This workshop is unique. There is hardly a thing in the workshop that Jeff Sutherland or others do not recommend. For Enterprise that wants to launch their first agile project, this workshop invite you to realize a serial of workshops and actions for coordinating your product. During workshop, you will focus on:

Defining the success and satisfaction conditions

Elaborating the Vision

Collaborating with Stakeholders and realizing the first consensus

Defining the Business Value

Prioritizing requirements in respect of the Strategy

Obtaining a serial of advices about your next steps

Purpose: We want you to have significantly better results from Lean, Agile and Scrum, in terms of more fun, more Velocity (productivity) and more Business Value. We use many ideas to help you make this significant paradigm shift.

In this case, after giving some introductory ideas, we have each table (usually four to five people) work as a Team on the real work of the Product Owner (one person at the table chosen to be PO). That person acts as Product Owner for the day, and the Team builds out the Agile Release Plan for the next three months of that work. So, we are using the agile ideas on real work, and each table is different.

Ravneet Kaur will lead this course. Ravneet is an experienced Agile Coach and trainer.

This workshop covers Product Delivery Planning, Delivery Plan Refactoring (a.k.a. Product Backlog grooming or Product Backlog refinement) and the shift from initial planning into starting the first Sprint.

Participants Will Learn:

To plan, initiate and lead a Scrum project

To establish a shared vision for the entire team

To generate an Delivery Plan utilizing user stories and story point estimation

To identify and address Business Value

To estimate effort using story points

To do cost-benefit analysis at the story level

To consider Risks, Dependencies, Learning, MMFS and other factors to adjust the delivery plan

To draw the line (determine which features will be in the release)

To estimate the Team’s Velocity

To create the communication plan

To identify, engage and involve Business Stakeholders in your project

How to take most existing teams to the next level

Practical suggestions purchased expensively from the school of hard knocks

To lead your Scrum Team through Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Retrospective sessions

In this way, we help you move from the initial plan, into doing the first Sprint, and the first Sprint includes Delivery Plan Refactoring every Sprint.

Since Ravneet has a Software R&D and Business Development background, we believe this makes the workshop more effective for the Product Owners and more directed toward the key business issues. We want you to have a full business success, not a mere technical success.

Additional Information:

The workshop will run from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Breaks and Lunch will be provided.

Following successful completion of the workshop, the participant may earn 7 PDUs and 7 SEUs.

Agenda

Overview of Product Delivery Planning

Discussion of Delivery Plan Refactoring

Why Planning as a Team is better

Doing Delivery Planning

Vision

Product Backlog

Business Value

Effort

Risks, Dependencies, Learning, MMFS, other

Drawing the line (scope and date)

Team Velocity

Budget (briefly)

Communications ‘plan’

Fix It Plan

Other

Rolling into the first Sprint

Discussion of Delivery Plan Refactoring

Who Should Attend:

This workshop has been taken by everyone connected to the Agile Team. The future Scrum Master, Product Owner, team members, managers and other stakeholders should attend. The CEO, COO and CFO have attended and all were convinced it benefited the company. We recommend that a whole Team(s) (and related stakeholders) do the workshop at one time. This is very valuable.