Goal-focused Scrum Team Workshop

Craft a learning experience for your team

This immersive experiential workshop engages your actual teams and your real customer context to build a shared understanding of the Scrum framework including terminology, process and roles. The teams learn together how to apply the Scrum framework to address customer needs and evolve processes to optimize results. By targeting improvements that matter to you and your teams in your own context with all of its opportunities and constraints, the Goal-Focused Scrum Team Workshop stimulates systemic agility.

Objectives

Using a combination of interactive presentations, problem-solving exercises, and team-structured simulations, the experiential workshop enables participants to:

  • Understand the core principles, strategies, and practices of Scrum

  • Practice applying Agile concepts and techniques in a simulation using your actual products or services

  • Cultivate an Agile mindset vital to effectively implementing Agile practices

  • Experience goal-focused collaborative teamwork

  • Build an action plan for meaningful process improvement

Schedule

Pre-workshop: Coaching sessions to consult with leadership on the workshop goals and to prepare key workshop participants.

Days 1-2: A fast-paced full-release cycle simulation taking your team members through the essentials of Scrum with pragmatic hands-on exercises designed to get them up and running as a team working on a timely, real-world problem from your business domain.

Simulation topics:

  • Scrum Overview

  • Scrum Teams

  • Product Backlog

  • User Stories

  • Estimation

  • Prioritization

  • Sprints

  • Releases

  • Tracking

Day 3: An open space day tying the learning from the simulation back to the workshop goal by activating self-organization within the team to identify, prioritize and plan process improvements.

Who should Attend

New or existing teams who wish to learn how to apply or improve their effectiveness in applying Agile principles and practices.

About the Coach

Jim York
CEC, CST, CTC, CSP, CSPO, CSM
Writer, Speaker, Coach, Trainer

As an executive and team coach, Jim helps individuals, teams and organizations achieve their goals. For over 25 years, Jim has mentored and coached leaders and teams at all levels of the organization. Jim’s interactive training sessions and coaching cultivate the skills and qualities needed to direct, support, and build effective teams.

Jim holds both Certified Agile Coach® credentials (Enterprise Coach and Team Coach) and the Certified Scrum Trainer® credential from the Scrum Alliance, one of only a handful of individuals worldwide to hold all three top level certifications. Jim is also a licensed facilitator for the Agile Fluency® Suite, a Certified LeSS Practitioner, and an Innovation Games® Facilitator.

If you’d like to learn more about this workshop or explore other options for a team-based learning experience, please contact us!