You know something is keeping your agile organization from successfully reaching its maximum potential, but you don’t know how to figure out what that thing is. Treating the symptoms seems to be adding a lot of band-aids to your process and they don't seem to work anyway. When you try to change many things at once it wastes energy and distracts your people.
Imagine what a difference it would make if you could find the one constraint which is holding your organization back. What if you could focus your energy in the one place which would make the most difference? You can! Our Constraints Assessment Workshop does just that. The workshop is based on The Thinking Process promoted by renowned Theory of Constraints expert Eli Goldratt.
Level:
Any - Beginner through Advanced
Length:
1 day.
Intended Audience:
Struggling agile teams and organizations
Pre-requisites
None except for having problems and wanting to get better!
Objectives:
In an intense full-day workshop, we facilitate a workshop designed to help you:
Clearly articulate the goal and critical success factors of your system (organization)
Work from the problems you see to the root causes of those problems
Develop an action plan to effectively attack those root causes
Description:
This is an incredibly intense 1-day facilitated workshop designed to expose problems and identify their root causes. The workshop helps build team morale while exposing the problems. It also points out how a very small number of root causes can cause a cascade effect creating many more downstream problems.
Clients who have experienced the workshop find they go from an overwhelming list of a dozen or more problems down to just one or two root causes. Not only do they feel better about identifying the root causes, they actually leave with a logically deduced action plan to address those root causes.
Recently the workshop was facilitated with a client who had 23 different identified issues in their agile process. After going through the process of the workshop they identified two primary root causes which could lead to solving nearly all of their problems. The big surprise to them was neither root cause was where they had been expending effort in trying to solve their problems prior to the workshop. This single example shows the power of the workshop in its simplest form: the logical relationships between problems and causes are probed without emotion or preconceived notions in order to reach the best possible solutions.
To schedule an Agile Constraints Assessment Workshop or just talk about the process and expected results call 425-738-0586 or email
info@effectiveagiledev.com .