Agile Assessment Services

We will work with you and evaluate your teams’ effectiveness with existing Agile processes, best practices and standards, that together we will agree upon at the start of the assessments. These elements will form the core of our assessment, and the findings and recommendations in our deliverables. Some possible assessment elements will consist of:

Existing Team organization and Structure
Existing Value Stream and Program Stream Assessments
Existing Themes, Epics, Features, Stories and Tasks
Existing Agile Workflow being used by the Team
Existing Scrum Ceremonies or if you are using a hybrid approach
Existing Sprint Demo’s, Planning/Grooming, Retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums
Existing Measurements and Metrics
Existing Definition of Done Understanding

Our assessments are a collaborative effort with your team and management. We will attending your agile team ceremonies and fully observe your team members, and the team as a whole. We'll also work with individual team members and their roles. After our assessment, we will deliver to you a written assessment and impact recommendation for your process improvements.

We use a variety of assessment tools such as the Agile Journey Index developed by Bill Krebs.

ASSESSING

How well are the teams working remotely?
Are your teams new to remote or were already using remote operations?
Are they performing all ceremonies when remote and distributed
How are PO interacting with teams in this virtual situations (how do they share their business case details)
How are team performing their demos (especially with product/software executions, UX display, Usability aspects)
Is the interactions between individuals at the same level as before?

AGILITY DURING

COVID-19

Our Team will attend team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
We will conduct interviews and gather information from Team members and management.
We will provide comprehensive document findings on current state and gaps
We will work with you to Prepare strategic and tactical recommendations
Present findings based on support of the 12 Agile principles and 4 Agile values
Identify and discuss possibility of using scaled Agile

APPROACH

Current state documentation
Looking for anti-patterns and trends (positive & negative)
SWOT Analysis
Maturity score (1-5) for each assessment vector
People, process, & tools recommendations
Key performance indicators & metrics (KPI’s) for improvement and recommendation implementation

DELIVERABLES

INDICATORS

FOR SUCCESS

If our recommendations are followed and goes well, you should start seeing one or more of these reaffirming behaviors occur:
Your Entire teams will begin to think in terms of incremental delivery releases
Communication flow with stakeholders, 3rd parties, and teams will improve
The Speed and quality of release deliverables will increases
Team planning and estimates will become more accurate
You will notice better collaboration among teams, stakeholders, client, and management will improve
You will notice that more of your process activities and development activities will be automated or lean.
Your Team will have a mindset of Continuous improvement at every given Agile Gates.
Your Team and everyone in the organization will have a sense of empowerment, freedom and acceptance to change - not only the software itself, but the process, and even people’s attitudes.
Your team will always have a potentially shippable product at the end of every sprint.
Tight-knit, focused teams with strong technical skills keep costs low.
Increasing transparencies with all stakeholders, teams, and management.
Focus on quality to avoid rework and disappointments from the customer.
Keep your software simple and your options open (wary of technical debt )
Your Return on Investments will be realized.
Team comraderies and working together will be noticeable.
Better measurements and metrics, and predictability.
Everyone in the organization will learn how to adapt to changes and changing priorities.