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
Intake questionnaire
- Identify work product(s)
- What is the expected outcome?
- How
- 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
- could be online survey or distrubuted via email
Pre- workshop preparation session (30 minutes)
- Identify current business process
- Identify Bottlenecks (Root cause analysis)
- Identify work items (Features, Stories and Tasks)??
- Share (& schedule?) preparation curriculum
Notes: prep curriculum should be as short as possible and predefined (lightning talks?)
Workshop Objectives
- Identify Business Process
- Set Jira up to support process
- Conduct a planning session
- Conduct a retro
Workshop Agenda
Introduction to the Workshop Objectives and Participants (10 mins)
Introduction to business process (distinguish between a processes and work) (20 mins)
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