Adaptive Solutions for Challenging Times
The Agile Cooperative has the skills and experience to help your organization navigate through these challenging times. To survive and thrive in this economy you need to find ways to truly stand out from the pack. The Agile Cooperative can help you identify your strengths and assist your team in making them work for your business.
Decrease Time To Market
Whether you are building commercial software, custom solutions or in-house applications getting the project up and running and delivering a Return on Investment (ROI) is even more important today than ever before. The Agile Cooperative's experienced and innovative team of coaches and trainers have experience identifying the waste in your process and helping you adapt Lean, Scrum and Agile practices to enable your team to deliver what's needed as soon as possible.
More Maintainable Software
The key to enterprise sustainability is the ability to quickly add value to the system. The enabling concept is software with uncompromising quality. Few organizations approach this today because they don't have the skills and experience with agile design, architecture, acceptance testing and unit testing. Developers can gain these skills on their own through years of study and experience. The Agile Cooperative Trainers and Coaches can help your team reach this high level of quality, while keeping productivity high.
Better Teams, Happier Team Members
The best teams have fun doing great work. There are a lot of pressures on teams today to perform, generate ROI, answer to several stakeholders and think of everything! This is expected when too few people trying to accomplish more in the shortest time possible. The distribution of teams across time zones and continents is the norm. This is a huge challenge. The situation is not going to improve in the foreseeable future. The Agile Cooperative's Coaches and Trainers are skilled and experienced in helping teams manage the pressures, form real collaborative teams and enjoy their work. This leads to more productivity and less pressure for the organization and the team.
Adopt True Agility
An Agile process must be agile. Sounds funny but what we mean is that an Agile process must change over time because the world will change. True Agility is an empirical process of inspecting and adapting. Most Scrum / Agile training is a two day course that just scratches the surface of the understanding and practice that a team needs to be truly agile. The real ROI in agile transformations is in the whole team learning and adopting the principles that drive Scrum / Agile to be able to assess the ability of the process and the team to deal with the current challenges and adapt as necessary. This is almost impossible for an organization to achieve without outside help, yet the returns can be monumental. The Agile Cooperative can provide you with an Enterprise Coach that will guide your organization from boardroom to mailroom on your path to true Agility.
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A World Class
Agile Training and Coaching Team
Agile For All
Agile for All, founded by Bob Hartman, is a consulting and training firm dedicated to helping companies utilize agile in the most effective manner possible instead of doing pieces and parts without understanding the nuances involved. Agile for All is based in Denver, CO.
Agile Institute
Emphasizing “helping people create quality software, one team at a time,” Agile Institute provides coaching and training in Agile techniques, Object-Oriented design, and sane work environments. Led by Rob Myers. Based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Techniques of Design
Founded by top technical instructor David Bernstein, Techniques of Design helps software developers learn how to design and develop software that is easier to maintain and extend. Based in Bellevue, WA.
Humanizing Work
Founded by Certified Scrum Coach Richard Lawrence, Humanizing Work is a consulting firm dedicated to making software organizations happier and more productive using principles and practices from agile, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints. Based in Denver, CO.
VimStreet
VimStreet is a consulting firm focused on streamlining business processes and delivering technology solutions to improve organizations. Jake Calabrese, a Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP) recipient and founder of VimStreet, believes that every organization needs to answer the question “What does business improvement mean to us?” before making an improvement investment. Based in Denver, CO.
Effective Agile Development
Rod Claar, founder of Effective Agile Development, is a software development coach and instructor with broad experience in Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum and Agile methodologies. He specializes in coordinating large teams and large projects to increase return on investment through Agile principles and practices. Based in Seattle, WA.
You can learn more at the Agile Cooperative website or by contacting us with any questions you may have!
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