Team Practices Group/Our skills

Members of TPG may be available to offer 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 software engineering practices


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