ADVANCED TEAM DEVELOPMENT • PRIVATE • ONSITE • LIVE VIRTUAL
Advanced Agile Team Development for Boston Organizations
Step back from day-to-day delivery, assess how Agile is working now, and build a focused improvement plan around your teams, constraints, and organizational goals.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
A facilitated review of how your teams work today
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Delivery: Private onsite or live virtual
Format: Facilitated assessment, team exercises, and action planning
Best for: Teams with prior training and 6+ months of Agile experience
1 or 2 Days
Assessment and action
Experienced Teams
Six months or more
Onsite or Virtual
Flexible delivery
Since 2010
Established in Boston
FROM PRACTICE TO PERFORMANCE
Move Beyond Foundational Agile Training
Real experience reveals where habits, handoffs, roles, and organizational constraints are helping—or quietly limiting—team performance. This course creates space to examine those patterns honestly and constructively.
The result is not a generic maturity score. It is a shared understanding of the current state and a practical improvement agenda shaped around your organization.
01 — REVIEW
Revisit the Essential Practices
Use Agile and Scrum foundations as a practical lens for examining how work is currently planned, delivered, reviewed, and improved.
02 — ASSESS
Assess How the Team Works Today
Identify strengths, recurring gaps, role confusion, unhelpful habits, and organizational conditions affecting performance.
03 — IMPROVE
Prioritize Focused Improvement
Select a manageable set of changes the team can test immediately and develop over time.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For Experienced Teams Ready to Improve How They Work
This course assumes prior Agile or Scrum training and at least six months of practical experience working within an Agile delivery environment.
Experienced Agile Teams
Review how the full team plans, collaborates, delivers, learns, and adapts together.
Developers and Cross-Functional Contributors
Examine team ownership, collaboration, quality, flow, feedback, and sustainable delivery habits.
Scrum Masters and Team Coaches
Strengthen facilitation, impediment removal, team development, and continuous-improvement capability.
Product Owners
Review product direction, backlog quality, prioritization, refinement, feedback, and partnership with the team.
Functional and Team Managers
Understand the support, boundaries, coaching, and organizational alignment teams need from management.
Leaders Supporting Agile Improvement
Identify structural constraints and leadership actions that can enable measurable, sustainable improvement.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
Turn Team Experience Into a Clear Path Forward
01
Create a Shared View of Today
Develop clearer alignment on current strengths, recurring problems, maturity, and the conditions affecting performance.
02
Identify the Patterns That Matter
Distinguish isolated symptoms from the practices, interactions, and organizational conditions producing them.
03
Build a Focused Improvement Agenda
Choose realistic changes, define support needs, and identify what the team will test in upcoming Sprints.
TAILORED ONE- OR TWO-DAY AGENDA
A Structured Review Grounded in Your Team’s Experience
The agenda is tailored to the organization’s experience and priorities. The two-day format provides additional time for assessment, candid discussion, and action planning.
01 — ALIGN AND ASSESS
Team Alignment and Current State
- Team-building and alignment exercise
- Agile maturity assessment and review
- Patterns currently helping or limiting performance
- Shared definition of the desired direction
02 — ACCOUNTABILITIES
Scrum Accountabilities Working Together
- Scrum Master practices and coaching opportunities
- Product Owner practices and backlog leadership
- Developer and cross-functional team practices
- Role interactions, expectations, and shared ownership
03 — TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Team Development and Performance
- Identify the team’s current development level
- Recognize the behaviors that characterize that level
- Define what stronger team performance would look like
- Clarify support needed from leaders and the organization
04 — PRACTICE AND IMPROVE
Scrum Events, Planning, and Improvement
- Sprint Planning, the Sprint, and Daily Scrum
- Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospective
- Roadmaps, releases, Product Backlog, and team execution
- Define practical improvements to test in the next Sprint
BUILT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Make the Review About Your Actual Teams
Advanced team development depends on context. Private delivery creates space for honest discussion of the practices, relationships, systems, and constraints shaping performance today.
Your Current State
Use assessment results and facilitated discussion to establish an evidence-based view of how Agile is working now.
Your Improvement Priorities
Focus attention on the changes most likely to improve collaboration, flow, quality, value, and team effectiveness.
Your Action Plan
Leave with clear experiments, ownership, support needs, and practical next steps for upcoming Sprints.
TAKE THE LEARNING BACK TO WORK
Continue the Improvement Work After the Session
INCLUDED
Assessment and Planning Workbook
Participants receive a working resource for assessment, facilitated discussion, note-taking, improvement priorities, and follow-through after the course.
PRACTICAL OUTCOME
A Shared Improvement Agenda
The team leaves with clearer alignment on its current state, the practices that need attention, and a manageable set of improvements to test and sustain.
2010
ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON
CAPE Project Management, Inc.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Agile Training Grounded in Real Delivery
Boston Agile Training is the Agile training practice of Cape Project Management, Inc. Dan Tousignant brings decades of experience across project management, product delivery, Agile implementation, team development, requirements, engineering practices, and organizational change.
The goal is not to promote a framework for its own sake. It is to help your people make better decisions and improve how work gets delivered.
PRIVATE ONSITE & LIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING
Help Your Agile Teams Reach the Next Level
Tell us where your teams are today, how long they have been practicing Agile, and what you want them to improve.