Agile Corporate Training Services

Agile consultants are subject matter experts having worked with multiple, cross domain customers in both IT and non IT businesses. Benzne as an agile consulting and training services company understands the business context of the client, the current process maturity, team structure etc along with the desired to-be state before planning the agile transformation strategy. While starting the agile transformation journey, leadership and team training are planned to set the tone of the transformation journey. More specific, role based, framework based, event based, metrics based, tool based and other on-the-job trainings are planned in the next phase of bringing agility in the system along with hands-on agile coaching. It is important that you select the right partner – one which has competencies in agile consulting, agile training and agile coaching. 

Agile training for corporate orgs helps bring in awareness and understanding of core agile principles, roles and responsibilities of an agile team, ceremonies and what are the intentions behind doing those. With training, the teams are educated with best practices and set expectations as to what it means to work in an agile environment. Though it depends on the course outline of the training, below are a few ways agile trainings could improve your teams

• Understanding of agility and its core principles
• Different frameworks and what suits your team
• What are the ceremonies, their intentions and how to facilitate them
• What are the different roles and their responsibilities
• Ways and channels of collaboration and the mindset to have
• Simulation exercises to get a practical gist of Agile mindset and way of working

Agile ways of working help organizations adapt to changes in a VUCA world, constantly innovate and reinvent themselves and be more customer centric to deliver exceptional value to their end clients. Agile helps to improve execution certainty, transparency, predictability, collaboration, time-to-market, pull based work culture, one team mindset and overall alignment with core organizational business objectives.

We keep specific organizational requirements in consideration when designing core agile training programs, trainers routinely tweak course coverage during the session to accommodate context driven learning needs. They are able to do so because of multiple years of experience as an hands-on agile practitioner.

Our agile consulting credentials, ability to customize, leverage various agile frameworks and ability to include industry best practices sets us apart from other agile business training companies and agile coaching companies which focus only on coverage, framework or certification led training programs or framework led coaching and implementation.

Agile training for organization helps bring in awareness and understanding of core agile principles, roles and responsibilities of an agile team, ceremonies and what are the intentions behind doing those. With trainings, the teams are educated with best practices and sets expectations as to what it means to work in an agile environment Though it depends on the course outline of the training, below are a few ways agile trainings could improve your teams

• Understanding of agility and its core principles
• Different frameworks and what suits your team
• What are the ceremonies and their intentions
• What are the different roles and their responsibilities
• Ways and channels of collaboration and the mindset to have
• Simulation exercises to get a practical gist of Agile mindset and way of working

Agile projects cater to continuously improving the backlog of work which also keeps changing during the course of the execution. Agile estimation is a process of keeping the blast radius minimum in just enough planning. Agile estimation corporate trainings help teams with the following key points 

• Awareness of what is agile testing
• Understanding the mindset shift needed in estimation of agile backlog 
• Techniques to estimate different work items based on uncertainty, complexity and effort 
• Different levels of estimation. T shirt sizing of epics, story point estimation 
• Simulation of planning poker and relative size estimation techniques

Agile estimation training can significantly improve project planning and delivery by providing teams with the skills, techniques, and mindset needed to estimate work accurately and effectively within an Agile framework. 

As an agile training and consulting company, Benzne Agile consultants are hands-on agile practitioners who work with multiple clients across the globe designing, leading and implementing agile transformations in different contexts, business environments and cultures. This exposure and sharp focus on business outcomes gives us an immense all round real world experience of implementing and bringing agility across multiple levels and keeps us up to date with the latest industry trends.

We pride ourselves as a pure play agile consulting company which also offers contextual Agile Trainings for our clients to initiate their agile journey. How is this beneficial to you? Our Agile consultants are not academicians, all of them are hands-on agile practitioners who have seen multiple agile transformations at numerous clients, programs, teams. Their approach to a training workshop is dictated by their real world experience of implementing and bringing agility across multiple levels

Agile training for teams helps bring in awareness and understanding of core agile principles, roles and responsibilities of an agile team, ceremonies and what are the intentions behind doing those. With training, the teams are educated with best practices and set expectations as to what it means to work in an agile environment. Agile team training ensures:

• Role clarity with people and avoids confusion within the team members
• Brings in awareness as to what is expected by everyone in what ceremonies
• Helps team members understand the boundaries well 
• Brings in focus in delivery within the team members 
• Promotes shared goals with the team 
• Promotes team members to open up and share opinions and suggestions

As an agile consulting and training company, we don’t treat our Agile training for corporate interventions as a one-off training program. Our consultants regularly help our client teams in resolving their implementation issues and help them design their transformation journeys. Core Agile training is a stepping stone to a full fledged shift in ways of working, culture and mindset of the overall organization.

Agile Training for organization can only be a stepping stone in their Agile transformation journey. It is only when teams internalize the learning and start the implementation process that they will hit real world bottlenecks, search for solutions, discover insights and what works for them and slowly be on the path of realizing the benefits of agile ways of working.

We understand the business context of the client, the current process maturity, team structure etc along with the desired to-be state before planning the agile transformation training plan for our clients. While starting the agile transformation journey, leadership and team training are planned to set the tone of the journey. More specific, role based, framework based, event based, metrics based, tool based and other trainings are planned in the next phase of brining agility in the system,

Introductory Agile training sessions start with educating individuals or teams on why they should explore agile ways of working – what’s in it for them? Share real world success stories and then cover the principles, values, and practices of Agile methodology. Agile is an iterative and collaborative approach that emphasizes adaptability, flexibility, and customer satisfaction. Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, have gained popularity in various industries, including software development, product management and project management.

Agile team development corporate training typically aims to provide participants with a solid understanding of Agile concepts and equip them with the skills necessary to start applying Agile principles in their work.

Below are the most sought after customized agile training programs we deliver for our clients:

• Agile and Scrum Fundamentals
• Agile Induction Programs
• Agile and Kanban Methods
• Agile Project Management Program
• Agile Estimation and Planning
• JIRA Training Workshop

Contextual and role based agile training are the first step in any agile transformation journey. Learning teams and good agile consulting and training services providers should keep following factors in mind while planning agile learning programs for their organizations:

• Focus on basics – A good solid understanding of core agile principles is important before we delve deeper into specific frameworks which essentially address the implementation roadmap to achieve the impact which agile intends to bring
• Create buy-in – A good training program should create a pull towards agile and the excitement to explore agile ways of working for everyone involved. The trainer should focus on ‘why we are doing agile’
• Role based interventions – Learning programs can start with a common understanding but then target specific roles and equip people with competencies and skills to be better in their role. Leadership, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development team and others all have a specific role to play in agile transformation.
• Simulations – Respect the theory, cover it thoroughly and encourage participants to internalize the core philosophy but keep a substantial time for an actual simulation of a particular framework or mix of frameworks to give participants the opportunity to see things in action.
• Allow flexibility – Each organization, each team and each individual is different, do the basic planning on the broad learning methodology and coverage but allow the trainer to be flexible and improvise. Do just enough planning and then inspect and adapt or in other words be agile with your Agile training plan
• Zero hour – Keep some time dedicated to actual project and team based bottlenecks and solution discussion between the participants and the trainer. This will help the participants know more than adding a few more topics in the agile training from a coverage perspective.

Agile Training can only be a stepping stone in your Agile transformation journey. It is only when teams internalize the learning and start the implementation process that they will hit real world bottlenecks, search for solutions, discover insights and what works for them and slowly be on the path of realizing the benefits of agile ways of working.

We have created and delivered impactful agile learning programs for diverse organizations from IT and Non IT backgrounds targeting fresh hires to industry veterans as a leading agile training company. Customized agile corporate training programs are our core strength area..

For organizations starting their agile journey, the learning program should create a buzz within the organization and trigger discussions around the current start of working – the good and the not so good, understand various perspectives and focus on insights to prepare for the next stage of actual implementation – taking up projects and execute them using Agile ways of working. Setting this context and expectation is very important while preparing the agile training plan.

Mature agile organizations should focus on getting the outside-in perspective every once in a while. New industry trends, models and assessing the state of agile adoption frequently will help the teams to constantly move in the right direction. 

Any agile company transformation follows a know-do-be approach, which translates to’ knowing agile’ or building a basic awareness around agile methodology, frameworks, roles, responsibilities, ceremonies etc, followed by ‘doing agile’ or implementing the agile practices – sprinting, working in iterative and incremental way, building a pull based, self organizing work culture, collaborating frequently with the customer and getting the overall experience of working in an agile based environment. This is followed by the ‘being agile’ phase, where the organizational teams have internalized the core agile philosophy and frequently innovate to continuously improve their business processes and metrics.