Agile Coaching
Practical agile delivery for federal and commercial teams. Sprint coaching, DevOps pipeline design, and scaled frameworks that work inside real organizations.
Agile That Actually Ships
Most teams don't need a certification class. They need someone who sits in their standups, watches how work actually flows, and helps them fix the bottlenecks. That's what we do.
We've coached federal teams through their first sprints and helped mature teams scale across multiple release trains. The approach is always the same: start with where you are, change one thing at a time, and measure whether it helped.
Signs you need coaching:
- Sprints that never finish on time
- Standups that last 45 minutes and solve nothing
- Backlogs with 500+ items nobody has triaged
- Teams doing "agile" but still delivering waterfall
- Manual deployments that take a full day
- Leadership asking for "velocity" without understanding it
Service Packages
Agile Transformation
8-16 weeksFull transition from waterfall or ad-hoc delivery to a working agile practice. We set up the ceremonies, tools, and team habits, then coach through the first 3-4 sprints until the team is self-sustaining.
- Current state assessment and readiness evaluation
- Role definition (PO, scrum master, team)
- Backlog creation and story writing workshops
- Sprint planning, review, and retrospective facilitation
- Jira board and workflow setup
- Metrics dashboard (velocity, cycle time, burndown)
Sprint Coaching
Ongoing, monthlyEmbedded coaching for teams that have the basics but need help improving. We attend ceremonies, observe team dynamics, and provide weekly feedback on what's working and what isn't.
- Attend standups, planning, reviews, and retros
- 1-on-1 coaching for scrum masters and product owners
- Backlog refinement and estimation facilitation
- Impediment identification and resolution
- Monthly health report for leadership
Scaled Agile (SAFe)
12-24 weeksFor organizations with multiple teams that need to coordinate releases. We implement the SAFe framework at the team, program, and portfolio levels without the overhead that makes people hate SAFe.
- Agile Release Train (ART) launch
- PI planning facilitation
- Cross-team dependency management
- Portfolio kanban and lean budgeting
- Tooling setup (Jira Align or Jira Advanced Roadmaps)
DevOps Pipeline Design
4-8 weeksAutomated CI/CD pipelines that take code from commit to production without manual gates. We design the pipeline, set up the tooling, and train your team to maintain it.
- Pipeline architecture and tool selection
- Build, test, and deploy automation
- Infrastructure as code templates
- Security scanning integration (SAST/DAST)
- Monitoring and alerting setup
Why Bring In a Consulting Team
Outside eyes see what inside eyes can't
Your team is too close to their own process to see what's slowing them down. An outside coach spots the patterns: the meetings that could be async, the handoffs that create queues, the estimations that are always wrong for the same reason.
Skip the 18-month learning curve
Teams that adopt agile without coaching typically take 12-18 months to reach a steady cadence. With coaching, you get there in 2-3 sprints because someone is actively correcting course instead of letting bad habits calcify.
Federal context matters
Agile in government is different. You have ATOs, contracting officers, and compliance requirements that generic agile training doesn't address. We've run agile programs inside federal agencies and know how to make it work within those constraints.
Get Started
Tell us about your team and where you are in your agile journey.