Workshops
Our coaches help companies scale their Agile transformations with essential experiential workshops that align with business strategy, technology investments, and corporate goals.
Workshops are sometimes the best starting point as you implement new practices within your organization.
SHAKA NYORA works within your unique context to apply and plan such practices as you move forward with execution.
KEY OUTCOMES:
- Brings theory to practice within your organization
- Engages the team to think critically about how these practices will be implemented internally
- Work hands-on with SAFe experts to solve early problems and challenges
OKR WORKSHOP
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) establish broad strategic alignment throughout the organization as teams understand how their work contributes to the organization’s top objectives. OKRs Connect strategy, execution, and delivered outcomes while bringing a sense of purpose to your teams. It’s crucial to focus on the top priorities of the organization while uncovering problems earlier in the development cycle.
VALUE STREAM WORKSHOP
Value streams are the primary construct in SAFe for understanding, organizing, and delivering value to the customer and the enterprise. Attempting to shortcut or breeze through this crucial step can derail your transformation before it begins. Getting value streams right enables the organization to accelerate the flow of value across functional silos, activities, and boundaries.
The SAFe ART Quickstart reduces lead-time by quickly getting the ART launched and into executing and learning. The Quickstart consists of three parts: preparation, SAFe for Teams training, and PI Planning.
Using this approach, all teams on the ART are trained together, and the first Program Increment (PI) planning session is completed in just one week. While this may seem daunting, hundreds of rollouts have proven that this is the easiest and most pragmatic way to help 100-plus people transition to the new way of working.
During this one-day workshop, you will be guided through planning, preparation, and execution of a three-part Inspect and Adapt event: PI System Demo, Quantitative Assessment, and Problem-Solving Workshop. The importance of the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop cannot be understated. It enables every Agile Release Train (ART) to improve every Program Increment (PI).
As a workshop, this course uses a combination of lecture, class discussion, and hands-on exercises, with emphasis on group activities, to reinforce the concepts and principles. The workshop is designed to benefit a new Agile project team attending as a group, providing a common foundation of knowledge and experience for everyone on the team. Participants will build a Product Backlog and initial Release Plan for the project they bring to the class, giving them a firm foundation for the early Sprints.
Design Thinking is a framework for teams to collaborate and work more efficiently while placing end users at the center of the design process. It is an iterative process to understand the user, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in order to identify alternative solutions.