Line of Sight

Inform your strategic decision-making. Eliminate the fog around
your product development. Leverage the realities your
teams encounter. Teams are vital assets.
3Back and Milwaukee PMI
Milwaukee PMI and 3Back on September 3-4, 2008 will run a Certified ScrumMaster 
 

Professional Growth

Gain the critical insights you need to sharpen your technical skills
in software / product development. Learn ways you can
amplify your effectiveness with agile techniques.
Building Agile Distributed Teams - Now Available

We are now offering coaching and training that summarize our years of experience in making agile distribute teams work for successful product development efforts. 

Agile methodologies warn how critical it is to co-locate teams in the same room, but this is not always practical.  Distributed, distant, or "virtual" teams are a reality of business today.  Offshoring, flex-work schedules, multiple corporate offices, and other forces create pressures to achieve results even when team members are scattered across the globe.

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From the Field: Applied Agile Training Report

3Back LLC,  in conjunction with Critical Point Group (CPG) ran their first ever "Applied Agile" training in Charlotte on Oct 1-3. "It was simply head and shoulders above anything that we have done before. The power and passion that came out of the course was unrivaled in our experience", said trainer Doug Shimp.  The course offered total immersion into techniques for building and sustaining well-formed Agile teams. The immersion was achieved by combining classroom theory, simulation, and a unique opportunity to observe Agile methods practiced by the hyper-productive technical product development team at CPG.

The course was co-taught by Guy Beaver, Director of Software Engineering at Critical Point Group and Douglas Shimp, Partner and Senior Consultant with 3Back.

On day one, the class attendees got to view CPG's team environment and walked through the team work-space. The team space was an open environment with highly visible information posted on the walls.

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