Enterprise Agile Transformation:
Working with you to plan a custom Agile transformation strategy that best serves every level of your organization or helping turn around an ongoing transition that’s not delivering the results you need. We begin with an enterprise assessment of your value streams, teams, and structure, then shape a partnership-based approach that preserves what’s working and adapts what isn’t.
SureStart: Agile Team Startup Facilitation:
It can take months for a new Agile team to learn the self-organization and continual improvement patterns that lead to high performance. Our experienced Agile trainers can accelerate the successful formation of new teams through our “SureStart” methodology, which includes certified training for teams in cohorts, embedded support through the team’s first iteration, and continued role-specific mentorship for your Product Owners and ScrumMasters for up to six additional sprints.
Agile Leadership Training:
Business Agility is rated significantly higher when company leaders guide the journey, meaning you need to change the culture of leadership to ensure teams reach their highest potential. Agile teams are best supported by servant leadership that maintains focus on value delivery while creating an environment for experimentation and learning. Our experienced trainers help leaders at levels from the C-suite to those directly managing teams adopt a mindset that nurtures a culture of Agility.
Embedded Team Support:
Dedicated full-time attention from an embedded expert can help teams struggling with their transition to a particular framework or that are hamstrung by waterfall-type assumptions in planning, delivery, or performance management. Our trainers partner with your teams to establish a strategy with visible goals and exit criteria, then collaborate with them over successive sprints to overcome obstacles and lay the groundwork for self-improvement.
Agile Assessment:
Is your business well-served by your Agile transition? It can be hard to tell, particularly for enterprises with long time cycles between the actions of teams and business outcomes. Our experienced experts can assess individual teams, and the enterprise as a whole, with an impartial evaluation of current Agile practices, policies, and tools to give you objective insight into the strengths and challenges of your approach.
Agile Scaling Support:
It’s one thing to establish a single high performing Agile team. Larger efforts that involve many teams coordinating often require implementing a formalized Agile scaling framework such as LeSS or SAFe. Our experts have led and improved scaling practices in many complex environments, and can leverage that experience to tailor a scaling approach that puts you on a path to deliver enterprise value and decrease the coupling of teams over time so that you can nimbly respond to new challenges.
Technical DevOps Expertise:
Our technical staff has the subject matter expertise to help a team optimize and accelerate software development, testing, and delivery practices. Our approach begins with a DevOps Retrospective that maps out the complete value stream of application delivery from development to production, then works with your teams to identify incremental changes to deploy the tooling and practices that make their flow faster and safer.
Public Sector Agility Experts:
Agile transitions in the public sector bring a host of additional challenges not often seen in the private sector. No one has a greater depth of experience leading, training, and improving government Agility than the experts at NextUp. In addition to team and leadership training, we can also advise programs on acquisition approaches to effectively buy Agile services and provide an objective assessment of vendors throughout delivery to ensure you’re getting suitable value for taxpayer funds.
Individual Executive Training with Leadership Circle 360°:
Great leaders need an array of relational, creative, and introspective competencies to build an environment where people and organizations achieve amazing things. Even when leaders have those tools, their ability to enact positive change can be significantly limited by reactive behavioral patterns that limit our ability to perform and inspire others. NextUp’s executive trainers can help you grow as an individual leader through structured, one-on-one training that begins with a Leadership Circle 360 Assessment, then collaboratively defines a path of personal growth to increase your creative competencies and decrease your reactive tendencies.
