Organizational Agility Coaching

Agile principles, as presented through books and other teachings, are easy to understand. Their concepts are quite basic. However, when attempted to put into practice with existing organizational structures and procedures, they are difficult to implement effectively and often times fail. Most organizations that implement agile practices through self-teaching or leadership training only often don’t succeed or don’t realize their true potential. A number of problem areas often encountered in an agile transition include…

• Failing to recognize the discipline required to implement an effective agile process

• Underestimating the psychological impacts and visibility of an organizational transition

• Misinterpretation of the Agile principles and adhering to unimportant implementation details

• Misaligning organizational roles and responsibilities to the agile process

• Becoming too reaction oriented when sprinting without appropriate project planning

• Deteriorating the architecture through misapplied emergent practices and development pace

Trail Ridge Consulting can provide you the Agile leadership and guidance you need to transition through the early pitfalls and struggles you will undoubtedly encounter in your agile adoption. Whole-organization coaching enables your business to take off in the right direction quickly, enabling you to achieve the full benefits of an agile approach. Trail Ridge Consulting believes that the only way to enable agile team discipline, self-organization and empowerment driving higher quality and productivity is to equip the entire team with the tools to succeed. Whether implementing a “pure” agile transition top-down within your organization, or responding to efforts where teams are driving agility, Trail Ridge coaching at the right time and at the right level of the organization will yield a clearly defined result. We can provide customized coaching solutions for your organization in the following areas

Executive Coaching and Mentoring

Oganizational Agility requires empowerment - distribution of responsibility and control. This can be very difficult for some executives and management who are accustomed to working in traditional hierarchical environments.

Trail Ridge Consulting provides coaching to IT executives, management, project managers and office staff so that they work in harmony, each receiving the proper inputs so that the business gets its reports, metrics, and project estimates on time and within budget.

Team Coaching and Facilitation

All people on your team are impacted by any organizational, development, or process change. To succeed they all need coaching support for how their specific roles and responsibilities are impacted. Trail Ridge typically sees issues surface once the new processes are in practice. Coaching during the process is the only effective means to address uncertainty and resistance to truly solidify the team’s understanding and bake it into their routines

Business Coaching and Instruction

One of the most challenging roles we’ve seen within all sized businesses is that of the Product Owner. The Product Owner is the one responsible to provide a single voice for all of the customers or other stakeholders involved in a project. They work with the business to assure requirements are captured and represented in a way that builds value to the business. They work with both IT and business teams to assure an understanding of those requirements and proper implementation.

Our coaching methods ease and improve the communication flow on all levels. This is imperative to product success. Today, even with email, cell phones, and video conferencing there continues to be an overall lack of cooperation and miscommunications which results in failed commitments, under-delivering, and nonproductive work relationships. Trail Ridge Consulting provides the coaching necessary to help rebuild these relationships, teaching the business and IT teams how to understand their often-opposing goals, uniting them to build first-class business value

Note: Trail Ridge Consulting is not in the business of outsourced development - we have no desire to replace your employees. Rather, we partner with you to more effectively and efficiently implement an agile process, delivering more business-targeted solutions and creating a positive business impact with your current organization.

Next Steps

If you would like to learn more about this program or would like to schedule an Organizational Agility Training time with your team, please contact us.