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Implement the Agile Team

Introduce and accelerate Scrum practices throughout your teams! We deliver this four-day service through a combination of training, coaching and hands-on workshops during two on-site visits.  Teams new to Agile development learn the Agile way of thinking, while teams comfortable with Agile will fine-tune their practices. This offering gives your team the best possible start for their Agile adoption.

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Plan and Execute Two Sprints

Upon completion of this workshop your teams will have:

  • Effectively planned and executed two time-boxed sprints
  • Built and groomed a backlog of high-value user stories
  • Gained visibility into valuable team and delivery metrics
  • Demonstrated progress to stakeholders
  • Inspected, adapted and improved through facilitated retrospectives

On-Site, Hands-On Coaching with Software Teams and Managers

This service is divided into two on-site visits (Parts I and II), each designed to help software teams and managers accelerate their Scrum adoption.

Part I

What’s Happening Now? Where are We Going?
First, we’ll facilitate a retrospective on your current environment to fine-tune team learning objectives. Next, we’ll introduce Agile values and practices and teach your team how they apply to their world.

Groom the Backlog
Next, we’ll facilitate a team backlog grooming session to ensure that your product backlog contains appropriately sized and prioritized items.  Lessons will include analog exercises.

Plan the Sprint
Using a rough velocity estimate, the team will plan their first sprint in Rally. They will review the highest priority backlog stories, conduct capacity planning, tasking and finally, commit to the sprint. 


Part II

Demo a Product Increment for Stakeholders
We will brief the team and stakeholders on the purpose of the demonstration.  Then, the team will demonstrate a working product increment for stakeholders to gather feedback to potentially incorporate into the next sprint.

Learn from the Retrospective
We will facilitate a retrospective scoped to the prior sprint time-box. The team will share observations and opportunities for improvement and then discuss and prioritize action items they may plan for the next sprint.

Groom the Backlog and Plan the Next Sprint
The team will revisit the backlog to review, define, break down and prioritize stories based on any changes that occurred during the first sprint. Next, they will plan their second sprint using the results of the first sprint as a reference.

Price

  • $13,800 plus travel and expenses
  • A La Carte additions available for $2,950/service

Availability

The Implementing The Agile Team offering is available as a four-day on-site engagement typically delivered over 30 days or less. Contact your Rally account representative at sales@rallydev.com to schedule. Complete this form and a Rally Representative will follow-up with you shortly.

A La Carte Offerings

The Implementing the Agile Team 4-day service can be augmented with additional Rally coaching services. Any of these options can be added for an additional price of $2,950.

  • 1-day Product Backlog Grooming – in preparation for the Iteration Planning meeting, succeeding with Agile your Rally coach will spend a day with your Agile team, Product Owner / Customer Representative to develop, rewrite, or decompose the features / requirements in your Backlog.
  • 1-day User Story Workshop – your entire Agile team (and other possible participants) will work through this interactive set of exercises that introduces teams to the notion of User Stories as backlog items: what their value is, how to write them, how to size them
  • 1/2 day Agile Executive Overview – this workshop helps the organization's leadership team understand how Agile principles and practices benefit the whole organization. It also helps participants understand the "rules of engagement" that Agile asks them to follow for organizational success.
  • 1/2 day "Introduction to Agile" – this 4-hour add-on is designed to introduce large audiences beyond the pilot Agile team to Agile and help them understand how it is applied throughout an organization
  • 1-day Rally Product Training – this interactive full-day workshop helps teams apply their Agile practices in the Rally tool. Teams learn how each of the Agile team roles can take best advantage of the Rally tool functions.
  • 1-day General Consulting – have an expert Rally Coach provide ad-hoc consulting to anyone in your organization in a "Doctor is IN" setting. Individuals or teams can meet in time-boxed sessions to address any issues or questions they like. Alternately, General Consulting time may be used by the Management Team to work with the Coach on designing and planning their Agile rollout for other parts of the organization.