Are you ready to scale successfully?

Your success depends on management structures, relationships, and organizational culture. It also depends on the  skills, tools, and practices your teams are mastering.

What investments are required to create the environment that cultivates progress and mastery of team skills and capabilities at scale?

What are the benefits you can expect in return?

• Do you need consistent and sustainable team focus on producing value that is fully aligned with business goals?
• Do you need high-quality, predictable, and reliable continous delivery capabilities that come from mastering technical and engineering practices?
• Do you need to be a disrupter?  Do you need to achieve the goal of optimizing value through business agility?

Help your teams chart a path to an agreed-upon goal of mastery. 

In this hands-on session you will work together with others who share your passion in order to uncover strategies that develop team proficiency and produce the outcomes your business and customers need. Plan your investment strategy in Agile Practices at the team level to help you gain new insights for working at scale. 

We will be working with the team-based  Agile Fluency™ Model from James Shore and Diana Larsen to understand your individual teams' development. We will explore what the model can teach us about mastery that supports scaling your Agile principles and practice while you create an environment that fits your customer and business needs best. 

• As a manager, HR consultant, or project office expert you will discover a pathway for team development as you explore appropriate structures for cultivating Agile teams working at scale.
• As a coach, Scrum Master, or team lead you will uncover strategies for coaching your team and organisation to master then practices that fit your organisation best.
• As a developer, QA expert or other builder with an eye on scaled success you will uncover a path of craftsmanship that will take  you from building code to the state of “code whisperer” (if you choose to take it).
• As a business liason, product owner, or product manager you will uncover strategies to help you discover, deliver and optimise the value in your product.

Using play to build a better beginning through Agile Chartering

Better teams create better outcomes.  A liftoff (as described in the book Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies) at the outset of a new endeavour helps teams set the stage for betterness by cocreating a shared understanding of purpose, establishing alignment and understanding the context of the work they will do together.  While the activities to include in a Lift Off will vary according to team and context, the practice of Agile Chartering - collaboratively developing a lightweight yet effective roadmap for the project and the team - is key to aligning and inspiring people to do better work together.

The purpose of an Agile Chartering workshop is to give all stakeholders of a project a voice and the opportunity to co-create a common understanding of the project dynamics, its purpose and context. It creates co-ownership of the project within the project team and thereby higher commitment to the project goals.

In this workshop, we will explore the objectives of Agile Chartering and foster a playful approach to doing this work. We'll talk about what kinds of games can be used to cocreate Purpose, Alignment and Context with a team, and run at least one game that can be used for each of the elements of an Agile Charter