Business Agility Workshop

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?
  • 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

Preparation Session (30 minutes)

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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