Impacting Organizational Agility
Imagine your business and IT teams being so motivated, empowered, disciplined, efficient and collaborative that your results exceed your expectations …

Imagine your ability to nimbly and swiftly respond to market changes, proactively leading your business forward with innovative solutions.

 
What is Organizational Agility?
Trail Ridge Organizational Agility Services™ are your path to organizational improvement. They begin with with short facilitated activities that provide a core and foundation for you and your people to make your organization more flexible, to heal its problems, and to enhance its growth.

Organizational Agility Services are a collection of tools and techniques your organization can use to increase its effectiveness and health. Its techniques come from the people whose work has been acknowledged as one of the major foundations of the Agile movement, of Scrum, and of Extreme Programming (XP).

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The Leadership Agility 360(TM)

Leadership agility is now considered by many to be the “master competency” needed to make wise decisions and take effective action amid complex and rapidly changing conditions. The Leadership Agility 360, developed in partnership with ChangeWise and Cambria Consulting, is the first extensively researched online feedback tool to assess a manager’s level of leadership agility.

Based on the award-winning book, Leadership Agility, by ChangeWise principals Bill Joiner and Steven Josephs, the Leadership Agility 360 evaluates a manager’s level of agility in leading organizational change, improving team performance, and engaging in productive business conversations. Their in-depth research has shown that, in today’s turbulent economy, increased agility is the key to sustained effectiveness in all three of these key leadership arenas.

Pete Behrens is a leadership development coach using The Leadership Agility 360 as the preferred tool to provide our clients multi-rater feedback and structure follow-on coaching. Download a PDF Brochure.

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Whitepaper: User Story Primer
Check out the new White Paper: A User Story Primer - a collaboration with Dean Leffingwell, author of Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. This whitepaper is an excerpt from his upcoming book, Agile Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise, due out in 2010.

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Death by Scrum Meeting

Play March 2009 @ Scrum Gathering, May 2009 @ Agile Denver, August 2009 @ Agile 2009

Pete is running a new seminar series on Scrum exploring often challenging aspects of applying Scrum. Meetings are typically cited as one of the most wasteful activities in a business day - yet Scrum demands more meetings more frequently.

Teams are finding themselves micro-managed with little time left to get "real" work done.

This session provides ScrumMasters four key techniques for leading focused, timeboxed, effective and highly-participatory Scrum meetings which drive a collaborative and a self-organizing culture.

 
Agile Leadership
Pete Behrens

Trail Ridge Consulting is the leading agile business performance guide — positively impacting enterprise organizational agility by aligning proven organizational structures with our enterprise-enabled agile best practices.

Our enterprise IT and product development experience is your key differentiator to a successful agile transition.

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Follow Pete on Twitter

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Hope to see you there.

 
Scrum Team Workshop

These interactive team-based workshops provide a context rich experience in learning and applying Scrum.

Team is one of the most important fundamental principles in Scrum and often the one most overlooked and misapplied by organizations. Scrum was created because Teams solve problems better than individuals. But building effective teams (Scrum or not) is hard.

This workshop guides teams through experiencing Scrum together as a team with their "real-world" project data. Teams leaving the workshop take with them working release plan and sprint plan data to put into practice the very next day.

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Total Attorneys Culture Club

August 2009, Ed Scanlan, CEO of Total Attorneys

What is culture? One of our clients - Total Attorneys CEO
Ed Scanlan doesn't bother defining it. And yet, he calls
culture "the bedrock" of his business. Whatever it is, it's
working; seven years after its founding, Total Attorneys
will crack $30 million in revenue. Take a close look at the
video - see Scrum as a core element of his high-performing
team culture.

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