Agile Coaching Roadmap
A management tool for Agile Coaches to handle stakeholder expectations. Organisations beginning an Agile transformation often demand comprehensive planning. This roadmap provides a low-maintenance plan that gives stakeholders visibility of activities without over-committing to a fixed sequence.
Organisations cannot transform instantaneously. Each has a distinct change velocity, and exceeding that pace creates complications. The roadmap helps teams be honest about where they are and realistic about what comes next.
How to use the roadmap
Review the practices listed below and categorise each one using the five columns. Work through this with your team or in a facilitated workshop session.
You can add practices beyond those listed — the list is a starting point, not a constraint.
Facilitation steps
Use these steps when running the roadmap exercise as a group workshop.
Brief attendees
Explain the roadmap format and the five categories. Clarify that the goal is honest assessment, not aspiration.
Populate the roadmap
Groups work through the practice list, placing each into a category. Additional practices can be added. All suggestions are valid.
So what?
Each group writes the expected benefits and behavioural changes from their suggested practices, then presents key findings to the wider group.
The practice list
Use these practices as input for your roadmap. Categorise each as Established, Next, Future, Explore, or Ignore.
Delivery Practices
- Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
- Visualise Blockers
- WIP/Done columns
- Upstream Kanban
- Adaptive Planning
- Small Batch Size
- 3 Amigos / Story Kick-offs
- Story Point Estimation
- NoEstimates
- Cycle time metrics
- Sprint planning
- Just-in-time planning
- Scrum Daily Standups
- Kanban Daily Standups
- Replenishment Meeting
- Measure Outcomes
- Measure Output
- Retrospectives
- Showcases / Show & Tell
- Kanban Classes of Service
- Cycle time distribution
- Cycle time scatter plot
- Team Throughput
- Escaped Defects Metric
- Defect Root Cause Analysis
Technical Practices
- Version Control For All Production Artifacts
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment
- Build Monitor
- Peer Review of Production Changes
- Proactive Monitoring of Production Environment
- Automated Acceptance Testing
- Automated Deployment
- Pipelines for infrastructure as code
- Unit Testing
- TDD (Test Driven Development)
- BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
- Coding Standards
- Collective Code Ownership
- Refactoring
- Emergent Design
- Pair Programming
- Mob Programming / Mobbing
- Self-service infrastructure configuration
- Automated infrastructure provisioning
- Containerisation
- Microservices
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Integrated Change Management
- Polyglot Engineering
- Data Discoverability
- Dependency drift fitness function
Product Practices
- A/B Split testing
- Web Analytics
- Data Analysis
- Product Vision
- Product Roadmap
- Balanced Scorecard
- Product Canvas
- Service Canvas
- User Personas
- Fit for Purpose
- Prioritisation by Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
- Prioritisation by Effort / Value matrix
- Prioritisation by Kanban ESP Risk Framework
- Cost of Delay
- Story Mapping
- Impact Mapping
- Vertical story slicing
- Prototyping
- Gorilla Testing
- Product Design
- Service Design
- User Testing
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