Building the First Enterprise-Wide Agile Onboarding Framework
Designed once. Delivered to every team, the same way.
The organization's first standardized Agile onboarding framework: a 4-day workshop format I co-facilitated as Agile coach, rolled out to 11 teams in a single year.
No standardized way existed to bring a team onto Agile. Every team that adopted it built its own version of ceremonies, roles, and cadence, with no shared starting point across the organization.
I was asked to build the organization's first enterprise-wide Agile onboarding framework: a structure any team could walk into on day one and come out the other side running Agile the same way every other team did.
Eleven different teams learning eleven different versions of Agile is not scale, it is noise. A shared onboarding framework meant a program run across multiple teams could compare velocity, ceremonies, and outcomes apples to apples.
This wasn't a rollout of an existing playbook. It was designing the playbook itself, then proving it worked on eleven different teams.
- No existing template to build from, this was the organization's first framework of its kind
- Co-facilitating live workshops while coaching teams through applying the material in real time, not handing off a deck and leaving
- Fitting one consistent 4-day format to teams with different domains, sizes, and starting points, without diluting it into something too generic to be useful
Designed a 4-day workshop format from scratch, then spent a year in the room running it, team by team.
The actual workshop agenda and daily session agendas, from the original Figma files. Drop the images in and these placeholders come out.
This became the organization's standard onboarding path, not a one-time initiative. It was the first framework of its kind here, and having eleven teams run through the same structure meant, for the first time, a consistent starting point for what "running Agile" actually looked like across the organization.