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Offered by Request Only

In this workshop the CCSQ LACE will assist business teams through their transition to agile. The Business Agility workshop consists of several separate sessions that will end with a business team's first iteration planning. Some of the distinct session your team will benefit from are:

• Identify your team's business process
• Setup Jira to support this business process
• Conduct a planning session
• Conduct a retrospective session

Who should attend?

Any Business Team willing to go through a transition to agile

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LACE Workshop: Business Agility

Purpose: To assist business teams through their transition to agile

Notes: can we leverage SIR to create better conceptual understanding and increase efficacy of workshop

Pre-Workshop Engagement

Intake questionnaire 

• Identify work product(s)
  • What is the expected outcome?

  • What is the vision for this product?

  • How does the product vision relate to the project goals
• Identify consumer
• Identify external dependencies
• Identify internal dependencies/handoffs

Notes:

• The questionnaire should introduce concepts, subtly, through guidance on answering the questions

• Who should fill out the questionnaire

• It could be an online survey or distributed via email

Preparation Session (30 minutes)

• Describe the workshop engagement process
• Review survey results
• Share (& schedule?) preparation curriculum

Notes: prep curriculum should be as short as possible and predefined (lightning talks?)

Preparation Curriculum:

1. Collective estimation
2. Rules of Kanban
3. Work items in a nutshell

Workshop Objectives

1. Identify Business Process 

2. Set Jira up to support process

3. Conduct a planning session

4. Conduct a retro

Workshop Agenda 

1. Introduction to the Workshop Objectives and Participants (10 mins)

2. Introduction to business process (distinguish between a processes and work) (20 mins)

3. Facilitated “Make your toast” type exercise with their actual product (90 minutes)

   • Individual Process Description (20 min)

Break (10 m)

• • Unify process model (50 min)

Break (10 m)

      4. Set up the Kanban (90 minutes)

• • Model the workflow established with toast (10 min)
  • Define operational model (Scrum and planning cadence or Kanban) (10 min)
  • Define and create enough work items (work in progress and/or new work) for 1-2 weeks (stories or tasks only) Session 1 (25 min)

Break (10 m)

• • Define and create enough work items (work in progress and/or new work) for 1-2 weeks  (stories or tasks only) Session 2 (25 min)
  • Review and agree on work placement (10 Min)

      5. Plan for the agreed time-period (115 minutes)

• • • Relative estimation overview (15 min)

Break (10 m)

• • • Plan the work (50 min)

Break (10 m)

     6. Planning Retrospective (30 minutes)

• • • Plan the work (30 min)

     7. Workshop Closure (15 minutes)

• • Share overview of suggested support curriculum
  • Upsell continued support by the lace