Agile consultancy

Kick-start the Scrum process

Scrum: A new mindset, and a new process to use. Good training and initial coaching are invaluable at this stage. Xebia's consultants have done many Agile implementations using the Scrum method. They can help your teams and Scrum Masters get up to speed quickly: you will see results within the first two or three (2-4 week) iterations, and immediate productivity is no exception.

Determine the approach

Xebia's consultants can help you to kick-start the Scrum process, coach it to success, and embed it in your organization for full and lasting effect. Together with you, Xebia will determine how to best approach your implementation, depending on factors like organizational structure, culture, urgency and existing experience with Agile. Depending on the existing situation and culture of your organization and needs, Xebia can start bottom-up, top-down or with a combination; Xebia can scale from a single training up to a full corporate adoption program.

Xebia's coaches are not only well-versed in the process and mindset, they will also help kick-start crucial supporting and technical processes, like continuous integration, build and deploy, agile testing and Test-Driven Design.

Coach the Product Owners

Xebia sees it time and time again: when the Scrum teams get up to speed, they start eating into the backlog faster than Product Owners can prepare it. Therefore, Xebia will also help your Product Owners get up to speed, to maximize business value, enable team flow and productivity, and apply the right focus and vision. Xebia's coaches will make sure your Product Owners will have the knowledge, mindset and skills to handle this important role well.

Close the loop: introduce organizational learning

One or more well running teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners are already a boost to your organization, but there is one more step to take in order to unlock the full potential of Agile: use the empirical cycle to drive organizational learning and improvement. This is where Xebia's consultants can go above and beyond the Scrum method and introduce principles from the Lean movement that they can apply and customize to your organization.

The role of middle and upper management

In Xebia's experience, there are three levels that need to be addressed for a fully working Agile implementation: teams (and Scrum Masters), Product Owners (and middle management), and upper management. Organizational improvement needs good management. One of the myths Xebia's encounters frequently is that there is no place for middle and upper management in Agile. This is definitely not true, management has an important role to play, although there may be style differences. Xebia's consultants will coach middle and upper management on how to interface with and support the Scrum process to full effect, and improve the wider organization as a result.

What can Xebia do for you?

Xebia offers in-house and scheduled training, coaching at all levels, and last but not least Xebia supports your Scrum practitioners by actively participating in the Scrum community. Xebia is committed to making your Agile implementation an unrivaled success!