
- Agile forecasting and project management
- Sprint Planning
- Agile at Large Scale
