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Agile Requirements Training Toronto – User Stories
We recently facilitated our Crafting User Stories workshop to a client who’s teams were already pretty high functioning with Agile and Scrum. The course was a success; we achieved another 80% NPS result. Although most members of the teams were very familiar with User Stories, they felt the course and activities taught them a variety [...]
How do you determine if an Agile Project is successful – Lean Coffee March 8 2013
I was unable to make the Virtual Lean Coffee community meeting to discuss Agile Software Project issues this week, but I did have a chance to connect with the WFS, SDLC Consultant who hosted the meeting. These two topics were prioritized for discussion: How to determine if an Agile software project is successful Should [...]
How We Learn and What it Means for Your Agile Development Transformation
The WFS team believes in the use of the 70/20/10 learning formula when developing our clients software development process improvement solutions. Any time we are talking about software development process improvement we are talking about change, and change requires learning. Teams have to learn new skills and behaviours for the changes to actually occur. Adoption [...]
Agile Training Toronto – We Did It Again!
In this post I am going to share some of the participant feedback we received from the most recent delivery of our Agile SDLC Boot Camp Training Toronto. We have delivered this course to more than 200 participants in the last 9 months so that speaks for itself, but what says even more are the [...]
Agile Principles and Practices Training – With Tennis Balls
October 17th we delivered the Sprint in a Day workshop to the PMI Ottawa Valley Chapter during the 2012 PMI National Capital Project Management Symposium. This was a session customized for the Project Manager audience. We had 44 participants in attendance. We understand the importance in adult learning of making the experience engaging, practical and [...]
Announcing! WFS is a PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.)
WFS is Now a PMI R.E.P. You can now collect 14 PMI PDUs for attending: Agile SDLC Boot Camp (Ottawa) Agile SDLC Boot Camp (Toronto) Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest project management member association, has officially named Web Financial Solutions a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) effective August 1, 2012. R.E.P.s are organizations [...]
Agile Project Management – Not Just for Software Development!
About Agile, Scrum, Iterative Project Management Agile or iterative project management is about setting clearly defined goals. It brings accountability, speed, and quick wins that keep teams motivated. With its iterative delivery, agility, flexibility and collaboration, agile project management creates an enhanced sense of team ownership and business satisfaction. Scrum is a specific flavour of [...]
Agile Scrum Training Toronto With Musical Chairs
Our New Agile Coach & Instructor July 10-11 we had another successful public offering of our Agile SDLC Boot Camp training Toronto! The session was facilitated by a new addition to the WFS team, Doug Stewart. Doug is an agile coach and training facilitator. With early experience in applying Spiral Method and Rapid Prototyping techniques, [...]
Taking It to the Next level – Agile SDLC Boot Camp Training Toronto & PMI – ACP
What’s Next for Our Agile SDLC Training? To capitalize on the success of our Agile SDLC Boot Camp training and as part of our emphasis on program evaluation and continuous improvement, we have been considering next steps to take the course ” to the next level”. Since we are in the business of SDLC process [...]
Agile Training and Coaching Toronto – No Cold Storage Issue Here!
The Challenge of Getting Transfer of Skills on the Job One of the biggest challenges corporate learning practitioners face is the ability to ensure learning transfer occurs, that there is real life implementation of the new skill, and that it’s done consistently and over the long term. Our agile training strategies can include detailed follow-on [...]
