Team Performance Optimization

Teams drive value delivery in most digital environments.

It is crucial that teams are progressing in maturity and achieving organizational goals. The CCSQ LACE team offers Team Performance Optimization for any team working to produce business value, including Scrum, Kanban and Business teams. In today's distributed work environment teams can face challenges that are easily rectified using the proper techniques. The LACE team can work with any team to identify and resolve common problems, helping them get to the performing stage quicker.

Are your teams’ showing signs that they need support? As a team member, do you see deficiencies in these areas?

• The team is not progressing through Tuckman’s stages of team development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning)
• Are team social contracts being utilized regularly?
• Are hand-offs between teams handled seamlessly?
• Is the teams delivery velocity decreasing or stagnant?
• Is the team empowered to make decisions?
• Are user stories misunderstood by team members?

Any individual or combination of the following services are available by request:

Story Authoring: 

Work with a LACE team member to increase the granularity of your user stories and improve business value statements, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.

Backlog Management: 

• Deep-dive into backlog management practices, learn to optimize the flow of work for your team, and get support finding the right techniques for your program
• Learn to get the most value to users rapidly using redlining techniques to identify critical functions for release. Develop a more robust understanding of the costs and benefits of incremental release of features into production

Social Contract Evaluation:

The LACE team can review existing social contracts and work with team members to realize the true value these contracts deliver. Want to get started without us? View the LACE team's social contracts or request the LACE Social Contracts Training for your program or team.

Estimation Workshop:

Review existing estimation practices and help the team achieve better estimation techniques through engaging training sessions.