Our team of experienced professionals will work with you and a few of your colleagues to prepare a number of your teams for a "One Day Mission". This one day event will take a predefined unit of work and make it ready to Publish or put in Production by the end of that day. Team members become familiar with the various activities that provide progress toward achieving this. This approach works regardless of whether the team is business, technical, creative, or something else. Wording is used that anyone in the organization can understand. Explanations are also provided for those that may be familiar with other terms used for these same concepts.
Ready is a term you may be familiar with from Scrum. Rather than the term Ready, we use the term Prepare. The team needs to have agreement on when something is ready to work on, how large an effort is acceptable during a work time window, when the work item is complete, how to show the work to stakeholders, and how to get it in front of the people that need to use it. They will document these agreements during the initial visit by the Knowledge Jam Global Team.
The team needs to understand when they Prepare a unit of work to a point that work can begin. The person that heads up creation, preparation, and ordering of the work items is the Product Owner\Manager.
Sprint Planning is a term you may be familiar with from Scrum. Instead of the phrase Sprint Planning, we use the word Plan. In the Plan step, we select the work item that is Prepared to be addressed within the given time frame. In this case, the time frame is the end of that particular day.
When we Perform the work, we do it as fast as we can, and we require cooperation from everyone on the Team to make it happen. One member of the team is responsible for making sure nothing gets in the way. You may be familiar with the term Scrum Master, but we will refer to that person as the Process Owner\Manager.
Sprint Review and Done are terms you may be familiar with from Scrum, but we call this step a Preview because it comes before the work item is published or placed in Production. That way, if it needs any adjustments or additional quality assurance, that can take place before it is provided to the appropriate users. The Product Owner\Manager signs off on the work during this event.
Sprint Retrospective is a term you may be familiar with from Scrum. Instead of Sprint Retrospective, we use the term Process because the purpose of that activity is to improve the Process. This event brings people together briefly to identify things that can be improved and select what to improve...hopefully before the next "Mission".
When the time is right, a streamlined and safe approach is used to provide the unit of work to the users. During our One Day Mission, we may not perform this step, but the work will be available for when the decisionmakers decide it needs to get there.
The price for the initial working agreements and Team preparation as well as the One Day Mission is a standard amount for the first team with up to 10 participants.* Each additional Team of up to 10 participants has an additional fixed cost. Contact Kirk Gould at kirkgould@knowledgejam.com for pricing details and terms.
*Base pricing does not include expenses such as travel and lodging for the Knowledge Jam Global Team.