Training/Event | Description | Date(s) | Time | Sign-Up Link |
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LACE Explained: Social Contracts | In this session, learners will gain an understanding of how critical team and program agreements are for team and program success. These formal social contracts are indispensable for creating highly accountable and cooperative cultures at the team and program level. Social contracts define quality, behavioral, and communications expectations. This session will display the importance of how social contracts create alignment on policy and practice. Be ready to gain a deeper understanding of the hierarchy of social contracts, accountability and structure they provide. | | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Program Backlog Management | In this two-hour learning session, the art and technique of managing program backlogs will be demystified. Learners will see how to understand the program backlog in the context of the larger product vision, what preparation is needed for and the mechanics of the program backlog refinement meeting, Feature refinement, the program kanban, and the PI Roadmap. | | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Test- Driven Development: Code Design Workshop | Work with the LACE technical coach and other attendees to design code for a small but complex application using the TDD design pattern. | | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: CCSQ LACE Team Dashboards | The CCSQ LACE dashboard is available for all Scrum and Kanban teams within CCSQ. For those unfamiliar with Agility Metrics, this short session will include a walkthrough of the team dashboard, an overview of each dashboard element, and how to set up the dashboards. | | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Dashboard Metrics Clinic | In this LACE Clinic, learners can work with LACE members to interpret and understand metrics, and identify the right questions to ask to help get to the root causes of team performance problems like quality, reliability and flow. | | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: DevOps | The DevOps explained session is an overview of attributes, benefits, and practices of the culture of DevOps, and will help you understand participate in conversations with teams and stakeholders about DevOps. | | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
User Story Clinic | Are your user stories flatlining? The Coach is in! Work with the LACE to improve them, while learning new techniques to clarify and create value-based requirements. | | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Coaching Corner | Have a question, concern, or wondering if your idea will help your program? Stop by and chat with the LACE coaches about it. | | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Refactoring Clinic | Bring your old, stale spaghetti code and work with the LACE technical coach and other attendees to make it fast and shiny. BYOC. | | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Kanban | What is Kanban? What are the rules? Where did it come from? What is the difference between an agile team being a Kanban team and an agile team using a Kanban? Unravel these mysteries and more in the LACE Kanban Explained 2 hour session. | | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Leading SAFe | You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and why it’s so effective in today’s adapt-or-die marketplace. You’ll also get practical advice on supporting Agile teams and programs, empowering a Lean Portfolio, building a continuous delivery pipeline and DevOps culture, and coordinating large solutions. | | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Business Agility
| What is Business Agility? How can a business be Agile? In this foundational course we will explore concepts from the world of Agile software development and examine how they are being applied to a multitude of disciples, and learners will work together to identify processes issues that Agile methodologies and practices can mitigate. | SAFe Lean-Portfolio Management (LPM) | During this two-day course, you’ll gain understanding of the Lean-Portfolio Management (LPM) approach to collaborate across silos, empower teams, and organize around value to adapt to what customers want, faster.
Attendees will discover how critical aligning strategy with execution is to any organization’s success and a key aspect of Scaled Agile Framework®. The LPM course helps executives, project management officers (PMOs) and other key stakeholders plan dynamically and be flexible enough to adjust initiatives and budgets as the market changes. | | 9:00 AM - 5:00PM (ET) | Register Here |
| Look for more information soon! | | 1:00 PM - 3:00PM (ET) | TBA |
UX & Agile for Software Development | There is a common misconception that design and development are at odds. One prioritizes understanding and the other prioritizes solutioning. Lean, agile, and human-centered design philosophies are meant to be complementary approaches to getting work done.
During this three-hour course, co-facilitated by the CCSQ Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) and the Human-Centered Design Center of Excellence (HCD CoE), attendees will discuss and explore how teams can thoughtfully integrate design and development needs, share responsibility, and achieve a balanced approach to delivery. | | 1:00 PM - 4:00PM (ET) | Register Here |
Business Value
| Join us for Business Value Demystified, a course designed to help define and assess business value effectively within the government context.
During this two-hour course, we will dive deeper into the benefits of clear objectives, empower team’s to make informed decisions and provide tools for assessing business value for your PI objectives. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your expertise and drive meaningful contributions to the organizational goal! | | 10:00 AM - 12:00PM (ET) | Register Here |
LACE Explained: OKR
| Learn how to write effective OKRs in this short format learning session | OKR Clinic
| Free “Bring Your Own Work” sessions to provide help, guidance, advice, and techniques for improvement. | LACE CoP | In this session, you will gain insight into the evolution of OKRs in ISG and be extended the opportunity to hear from ISG Leadership. | | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: CCSQ LACE Team Dashboards | The CCSQ LACE dashboard is available for all Scrum and Kanban teams within CCSQ. For those unfamiliar with Agility Metrics, this short session will include a walkthrough of the team dashboard, an overview of each dashboard element, and how to set up the dashboards. | | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Dashboard Metrics Clinic | In this LACE Clinic, learners can work with LACE members to interpret and understand metrics, and identify the right questions to ask to help get to the root causes of team performance problems like quality, reliability and flow. | | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Sign Up Now |
Test- Driven Development: Code Design Workshop | Work with the LACE technical coach and other attendees to design code for a small but complex application using the TDD design pattern. | | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
User Story Clinic | Are your user stories flatlining? The Coach is in! Work with the LACE to improve them, while learning new techniques to clarify and create value-based requirements. | | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Coaching Corner | Have a question, concern, or wondering if your idea will help your program? Stop by and chat with the LACE coaches about it. | | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Refactoring Clinic | Bring your old, stale spaghetti code and work with the LACE technical coach and other attendees to make it fast and shiny. BYOC. | | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master | In this two-day course, as a practicing scrum master in a SAFe® organization, you’ve got the tactical skills to coach Agile teams in delivering business value. Build on that strong foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams. | | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: OKR | Learn how to write effective OKRs in this short format learning session | | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
OKR Clinic | Free “Bring Your Own Work” sessions to provide help, guidance, advice, and techniques for improvement. | | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: CCSQ LACE Team Dashboards | The CCSQ LACE dashboard is available for all Scrum and Kanban teams within CCSQ. For those unfamiliar with Agility Metrics, this short session will include a walkthrough of the team dashboard, an overview of each dashboard element, and how to set up the dashboards. | | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
Dashboard Metrics Clinic | In this LACE Clinic, learners can work with LACE members to interpret and understand metrics, and identify the right questions to ask to help get to the root causes of team performance problems like quality, reliability and flow. | | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Technical Agility | Ever wonder what the engineers are talking about? Interested in following the conversation and asking better questions? Attend this two hour session to demystify concepts such as Test Driven Development, the benefits of continuous integration, how automated tests work, and what are the techniques and practices that enable rapid, high quality, and successful agile software development. | | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Product Innovation Thinking | How do product managers brainstorm? When in the HCD cycle should we ideate on our user research? This course traces the history of two products that have existed throughout history, and gives the participants the opportunity to ideate and find ways to improve the product in the future. | | 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM | Sign Up Now |
LACE Explained: Backlog Prioritization | TBA | COMING SOON! | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | TBA |