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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

Offered by Request Only

This Business Agility workshop consists of several separate sessions that will end with a business team's first iteration planning. It is a 6 hours long workshop and can be scheduled separately per session on your team's availability. Some of the distinct sessions your team will benefit from are:

Identify Business Process (90 minutes): This session includes 

An exercise called "Make your toast," where
    • your team will identify their business process
with their actual product
  • Give each team member a chance to describe a business process they think will bring value to the team
      • 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
    Lead to a discussion about all the business processes shared by your team and define a unified process model

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           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(50 minutes)

    session 

      • Conduct a LACE-facilitated planning for
    Facilitate a planning session to plan

    Set Jira up to support process(90 minutes):

    • Set up Jira to model your defined unified business process.
    • Define an operational model that works with your defined business process
    • Define and create enough work items for 1-2 weeks
    • Review and agree on work placement 
     
      • your team's first
    iteration 

    Conduct a Retro(30 minutes)

    • Facilitate a retrospective session to reflect on the workshop 

    This workshop will close out with a shared overview of the support curriculum and ways your team can get continuous support from the LACE.

    Who should attend?

    Any team that wants to optimize processes, better ways of working, and synchronize with the delivery teams in their program 

    Learning Path: Agility Foundations , Estimating Work , Kanban , Business Agility

     

               

           

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      • 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
      
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    Want to request this workshop for your team?


    Request LACE Support using

    the

    the "Request

    Support

    Workshop" Button below and a member of the LACE will work with

    you can

    your team to begin the process.


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    Business Agility Transition Support