In many organizations, teams are at the early stages of adopting a strong agile engineering discipline. In order to meet the standards of quality which agile methods demand, these engineering practices must be learned, adopted and whole-heartedly applied. Many online tutorials, books and open source tools are available to assist with this learning. Coaching ensures that these resources are used effectively by the members of your team and are adapted appropriately within your organization.

Berteig Consulting will provide an experienced agile coach with appropriate technical skills* to work with senior software developers, quality and verification engineers and architects. This coach will help your organization adopt appropriate agile engineering practices including test-driven development, acceptance test-driven development, automated testing, continuous integration, good version control habits, and a common code base. This coach will also aid in the establishment of a cross-team technical support group. The coaching activity will be substantially hands-on with technical practices but will also include working with technical stakeholders and management.

Activities

1. Initial investigation of existing practices and tools
2. Assist with initial technical environment setup and recommendations
3. Work with each team/team-lead combination to mentor and train on the application of agile engineering practices
4. Establishment and coaching of the technical practices group

Outcomes

1. A strong technical practices group which will be able to continue the rollout of critical agile engineering practices.
2. Adoption of agile engineering practices by key technical leaders such as team leads.
3. Substantially improved levels of software quality as demonstrated by a rapidly shrinking list of known defects, and a rapidly increasing level of test coverage.

Size of Effort
One Berteig Consulting Master Coach, in-house Technical Architect(s), Technical Team Leads

Two iterations per team of hands-on mentoring time

Remember, the best return on your investment for increasing productivity is a combination of consulting, training and coaching. To work with us please contact sales@berteigconsulting.com.