Professional Scrum & Agile Consulting Services
Does your team feel stuck? slow? or inefficient?
I’m Daria Bagina and I’m a Professional Scrum Trainer (PSM III) and a certified professional in Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I).
I help organizations like yours achieve the highest level of agility. As your Scrum and Agile consultant you’ll get to:
- Improve your organization’s agility
- Resolve workflow bottlenecks
- Create lasting changes that get more done, with less
Certified Agile & Scrum Training
Improve your team’s agility by using our proven courses designed to maximize results, and minimize inputs.
I’m your personal Agile consultant and a Certified Scrum Trainer, ready to level up your employees skills.
Agile Consulting
Instead of paying for a ghost showing up in your office, you will pay for concrete deliverables.
As your Agile consultant I’ll work with you to define what your concrete deliverables are.
Agile Leadership Consulting
Not sure what the difference is between Agile and Scrum? I will train, coach and mentor your development and leadership teams to make them self-sustainable in 3 to 6 months.
Agile vs Scrum Consulting
Agile Consulting
Agile and Scrum consulting is often used interchangeably. Think of Agile as an umbrella term. Agile consulting is based on a set of methods and practices based on the Agile Manifesto.
It’s considered a more efficient method to developing software than the waterfall method.
Scrum Consulting
Scrum consulting provides a lightweight framework to apply agile principles to your development operations. Scrum focuses on iterative and adaptive solutions to create incremental changes frequently.
In short, Scrum is a customizable way to produce more output, while staying Agile.
Still confused? Book your free consultation with me, Daria, your professional Agile consultant and Scrum Master Trainer.
Customized Consulting for Every Company
Evaluation & Improvement Plan
The first step of the the Agile consulting engagement is to review and analyze the current situation in the organization to create a personalized improvement plan.
We will look at foundational concepts of Agile and how they are integrated in the culture of the team, department, company. To get the full picture we will also review the organization structures and processes.
Agility Assessment (a quantitative analysis of the current state based on key agility factors) with an improvement plan proposal.
The assessment is based on the in-house model developed over years of working with organizations going through Agile consulting transformations.
From one week to two months depending on the availability of interviewees and team meetings as well as the scope of the transformation.
Employees on all levels of the organization based on the scope of the transformation (team, department, product, whole company). Regardless of the scope, leadership and management teams will be included.
To better understand current challenges and find improvement points that will have the biggest impact on the organizational agility in the long run.
Interviews with employees; observation of current meetings, communications and work of the teams; analysis of current processes.
Setting the Stage
The success of the transformation will depend on leadership involvement and organizational alignment. To set the stage we will collaborate on creating a strong communication plan on all levels of the organization, define training needed, and more.
Communication strategy in action. Initial training for everyone involved completed.
From a couple of weeks to a couple of months depending on the training needs. Communication plan is worked on in parallel.
Everyone who will be involved in the transformation on all levels of the organization, including leadership.
To create a momentum and start strong with the Agile initiative.
Create a common vision of Agile and associated benefits to the organization.
A set of working sessions to agree on communication strategy, processes, and tools. Official Scrum training and/or customized training and workshops.
Implementation
Coaching and training as defined in the improvement plan to achieve organizational goals with the help of Agile and Scrum approaches.
As defined in the action plan.
A realistic timeline to start seeing real results is 6 months. Some small improvements can be made in a couple of months, but those generally don’t last.
Everyone who will be involved in the transformation on all levels of the organization, including leadership.
To create self-sustainable processes and teams as well as strong Agile leadership. My personal goal is to be able to leave the organization knowing that you can continue leveraging the benefits of agility on your own.
The term and details of the implementation will depend on the results of the previous steps and will need to be negotiated separately.
Personalized Consulting
It’s not a one-size-fits all Agile transformation journey.
I will work with you to identify the goal of your consulting engagement and propose a plan that fits your needs.
Pay-for-Results not Time
Instead of paying for a ghost showing up in your office, you will pay for concrete deliverables that we have defined together. Only pay for the time that you actually need me to help you with specific challenges and solutions.
Focus on Self-Sustainability
The goal of my Scrum consulting is to help you continue your journey without me.
I will train, coach and mentor your development and leadership teams to make them self-sustainable in 3 to 6 months.
Book a free discovery call to discuss your corporate consulting needs
Let’s discuss how I can help your team and organization. Fill in the form below and I will contact you within 2 business days.
This is for corporate clients ONLY. Please do NOT use this link if you want to discuss personal mentorship or training.
Agile Consultant FAQ’s
An Agile consultant is an expert in technology project management who specializes in Agile methodology, approaches, practices. This is a type of lean development that technology companies use to create, develop, and test software, websites, apps etc. Agile consultants are experts at helping companies improve and execute Agile frameworks to streamline software development.
Why should a company hire an Agile consultant?
Hiring an Agile consultant has proven to be exponentially beneficial to every tech company that has done so. Third party experts with a fresh set of eyes will analyze and offer improvements to your software development process. These gains can result in a snowball effect for cost savings and product improvements.
In the current business environment, as we’ve seen in the past years, there are many factors that affect your success, most of them are unpredictable.
The traditional approaches to managing people and projects no longer work, that is why Agile is becoming more and more relevant for companies in any industry, tech or non-tech.
If you want to keep your competitive advantage and secure long-term success of your company, you need to go through an Agile transformation.
To make this transformation smooth and and effective, you need help of an Agile expert who can walk your through it using best practices, training and support.
What is a corporate Agile transformation?
Agile transformation allows a company to be more flexible, quickly adapt to new business environment and changing customer needs, control risk, deliver value more frequently, innovate, and more. A successful Agile transformation requires a certified Agile coach, resources, time, and commitment to stick it out when things don’t go as planned.
By implementing new ways of working in your company you essentially creating a strong foundation for your company’s future in a rapidly changing business environment.