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Advanced Services

Our Advanced Services

Are for those organizations that wish a deep dive into applied agile product development so that it fuels the innovative juices. These types of services are called “advanced” because they require a mutual deep commitment on our part and yours. These engagements are enriching because we get to see your team’s change over time and you get us committed to your deep issues of long term innovative health. We often find that these types of engagements emerge from simply taking a training course or seminar from us.

Seeded Teams

Setting up and configuring healthy functioning teams is hard. Through a combination of our training, coaching and our partnership network we offer individuals who are trained at helping establish "hyperproductive teams".

Solution Provider for ScrumWorks

Managing the work for remote teams is easier with Scrum Works. We are a solution provider for that tool and engage organizations that are setting up this tool for use in agile product development.

Select Projects

For select projects, 3back staff will engage long term and put our “boots on the ground” with your staff. To engage us in this type of work we will need to have preliminary conversation to see if a match of resources, talent and desire exists on both sides.

Agile Assessments

How ready is your team and organizations for adopting agile? Are you making the best use possible of your teams?

Implementing Scrum for Distributed Teams

Setting up and running a "distributed scrum or agile team" requires more than just a phone and email. What is needed is a framework that has examples, norms, tools and behaviors ready for adoption by the team. We offer a training environment that can be quickly tailored  to a particular client's needs. We will work with your team to establish it’s communication norms, a requirements process, techical skills and an understanding of the how to make a distributed effort work. It is no surprise that distributed teams require "human discipline" to make them work, many of the common pitfalls can be avoided and team learning can be accelerated with the right guidence.

Our experience is that team that pursue this approach achieve productivity levels 10x teams that don't. And they can accelerate to those levels within 3 months with initial training and periodic followup guidence. Organizations that have pursued training with us are left with "hyperproductive teams" that are considered valuable assets which are used for their product development objectives.

Please Contact Us for a unique conversation specific to your product needs so that we can help each other understand how this would work for you.

 

Seminars

Seminars Details

We offer seminars and executive briefings on agile software development.
•    Introduction to Scrum
•    Leading the Change to Agile in a Lean Six Sigma Organization
•    Agile Use Cases
•    Introduction to Agile Thinking
•    and more...

These are content filled seminars and are the pedigrees of the same high quality seminars we deliver at conferences nationwide.

Formats
•    Excutive Briefing
•    Lunch&Learns
•    Introductory
•    Key Notes
•    Select User Groups

Delivery Mechanisms

If this is delivered presented to a large audience (50+) then it would be classic presentation with light Q&A encouraged throughout.

 

Our preference is to break this up into small group discussions (5-7 at a table) and then shift back to larger group summary. This format allows participants to personalize the information presented with a stronger feeling of value. One presenter can orchestrate this well only for groups less than 45. 

 

Ideal, would be to add a co-presenter for delivery. Then we would demonstrate agile behaviors through an interactive dialog and we could handle a larger number of people with small group discussion break out  and large group summary (60-70 folks with small group discussions and large group sumamry).

 

Groups larger than 70+ would be done via a lively interactive dialog with the  two presenters and light Q&A from the audience.