Agile Coaching Services

CIBER has expanded its service offerings into the new and growing world of Agile Software Development through our new Agile Practice. We provide training for Scrum and agile engineering practices as well as coaching for project teams and enterprise level agile adoption. Our staff includes experienced trainers and coaches including two Certified Scrum Coaches, a new designation created by the Scrum Alliance, the leading professional organization in agile project management.

Our agile services include project training, staffing and consulting support similar to CIBER offerings in other IT specialty areas. The Agile Practice provides an additional Agile Coaching service that uses a continuous engagement model characterized by on-going, high-touch partnerships customized for each client. The agile principles of collaboration, feedback, visibility and completion are applied to our coaching relationships to ensure the agile goal of achieving the best result for the client in the most efficient manner. We define specific success criteria for the client and the coach, continuously monitoring progress towards those goals and adapting as circumstances change and new knowledge is gained.

The goal of a coach is to make someone else better without taking any credit. The CIBER Agile Practice seeks to make each client better in their agile implementation, continuing the relationship until the stated goals are met. After the initial engagement, follow-on support is done by the most efficient means available including email and phone support, local CIBER liaisons trained inagile methodology and on-site coaching visits as needed. Your success is our success.

Agile Coaching

So what, exactly, are agile coaching services? The software industry is still learning about the best ways to transition to agility. Agile practitioners have identified a number of successful tools and strategies. We know that each company is unique and the application of agile practices must be tailored accordingly. Our coaching services cover a wide range of activities to help our clients find their own best answers to challenges that may arise.

Team Assessment
Agile teams are self-managing, high-performance units that build software using practices that differ from tradition. We can help assess the skills needed for a particular project when forming a team, evaluate the agile potential of an existing non-agile team and help tune the performance of an established agile team. We can provide recommendations as well as coaching teams to find their own opportunities for improvement. We can also provide training in specific practices that enhance agile development such as Scrum, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration.

Team Start-up
Agile development is simple, but it is not easy.  A new team will have a better chance for early success if it is trained and coached by experienced mentors. The CIBER Agile Practice can provide training customized for the needs of an agile team, small or large.

Enterprise Assessment
Organizational change is a challenging endeavor. Before taking on this challenge, it is crucial to assess the organization’s potential for making the agile transition. By doing so, many of the predictable impediments to success can be identified early and a transition roadmap can be created.

Enterprise Adoption
There are alternative approaches to enterprise agile adoption that should be considered before taking the first big steps. There are known patterns that have known costs and benefits. The single most common recommendation from companies that have made the change is to enlist the help of an experienced guide. We can help you choose the best pattern and coach you through the change process, drawing from both internal and CIBER resources as needed.

Enterprise Coaching
Once an enterprise has begun their agile adoption process and even after they have achieved a sustained agile capability there are likely to be opportunities to increase the resulting benefits. We have the knowledge and experience to help you find these opportunities and implement your own best strategies to further success.

Enterprise Coach Training
Our ultimate goal is to make our clients self-sustaining in their agile practices. There comes a time when you need to have your own internal agile expertise. An internal agile coaching capability can grow organically. We offer ways to speed up the process through mentoring and specialized training in the skills necessary to make a good coach.

CIBER Agile Coaching Practice Staff

Our core coaching staff includes experienced agile coaches with the following qualifications:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Masters, Product Owners and PractitionersExtensive Agile experience with businesses large and small including major health , software and telecommunication companies
• Over 18 years project management and software development expertise

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CIBER’s Agile Practice has deep knowledge and experience to help you with your agile efforts from pilot projects to full-scale, mission-critical global initiatives. We are prepared to help with the challenges of organizational change needed to build a fully agile enterprise. Enterprise agile coaching is just one of our agile services. We can provide training, coaching, planning support and staffing as needed.

Contact us to learn more about our agile services