About the CSSQ Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)

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About the CCSQ LACE 

For the past three years, the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) has worked hand-in-hand with CCSQ's Information Services Group to guide, support, and foster the adoption of Agile, Scrum, Lean, and SAFe practices. By providing hands-on program and team level support and training to over 700 members of the CCSQ Community, we have supported and guided the CCSQ community to become committed Agile practitioners that value transparency and continuous improvement. 

Agile Expertise 

We have worked closely with ISG program leadership to guide CCSQ’s transition to a product-driven software development approach, and provided direct coaching support for multiple ISG programs. Through portfolio assessment, training, and program/team level coaching, we have developed Lean-Agile change agents across the CCSQ community. The LACE provides:

• Support of seven certified SAFe Program Consultants  
• Experience guiding and optimizing Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe implementations 
• Expertise in coaching and facilitating activities at the team and program level

Program Engagement

The LACE will work with you to tailor program-specific sustained engagement and/or support as needed by request. 

• Program observation, analysis, maturity roadmap, and growth planning 
• Program support planning 
• Integration with software development organizations 
• Program ceremony attendance, support, and facilitation 
• Team ceremony attendance, support, and facilitation
• PI Planning support with hands-on coaching
• “Open Door” policy for any member of the program

Training                                            

The members of the LACE are experienced trainers who have collectively trained over 2000 learners in over 20 unique courses covering Lean/Agile ideas and practices organized into learning paths. We offer the following training

 LACE Training:  Free (but valuable!) agility basics  

• Foundations of Agility
• Foundations of Product Ownership
• Foundations of Scrum Mastery
• Agility Technical Practices Explained
• DevOps Explained
• Crafting Objectives with OKRs
• Test-Driven Development Explained (technical)

• Code Refactoring Explained (technical) 

• Product Innovation Thinking

Scaled Agile (SAFe): Courses with SAFe 5 certification eligibility (SAFe community membership and exam fees included)

• Implementing SAFe
• Leading SAFe 
• SAFe for Teams
• SAFe Scrum Master
• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
• SAFe Agile Product Management 
• SAFe Release Train Engineer
• SAFe Agile Software Engineering (technical)
• SAFe DevOps (technical)
• SAFe for Government 

*For each SAFe training, the LACE facilitates Study Halls for attendees to help prepare for certification exams 

LACE Workshops 

Free 2-4 hour training sessions targeting specific practices and behaviors. 

LACE Clinics 

Free “Bring Your Own Work” sessions to provide help, guidance, advice, and techniques for improvement. 

• OKR Clinic  
• User Story Clinic 
• Refactoring Clinic (technical) 
• Test-Driven Development Clinic (technical)

LACE Learning Tracks: Looking to create advanced skillsets 

*The LACE offers all training offerings for individual program by request that can meet minimum attendance requirements. 

*All workshop, clinic and training hours count as one valid Scrum Education Unit (SEU) for certifications issued by Scrum Alliance. For more information, visit the Scrum Alliance’s SEUs page.