LACE: Business Agility Workshop

The LACE Business Agility Transition Workshop

Business agility helps policy, governance and business teams align with product and service delivery teams to help communication, information, and deliverables flow through the organization in a manner that accelerates the delivery of the end product.  

The Business Agility workshop support's a business team's transition to using practices that have evolved over 22 years of Agile in software product and service delivery.

Starting with a business process mapping exercise and ending with the planning of work for the teams first iterative planning period, this workshop is designed to both impart an understanding of the tools, processes and behaviors that have made agile product delivery successful, and kickstart your team's journey into new ways of working.

1. Identify Business Process 

• • Start with an exercise to your team will identify their business process in completing deliverables
  • Collaborate with the LACE and Atlassian to create or modify your Jira Project to match your business process
  • Create a standard that defines what completed work is

       2. Develop a Backlog

• • Break work down into small and clearly defined Jira Issues
  • Estimate the effort of each issue in preparation for your first planning meeting

       3. Conduct a planning session 

• • Conduct a LACE-facilitated planning for your team's first planning period

       4. Review the and capture the workshop takeaways for your team using an agile retrospective

• • Capture the difficulties and successes of your team throughout the workshop
  • Identify and create improvement items for subsequent planning periods 
  • Learn to facilitate future retrospectives