Learn how to supercharge your Scrum team with Artificial Intelligence (AI)!
Join us for this free webinar as Nick Kramer, experienced Agile consultant, trainer, and Agile Steam Lead, demystifies AI and discusses how AI can boost your Scrum team’s productivity and efficiency. In this session, Nick discusses:
- Writing Effective Prompts for AI
- Communicating with AI
- Writing clear, concise prompts
- Examples of good and bad prompts
- Interpreting AI responses
- Using AI for Team Building
- Using AI to improve team dynamics
- AI tools for sentiment analysis during meetings
- AI-driven team-building activities
- Incorporating AI Scrum
- Scrum Ceremonies
- Quality Assurance and Testing
- The Ethical Implications and Challenges of Using AI
- Data privacy, bias in AI, and the importance of human oversight
At the conclusion, Nick will welcome your questions.
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!
Audience:
- Team Leaders
- Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Product Owners
- Project Managers
About the Presenter:
Nick Kramer brings more than 15 years of real-life Agile experience to every class he creates and teaches. In his career, he has been an Agile Trainer, Agile Coach, Leadership Coach, Scrum Master, and Product Owner who has trained more than 10,000 people. He is a firm believer in driving innovation within organizations by harnessing the power of the team through a Design Thinking approach.
Nick prides himself on making Agile ‘Fun and Simple.’ His philosophy is that team members should enjoy coming to work and find creative ways to connect with their organization’s value stream.
Discover how the Agile methodology, Azure Boards, and Azure DevOps can be tightly integrated to help teams to work more efficiently and effectively!
Agile project planning is a project management methodology that emphasizes flexibility and adaptability in software development. It involves breaking down a project into smaller, more manageable pieces called iterations.
Azure Boards is a standalone service within the Azure DevOps suite that helps teams plan, track, and discuss work across the entire software development process the agile way. It provides interactive and customized tools for software development teams to manage their projects.
Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software. It allows organizations to create and improve products at a faster pace than they could with traditional software development approaches.
In this one-hour webinar, attendees learn how to:
- Use Azure Boards to manage projects the Agile way, including Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog planning
- Use Azure Repos as an SCM solution on Azure
- Implement Continuous Integration using Azure Repos and Pipelines
- Implement Continuous Delivery/Deployment using Delivery Pipelines
- Work with Test plans
At the conclusion, Faheem will welcome your questions.
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with applications in the Microsoft 365 collaboration suite, including SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!
Many leadership buzzwords are floating around, including “Servant Leadership,” “Participative Leadership,” “Command and Control Leadership,” and more. To be a truly effective leader, there are many factors to consider. These factors include the industry, culture, team dynamics, psychological safety, team growth phase, and individual motivation.
This webinar will discuss assessing your team’s current state and using the team ownership model to create goals to transfer responsibility and accountability to a self-managed team. We will introduce the team ownership model and some of its various tools that can launch your teams into a hyper-productive state.
Join us for this 1-hour webinar as Nick Kramer, experienced Agile consultant and trainer and Agile Steam Lead, explains Agile Leadership and how to facilitate a hyper-productive team.
Topics:
- Learn what psychological safety really is.
- Introduce the team ownership model.
- Receive a free ‘Patterns of Hyper-Productive Team’ cheat sheet.
- Learn new tips to take your Daily Standup to the next level.
Agile development teams often focus on development at the expense of architecture. Architecture that is “thrown over the wall” to developers is even seen as anti-agile. These teams miss the value of architecture to help agile development be more effective – even more agile – by providing an outline that guides development decisions. When integrated with development, architecture can itself be agile, evolving with the system being built.
During this webinar we’ll explore agile architecture and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). We discuss SAFe because of its popularity as an enterprise-scale agile framework, but the agile architecture methods discussed can benefit any agile development practice.
Our Product Thinking program is a great enhancement to Product Owner and Scrum Master training, as well as a unique offering for Product Managers. Whereas most workshops focus on the team level, the Product Thinking training teaches us how to define value, and how to engage with customers before we reach the team level, thus moving from a project mindset to a product mindset. It addresses challenges such as building the right product at the right time, and helps these job roles to define a strategic roadmap to address which challenges are most pressing, and how to align these with the business objectives. Most scaling frameworks recommend a move to product thinking/design thinking in order to engage more efficiently with customers, to determine challenges and opportunities, and design appropriate solutions.
Please join us to learn about our unique approach to Product Thinking that merges Design Thinking, Agile UI\UX, and the Mobius Loop Product Delivery framework.
Agile and Architecture may be seen as having conflicting objectives – the former is adaptable and open to change, the latter is rigid and constrains solutions. When Architecture and Agile are treated as separate independent phases, it’s often true, but leveraging both together changes the game. At the intersection of the two, having the right practices can drive more predictable and *more* agile development.
This webinar explores that intersection between Architecture and Agile. We identify those key aspects of Architecture and key aspects of Agile that are essential to success, and start to break down some of the myths that can stand between architects and agilists. By the end of the webinar, you’ll have an appreciation for the potential for Agile and Architecture to support and compliment each other rather than being in conflict.
The power of Lean-Coffee is that you get to choose the topics. Come with questions or scenarios that you would like to discuss or bring your expertise and knowledge to share.
Why Attend?
• If you are interested in connecting with other Agilists
• If you have questions or situations that you would like to get an outside perspective
Lean Coffee is a structured workshop where the group creates the agenda by building and prioritizing the backlog of topics. Each topic is then time-boxed and addressed through
various activities to thoroughly discuss each topic, such as group breakouts, group discussion, instructor-led slides, or pass the pen.
Goals and Objectives
• To empower Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development Teams, and Leads with a forum to discuss and solve specific situational questions
• To allow discussion of real-life examples, beyond what is feasible in the classes.
Design Thinking and Agile are two sides of the same coin. Design Thinking when implemented correctly, can help an organization to identify which products or new features add the most value to their customers. For example, in the world of banking, Design Thinking can be utilized to determine which new features should be added to an online banking platform to attract and retain customers. In the restaurant sector we might use Design Thinking to determine which new services will help retain customers that have families.
Design Thinking is for Product Owners, Stakeholders, and teams to help determine what to build or what feature to offer next. Agile is the process that is used to implement these ideas. Both Design Thinking and Agile uses an iterative approach to generate feedback loops. We can then use these feedback loops to validate that we’re building the correct product, and to reduce our Return on Investment.
In this course will be using a real-life project to walk thru the Design Thinking process to illustrate the steps, and demonstrate the results. We’ll then explore how to use these results within your current Agile teams.
We are all getting creative on ways of building teams in a remote work place. In this webinar we’ll be covering three topics:
• 5 tips to keep your team engaged on a daily basis
• Review of two of our new 1/2 day remote team building workshops
• Open discussion on sharing your personal favorite tips and tricks for engaging with remote teams
Design Thinking and Agile are two sides of the same coin. Design Thinking when implemented correctly can help an organization to identify which products add the most value to their customers. For example, in the world of banking Design Thinking can be utilized to determine which new features should be added to an online banking platform to attract and retain customers. In the restaurant sector we might use Design Thinking to determine which new services will help retain customers that have families.
If Design Thinking is a way to determine what to build or offer next, then Agile is the process that we then use to implement these ideas. Agile uses an iterative approach to building the product and services in such a way that we can provide the customer with something incrementally to generate feedback loops. We can then use these feedback loops to validate that we’re building the correct product, and to reduce our ROI.
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has affected businesses across the world. As leaders, we have worked hard over the past months to execute immediate actions like a pivot to Virtual Everything, and Working From Home (WFH). Even as things have stabilized, we all know that we’re a long way away from the next normal. How can we best use this unprecedented time to prepare our organizations for the future? Agile leaders are investing in three areas:
1. Lean Mindset. Developing a Lean mindset from executives to individual contributors helps drive consistency of purpose, and alignment of action end-to-end across the enterprise.
2. Agile and DevOps Engineering Excellence. Advanced agile engineering practices like Test Driven Development (TDD) help leverage investment in Agile teams, and perfectly complement DevOps CICD platforms. Together, they greatly enhance speed to market.
3. Lean Portfolio Management. Ensuring that we work on building the right things for our customers greatly reduces wasted effort and cost. Lean Portfolio Management also helps us build discipline around Work in Process (WIP) limits, and helps us focus on chunking and prioritizing the right product and services to dramatically improve flow and agility.
Join Sanjiv (CEO) and Roland (SVP, Business Agility) to learn how agile leaders are using the pandemic time to retool their organization for the hypercompetitive future, via the three elements above.
In these uncertain times most organizations are facing challenges on improving how employees work in teams. Team Coaches (Managers, Agile Coaching, Technical Leads) are being forced to adapt too. At Web Age Solutions we have experienced virtual coaches that have been successfully coaching remotely for years. During this one hour session we’ll give the best practices for coaching remotely. We’ll also be reviewing some options for tools and techniques that will help facilitate meetings and events, even if your teams have limited virtual tools.
Why Design Thinking?
Design Thinking leads you to innovative new solutions starting with quick low-fidelity experiments that provide learning, and gradually increase in fidelity. In turn this saves money, helps you move faster, and create better products.
Areas where Design Thinking can apply:
Product design
Service and experience design
Business design
Leadership
Organizational change
What we’ll cover:
Design thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, and Continuous Adaptation
The five steps to Design Thinking:
1. Empathize
2. Define
3. Ideate
4. Prototype
5. Test
Have you been doing Agile for a while now but still have challenges with the following: reducing handoffs, gathering effective requirements, testing all stories in a sprint, building the right thing, scaling? These are common problems that some of the most experienced organizations and teams struggle with. At Web Age we have helped organizations overcome many of these hurdles. Join us to learn about these 5 common pain points, and what you can implement to begin to solve these issues.
My organization thinks that automating tests is complicated and requires advanced programing skills. In fact almost anyone can do it. During this webinar we’ll demonstrate how to automate your BDD tests using Cucumber and Selenium. We’ll show you real-life examples, and show you just how simple these technologies can be to learn.
Do you struggle to write good acceptance criteria? Do you struggle to incorporate testers into the Agile process? Do you struggle to automate testing? This workshop will introduce Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and introduce your teams to the tools, techniques, and practices necessary to take software development processes to the next level. Join us for an introduction of BDD concepts as well as a chance to see BDD in action through the use of a requirement specification language that bridges the gap between your business and technical teams.
During this webinar, we will discuss the following scenarios:
My organization has recently decided to implement the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), so…
• INDIVIDUAL (General): My title doesn’t match up with the SAFe roles, so which SAFe role is most appropriate for me?
• INDIVIDUAL (General): Which SAFe training will I need?
• INDIVIDUAL (Scrum Master): If I start as a Scrum Master, what will be the professional development path?
• INDIVIDUAL (Scrum Master): If I already have the CSM or PSM1, do I need to get the SSM?
• INDIVIDUAL (Product Owner): If I start as a Product Owner, what will be the professional development path?
• INDIVIDUAL (Developer): If I start as a Developer, what will be the professional development path?
• INDIVIDUAL (Architect): I’m an Architect. Which SAFe courses should I take?
• MANAGERS: Which SAFe training will my people need?
• MANAGERS: Which SAFe training will I need?
• EXECUTIVES: Which SAFe training will I need?
• HUMAN RESOURCES: Which SAFe training will I need?
• FINANCE: Which SAFe training will I need?
• LEGAL: Which SAFe training will I need?
• ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Which SAFe training will I need?
In our last Agile Coaching webinar we discovered where Agile Coaching started and how we got to where we are today. In this webinar we will be discussing where the profession is headed in the next 5 to 10 years and what are the new frontiers and challenges for an Agile Coach.
Learn the 5 basic skills that every Agile Coach should master today and the 5 new skills that a coach should be prepared to dive into to help their clients and teams to build upon the solid foundation. Hint: DevOps, Agile Engineering, ExecutiveManagerial Coaching.
Agile Coaching is a relatively new profession in the world of software. In the very beginning of agile, there was no concept of the “Agile Coach” as a role. There were two fan favorites on the scene in the beginning. There was Extreme Programming (XP), with the “Coach” role as the facilitator of the process, Scrum with the “Scrum Master as the facilitator.As people started seeing the benefits of agile, companies wanted to change. Shortly after the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Agile Coaches started to emerge. Companies needed help transitioning to Scrum and/or XP.
At first, Agile Coaches were mostly agile teachers, teaching people the “practices” of the frameworks primarily at the team level. Quickly, as organizations wanted to expand their adoption of agile, the profession grew to be much more than that of a teacher. Now, with scaling frameworks becoming ubiquitous, there is yet even more that is required of the agile coach.
During this Webinar, we will go review where Agile Coaching started, where it is now, and where it should go.
Many companies are trying to make the transition to agile, and in particular Scrum. Transitioning to agile requires challenging the current status quo and strategically inspecting & adapting to find better ways of developing software. Without a solid understanding of agile and the amount of change that is required, there will be an overwhelming amount of resistance from both leadership and the development teams.
In this webinar, we will explore:
• What agile is and what it is not.
• The importance of clearly defining the goals of the agile transition.
• How the current culture, processes and even the current architecture can greatly impact where you start.
• A set of anti-patterns to look for during your agile transition and what to do about them.
This webinar will provide some ideas that can give your agile transition a better chance for success.
Your team will be facilitated through key areas to define, launch and accelerate a Digital Transformation process. They will learn about the effect the transformation is having on leading teams, and how a focus on the core concepts of Agility, Innovation, Collaboration and Inclusion will help them manage the uncertainties the Digital Transformation creates. They will discuss techniques to to develop digital capabilities, extend networks for innovation, and get “all brains in the game”. Case studies track the digital journey roadmap taken by other global enterprises and in session collaborative teamwork support digital transformation immersion as well as identifies possible paths to success for organizations.
Topics in this webinar:
– Writing good user stories – Agile work break down structure
– Why do we need to breakdown work
– What is breakdown structure
– Agile work breakdown structure explained
– What is user story format and why is the format so important
– What are some of the pitfalls in user stories
– How is user story written and who writes it
– What are different types of user stories
– Benefits of good user stories
Topics:
1. Absence of product owner – what do we do about it
2. Scrum Master working as Project Manager –What is the difference in the 2 roles
3. Retrospective produces no improvement – Are we doing it right.
4. Absence of Team loyalty – Do we have the right organization structure
5. Demo elicits no meaningful feedback for the team – Have stakeholders bought into Agile reluctantly
• Essentials of Agile Engineering
• Unit Testing
• TDD
• Refactoring
• Static code analysis
• Test quality
• Automated Web Testing
• Automated Service Testing
An Agile environment changes the way you practice Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture. In this presentation, we will discuss how the architecture deliverables, architecture compliance and stakeholder communication adjust to the rhythm of an agile organization. Application modernization and Microservices architecture will be explored.
Agility is crucial for the Digital Transformation of a business. In this presentation, we will cover the fundamental concepts. We will also discuss the mechanisms to instill agility in the business as well as the IT side of the company. The common impediments to Agility and the current best practices to overcome these will be explored.
Agile is becoming more and more pervasive as the preferred approach to software development. This, at a time, when organizations around the globe are seeking to provide better structure to technology and alignment with business through the practice of Architecture. On the surface, the two, Agile and Architecture, seem at odds. Many companies are struggling to make both work. Come join this webinar to learn about the training we have put together to understand the relationship between Agile and Architecture and the possibility for a new approach, Agile Architecture.
