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All our training and consulting is conducted at your site so your entire team can benefit, eliminating the inconvenience and expense of out-of-town travel.

3 day Agile jump-start

This is the fastest way of bringing your entire product development team to the same level of knowledge and proficiency with Agile methods. We cover all the concepts and practical considerations of adopting an agile framework through a combination of instruction and hands-on workshops. Instruction is immediately followed by one day of consulting where we work with each team to insure readiness for a successful launch of the first sprint.

The package consists of:

  • 2 days of classroom instruction and workshops covering the concepts of Scrum/XP
  • 1 day of planning and readiness assessment with the goal of launching the first sprint.

On-site Coaching

Many organizations find that training their staff gets them started in agile software development but find that they need additional on-site support in making it work for their unique situation. We insure the success of agile adoption by providing assistance with

  • Requirements gathering from customer focus groups using Innovation Games®

  • Release planning

  • Sprint planning

  • Retrospectives

Inspirational talks on Agile Innovation topics

  • Innovation Games®

In this talk, we provide an overview of the set of techniques developed by Luke Hohmann called Innovation Games® that are designed to help product groups gain a deeper understanding of their customers and what they value. Product teams and stakeholder then collaborate to create and prioritize features that become actionable.

  • Solutions Discovery

This talk explores the methods that highly innovative companies such as IDEO, Apple and Google use to generate radical innovation through their agile organizations.


The services can also be combined and customized for your needs.


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