What's your System of Continuous Improvement?

If your company doesn't have one, you can't compete at market speed. To lead in today's market, organizations must be able to continuously improve using processes that eliminate delays and dysfunction at every level.

Your journey of continuous improvement begins with training, but not just any training...There's a difference between what works according to a certification course and what actually works on the street. Learn from the team that has decades of experience designing, implementing, and training value delivery streams for every organization size, from F500's, to government, to private companies.

Your Premiere Resource for Lean/Agile Training and Consulting

The experts at IncreaseSignal provide public and corporate training for all SAFe® certification enablements, as well as customized training for your organization. The IncreaseSignal team also provides:
  • Effective SAFe® quickstart training to get your ARTs going asap.
  • Assessment and gap analysis of your current system of delivery.
  • PI planning services.
  • Definition and full implemention of your organizational transformation using our super simple AGILEV2 techniques.

Your Premiere Resource for Lean/Agile Training and Consulting

The experts at IncreaseSignal provide public and corporate training for all SAFe® certification enablements (RTE is corporate only), as well as custom training content and workshops for your organization. The IncreaseSignal team also provides:
  • Effective SAFe® quickstart training to get your ARTs going asap.
  • Assessment and gap analysis of your current system of delivery.
  • PI planning services.
  • Definition and full implemention of your organizational transformation using our super simple AGILEV2™ techniques.

Services in Detail


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Scaled Agile (SAFe®) Training and Facilitation
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IncreaseSignal offers public and corporate certification training classes for all SAFe® enablements, including:

In addition to offering all SAFe® certification courses, IncreaseSignal also provides the following SAFe® specific services:
  • Effective SAFe® quickstart training to get your ARTs going ASAP. SAFe® Quick Start info sheet
  • Assessment and gap analysis of your current SAFe® framework implementation. Process assessments, value stream analysis, and role interviews are employed to provide a detailed report on the current health of your SAFe® based delivery system, along with improvements identifying a desired future state.
  • Complete facilitation of Program Increment (PI) Planning: We will conduct a retrospective of your current PI Planning state, make suggested improvements, make sure your ARTs meet PI Definition of Ready, and if ready, we will facilitate your complete PI Planning for your selected value streams.

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Assessment and Measurement
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The only way to measure a system is to make it repeatable. For the agile organization to produce meaningful metrics from its System of Delivery, every alignment and autonomy effort identified in the repeating system must contribute to those metrics.

Drawing from extensive experience in gathering system metrics, our team at IncreaseSignal can help you identify inefficiencies, wait states, and team maturity, from Portfolio to Delivery level. Using the metrics data collected, we can then make recommendations on how to get your organization to a high-performing level.



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Systems Execution Services
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IncreaseSignal provides the services necessary for your organization to accelerate to competitive market speeds. Services include:

  • System of Transformation Organization, Metrics and Execution
  • Forming Teams and Transformation Steering Groups
  • Value Stream Identification and Mapping
  • Agile Framework Quickstarts
  • Conducting Program Increment Planning
  • Development of Organization Specific Certifications and Training Materials
  • Strategic Backlog Taxonomy Setup (TFS/ADO, Jira, Rally, VersionOne) from Investment to Portfolio to Product levels
  • Customized Organizational Assessments
  • Implementation of our AGILEV2 Test Driven Transformation framework. Our framework provides the quickest path to agile product delivery - use as a long-lived approach or as a test driven use case for a more complex framework, such as SAFe®.

Our AGILEV2™ Course Outlines

You only get out of your transformation to agile product delivery what you put into it. That effort starts with training. From leadership to prodops, if your organization is not well trained, expect a marginal return from all that money you're pouring into your transformation efforts.

Our course materials have been designed to incorporate best practices we have observed and coached as lean-agile systems consultants for organizations ranging from small product companies to mid-size companies to Fortune 10's. Seminars can be offered on-site with branded, customizable content (suitable for internal certification programs), according to an organization's needs. Also check our calendar for publicly delivered seminars.

Organizational Agility for Executive Leadership
  • Core purpose of adopting a business agility strategy
  • Introduction to Agile Fundamentals
  • What success means for an agile organization
  • What a process workflow is with examples
  • What is “Systems Thinking” and how it can be modeled in your organization
  • What is a “Value Stream,” how to identify it, and why this is important for any organization
  • Understanding your Portfolio Backlog, and how to value it
  • How truly agile organizations can continually adjust their budget
  • Introduction to Agile Organizational Frameworks and Models, including SAFe®, LeadingAgile, Spotify, Scrum@Scale
  • The role of metrics in your organizational “System of Competitiveness”
  • The Real World: Paying down Transformation Debt to maximize your System of Competitiveness
  • ...and more

This one-day seminar entitles each participant a free seat to other core trainings. We strongly encourage leaders to attend these additional seminars to develop a full understanding of business agility, the “system of competitiveness,” and the investment they will be managing in their organization’s Agile Transformation.

Agile Fundamentals and Processes for High Performing Teams
  • We Are Wired for Agility – Interactive Exercise
  • Understanding Agile Values and Goals
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team)
  • Scrum Artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Shippable Product)
  • Sprint Ceremonies and Execution
  • The Importance of Working Agreements
  • Scrum Patterns for Success
  • Understanding the Real Value of Velocity
  • Intro to Kanban Process and When to Use It
  • Kanban Roles (Board Administrator, Product Owner, Team)
  • Why Teams Should Know Both Processes
  • Team and Process Metrics: Know what to measure
  • Intro to Portfolio and Product Backlogs
  • Estimating Stories as a Survival Technique
  • Managing Technical Debt
  • Tricks for Continuous Improvement
  • ...and more

This customizable seminar can be delivered over two half-days or one full day.

The Product Owner Role in High Performing Value Streams
  • Introduction: Goals, Values, Principles and Expectations
  • Your relationship with the business customer
  • Getting to Ready: Planning, Estimating, and Trailblazing
  • How to build out a healthy backlog for a high-performing team
  • Modeling value streams and capturing productive workflows
  • Units of work in your backlog and how your value stream delivers them
  • Tricks to make your backlog tools (Rally, Jira, TFS/ADO) more useful
  • Intro to managing customer intake in your backlog
  • Intro to managing daily business items, expedites, and SLA items in your backlog
  • Prioritization Techniques
  • Understanding When Stories Meet the Definition of Ready
  • Why the PO owns the Definition of Done
  • Team and Process Metrics: Know what to measure
  • Interplay between DoR and DoD
  • Building Product Roadmaps and Release Plans
  • Managing Technical Debt
  • Understanding your team’s release burndown and burnup charts
  • ...and more

This is a half-day, customizable seminar. Agile Fundamentals is a pre-requisite for this course.

Managers as Coaches Training for the High Performing Agile Organization
  • Introduction: Goals, Values, Principles and Expectations
  • Developing the Coaching Roadmap
  • Understanding System of Transformation and System of Delivery
  • Getting to Ready: Planning, Estimating, and Trailblazing
  • Conducting Program Increment Planning and Rolling Wave Planning
  • Continuous Improvement: Measuring & Monitoring, Retro Assessment Toolkit, Warning Signs and Corrections
  • Forming Teams and Team Quick-Starts
  • Developing Coaching Resources and Circles of Excellence for your Organization

This is a half-day, customizable seminar. Agile Fundamentals is a pre-requisite for this course.

Our Clients



The INCREASE SIGNAL Team

  The difference between experience and expertise is successful execution. Your Increase Signal team has successfully executed with a combined experience of 90 years, to companies with a combined total of over a trillion dollars in market cap. If you want the shortest path to an agile organization enjoying faster value delivery and higher ROI, the experts at Increase Signal can show you the way.  

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James Smith
Partner

Over his 30 year career, James has had the opportunity to move from every aspect of software engineering to managing large, multi-million dollarhttps://blinq.me/WwaabD6N5jr2?n=JAMES projects and full organizational buildouts, to Fortune 10 lean-agile consulting. While his primary focus is your organization's system of competitiveness, James still contributes to codebases on a regular basis. As speaker and frequent contributor to social media, James is a thought leader in the lean/agile product space. James is available to speak at meetups and conferences.

jksmith@increasesignal.com

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John Ruzicka
Partner


Mr. Ruzicka has 25 years of professional experience in the Banking, Capital Markets/ FX Trading, Derivative Product Structuring, Investment Banking where he has been a principal at two consulting boutiques leading several lines of business. Additionally, he had several engagements in automotive and retail goods manufacturing. He has an M.S. in Mathematics from The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and B.S. from Villanova University. His technical experience covers most systems platforms from micro to mainframe on both the development and operations sides. Consultancy roles have involved numerous strategy, operations, organization, product delivery and technology engagements focused on delivering high performing Agile teams; enterprise scaling of Agile; making client business impact; and addressing top business challenges/ goals.

jruzicka@increasesignal.com
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Brian Clayton
Partner

Brian is a C-level technology leader that has transformed his career into a passionate agile coach and practitioner. He is a proven change agent for influencing and selling large scale transformations from traditional waterfall to lean scaled agile development methodologies. Brian is a mentor, teacher, and professional lecturer on development practices and technology trends, and is equally skilled and adept at partnering with senior leadership on strategy or coaching agile teams.

bclayton@increasesignal.com


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