Agile Assessment
If your software organization has moved to Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, or another Agile approach and you’re disappointed with the results so far, Construx can help. We will guide you through a realistic assessment of your current implementation, improvement goals, and business objectives–and formulate a plan to get the most from your Agile adoption.
Questions and Issues
- Everyone talks about how great Agile is, but we’re not seeing the results everyone else is seeing
- We can’t figure out what’s wrong with our Agile implementation
- Agile works for our smaller teams but we struggle with our large product development efforts
- Agile worked well for our first adopter teams, but we are having challenges as we scale
- Agile is working well for individual teams, but we’ve lost visibility at the portfolio level
- It seems like we’ve traded predictability for flexibility—we need both
Typical Solution
- Survey people across your organization about what is working and is not
- Review and analyze your Agile work products to create a set of preliminary focus issues
- Conduct onsite interviews with select cross-functional staff members
- Provide preliminary findings for your consideration and input
- Work together to craft actionable recommendations for changes needed to achieve business goals
- Present the Agile assessment findings to company executives
- Conduct a planning workshop with your staff to create an action plan
Results You Can Expect
- Clear understanding of what’s working in your current Agile implementation
- Insight into current gaps and challenges
- Plan for fine tuning your Agile adoption, including adopting new processes and team-level practices to support and scale Agile
- Action plan for implementing the recommendations including owners, timeframes, and deliverables