Members of TPG may be available to offer mentoring, training, or consultation in the following areas, with the intention of building capacity throughout the organization.

Agile Coaching

• Implementing agile practices with teams
  • Scrum facilitation and coaching related to:
    • Processes
    • Roles:
      • Product Owner
      • ScrumMaster
      • Team Member
  • Other
    • Kanban
    • XP (Extreme Programming)
    • Organic practices in accordance with the agile manifesto and agile principles

• Removing impediments to software development and value delivery

• Agile roadmap development

• Backlog design

• User story creation and refinement
• Backlog and Velocity Estimation

Supporting the delivery of high quality software

• Estimation and Forecasting
• Software development process planning

• Software Launch/Release Management
• Iteration management
• Risk mitigation
• Work tracking and planning
• Coordinating w/ and coaching management
• Coaching on requirements gathering

Process design

• Consulting and support for context-appropriate workflows
• Phabricator
  • Designing workboards and workflows
  • Tricks and tips for using it more effectively
• Goals development, tracking, and planning
  • Quarterly planning support

• Cross-team communication and collaboration
• Strategy development

• Processes for thinking through strategy or elements of strategy

Facilitation

• Facilitation of various types of Agile ceremonies:
  • Planning (e.g. sprint planning and backlog grooming)
  • Retrospectives
  • Standups
  • Estimation
  • Iteration review
• Showcases

• Offsites/team development workshops
  • Offsite/workshop design and facilitation
• General Group facilitation

• Helping groups leverage their skills
• The use of participation formats and tools for strong decisions
• Chartwriting
• Collaborative decision making

Team and Organizational Dynamics

• Assessing and supporting improvement of team dynamics
• Practices for working on/with distributed teams
• Tools, practices, and techniques to increase engagement and participation
  • Eg Effective listening (modeling and teaching)

• Working simultaneously with multiple teams or groups to assess and support resolution of challenges/issues affecting team health and value delivery beyond the scope of any single team/group
• Team health checks

Other

• Teach/train interested individuals about project management

• Using Wikis effectively for team documentation
  • Developing from rough drafts through finished documents
  • Balancing transparency and privacy
  • Recording meeting minutes and decisions

• Coaching on how to set up an Unconference
• Coaching on software engineering practices

• Coaching on code review
• Coaching on pair programming
• Coaching on refactoring
• Coaching on automated testing and Test-driven development