Workshops - New Synergy Group

Workshop Services from New Synergy Group

New Synergy Group offers workshops to help develop product vision; prepare product, release, sprint plans and backlogs; and help your Scrum team get ready-ready for sprints for client-specific product or solution development. Training services from New Synergy Group usually precede its workshop services

New Synergy Group conducts workshops in these areas:

WS-1: Product Envisioning Workshop
WS-2: Release Planning Workshop
WS-3: Sprint Planning Workshop

WS-1: Product Envisioning Workshop

Goals, Methods and Deliverables for the workshops
Product business case, key market segments and customers, market window of opportunity
Product Vision Box
Elevator Pitch
Trade Journal Reviews
Plan for prototypes and mock-ups (if needed)
Product Roadmap
Identify feature areas and feature themes, and many key features
Preliminary competitive analysis
Determine Kano Model parameters
Constraints on product, especially Release 1

WS-2: Release Planning Workshop

Goals, Methods, Deliverables for the workshops
Decide the Release goals
Develop Release Data Sheet (RDS)
(Re)-inventory of all features, non-functional requirements and all major work items for the next release
Business value (re)-estimation of features and non-functional requirements for the next release
Business and technical risk (re)-estimation of features and non-functional requirements
Coarse-grain re-estimation (feature points) for features for the next release
Coarse-grain re-estimation for all work items other than features in staff-days
Decide the duration of sprint time-box

WS-3: Sprint Planning Workshop

Goals, Methods, Deliverables for the workshops
Inventory of features, non-functional requirements and all major work items
Organize features by feature areas and feature themes
Make sure features and non-functional requirement are understood by Scrum Team(s), Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Key stakeholders in the same way
Business value estimation of features and non-functional requirements
Business and technical risk estimation of features and non-functional requirements
Coarse grain estimation of efforts for features (Planning Poker)
Split large work items for leveling the work
Fine grain estimation of effort for work items by dividing work items into smaller tasks for accurate fine-grain estimation
Prioritize work items for the next sprint based on business value, estimated effort and ROI, risks, and dependencies and conflicts
Identify all information radiators needed and how to implement them
Review and finalize Sprint Ready-Ready and Done-Done checklist templates
Perform fine-grain capacity planning to ensure that the workload can be performed by available resources and also match with their skill sets
Sprint Ready-Ready and Done-Done checklist templates
Sprint backlog with each item assigned its estimates and priority
All items in Sprint backlog are discussed by Team members, and most items are individually assigned, especially those with high priority.
Fill out the details of the Read-Ready checklist template, note any gaps for corrective action before the actual sprint starts.
Fully characterized Sprint backlog with most assignment of individual team members
Filled-out Ready-Ready checklist template and any corrective gaps

Benefits of Workshop Services

Develop client-specific product or solution vision and roadmap, and coach client staff in these areas
Develop backlogs and plans for product, next release and next sprint, and coach client staff in these areas
Develop and help implement agile project templates to work with client-specific agile project management tools, and coach client staff in these areas
Develop and help implement ready-ready and done-done templates, and various information radiators for client-specific agile project, and coach client staff in these areas
Facilitate sprint planning, daily Scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives

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