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AsileSparks believes in a result-oriented approach and has proven experience in breaking the "glass ceiling" of organizational improvement. We view our clients as partners in the Agile adoption process and aspire to apply an ROI-based pricing model for all of our services to ensure a commitment and result-oriented approach from both sides. Looking at the process from a holistic point of view, we offer a set of implementation modules and services that cover all the organizational aspects of a company. These enable transforming the entire organization (or teams) into Agile mindsets and practices: executives' buy-in workshops, HR and management workshops, consulting, team coaching and Agile engineering practices (XP). We work hand-in-hand with our customers to understand their specific business needs and constraints, to define the required KPI and to outline a time-boxed plan to achieve them. A typical implementation package consists of two phases.
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Phase one - Agile boost - around 3 months |
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Going agile through Scrum involves high levels of organizational change and requires crucial executive support to be sustainable and successful. This is because Scrum surfaces organizational dysfunctions that are a barrier to agile progress and it does so very quickly from adoption. To mitigate any negative impact of these changes and to maximize organizational support, awareness is created in the organization by means of workshops and seminars which are tailored and facilitated for primary and secondary stakeholders in the organization. This phase creates the required mindset shifting of the organization and provides teams with the necessary education, mentoring and guidance to become hyper-productive, self-sufficient, Agile.
Preparations and organizational support raising:
At the end of the preparation phase the teams and the organization have the right knowledge, mind-set and enthusiasm to leave their comfort zone to a new era.
Sprints support (typically 3-4 sprints): Supporting and coaching of all Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, sprint execution, sprint review and retrospective. Sprint execution coaching
ScrumScan At the end of the first phase, a ScrumScan will be conducted by an external AgileSparks coacher. The ScrumScan results will allow management to uncover gaps and apply improvements in the way Scrum was implemented.
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Phase two - Advanced Agile |
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A special focus will be put on continuous integration, TDD and testing approaches, as well as an advanced Scrum Master course. The course will aid Scrum Masters to gain more skills and advanced insights that will improve their field support and allow the organization to increase the benefits of Agile/Scrum. The entire package can be tailored as needed. |