FlowViz
FlowViz is a free data visualisation template for Power BI that allows you to better visualize flow metrics from the data your teams’ Kanban board generates in Jira, Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server, TFS or GitHub Issues. The chart contains industry recognised flow metrics (Throughput, Work In Progress, Cycle Time, Work Item Age) as well as probabilistic forecasting/Monte Carlo Simulation for answering “when will it be done”.
“FlowViz creates such transparency that teams cannot help but have good conversations in a safe manner about where to improve.”
“FlowViz is a game changer for my organisation in helping us to visualize friction and waste in our customer value delivery practices.”
A self-study online course that allows you to go at your own pace with understanding and applying flow metrics. The 70 lesson curriculum includes videos and real time application of learnings, validated by myself as the instructor. No data, downloads or extra tools needed!
“I highly recommend this course for anyone with an interest in visualising and improving flow, especially those who coach teams on improving the way they work. This course strikes the perfect balance between giving information and practical application, and is super easy to follow along. For those new to flow data visualisation and interpretation, this course will be a great way to boost your confidence. For those who are familiar with some of the content in this course, you will likely learn something new. Nicks experience as a practitioner shines through in his interpretation of each chart, and his description of how he would use the insight to coach teams.
A great course!”
Agile
Foundations
In order to succeed with agile ways of working, teams and organisations need to first focus on “being agile” as a foundation for success in “doing agile.” Agile Foundations introduces key concepts such as the Agile Manifesto, Agile Principles, Scrum, Kanban, User Stories and Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Through hands on application in group exercises, attendees get to apply their learnings there and then, culminating in a simulation event which brings all the concepts together.
“Nick was very energetic, enthusiastic and very engaging. He answered all our questions in detail and gave us examples that were easy to relate and understand, keeping us all involved.”
Agile
Leadership
Awareness
“Being Agile” is great, however it will only get you so far if there is not buy-in at the leadership level. This course focuses on introducing key agile concepts to leaders and, more importantly, how they themselves can provide a supporting role in order to enable teams succeed and formulate an Agile organisation. Covering key areas such as intent-based leadership, psychological safety and aligned autonomy, attendees will walk away understanding how they can be a better leader in agile environments and have the right tools and skills that help you and others to succeed.
Scrum
Foundations
As the most popular framework, Scrum is often the first experience people have in moving to agile ways of working. This course provides the foundational knowledge needed to work with Scrum in a highly practical way. Through a combination of instruction and team based exercises, attendees will experience how the Scrum framework improves delivery efforts. Attendees will learn the difference between agile and waterfall, before moving to the Scrum roles, events and artefacts, as well as what this may look like in their current organisation. The day culminates in attendees working together as a team in a series of Sprints to build a product, thereby facing real-life problems.
The Kanban Method is often described as an “alternative path to agility.” This course will teach the basics of Kanban and serves as the entry level and starting point on your agile journey. During this one-day interactive and engaging kanban training course, you will learn the basics of visualizing different types of work and associated risk. You will learn how to design and implement a Team Kanban board. You will also learn how to proceed to the next level with Kanban.