Workshops & Training

Light-weight methods lead to successful adoption.

In this free 30-minute call, we will assess your organization’s needs, environment, institutional practices and program goals on the call.

We’ve trained individual project teams through enterprise program teams in both the public and private sector. Whatever the level of your organization’s maturity - our intent is to customize our workshops to meet your needs.

“ITrellis' guidance on ADO and Agile practices, along with their Portfolio++ software, enabled swift adoption of streamlined planning and execution. They tailored their best practices to our specific needs, resulting in unified working agreements and improved communication, both internal and external.”

— Matthew Schaefer, Vice President, Research and Development, Global Public Safety

Azure DevOps and Portfolio Management: 3-Phase Workshop

Discover how to effective Portfolio and Program Management with our Azure DevOps workshop.

Led by the creators of Portfolio++™, this workshop will teach you how to use Azure DevOps for portfolio management and planning. It will cover organization structure, work definition, portfolio management techniques and tools, and program management. The workshop has hands-on sessions that build on each other and can be scheduled consecutively or individually.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

  • Together, we will discuss the scope and scale of your business, and how to configure it through Azure DevOps Features such as:

    • OKRs, business domains, platforms, and projects (Projects / Areas)

    • Teams (Teams, Permissions)

    • Development processes (Process Templates)

    • Identify work: major initiatives and outcomes (Epics/Features)

    We will also address common “anti-patterns” and issues that hinder effective collaboration among developers, project managers, and contributors.

  • Once work is defined, we will guide you through estimating and planning. We will also discuss team agreements and conventions in Azure DevOps, which promote consistent use of Boards, making work easier to find, and understand. You will move Work-items into iteration paths, based on discussions regarding team velocity and capacity. Focus areas include:

    • Work Estimation (Story Points, Effort)

    • Work Planning (Iteration Path)

    • Velocity and Capacity Planning (Sprint: Taskboard, Backlog, Capacity, Analytics)

  • In the final stage, we will explore best practices for building a DevOps culture that enables Portfolio Management. As you adopt DevOps and Portfolio Management, you may face challenges compared to your current approach to technology solution delivery. A DevOps culture evolves from agreements, effective communication, and routine collaboration points. In addition to Azure DevOps, we will use the Portfolio++ extension and discuss:

    • Teamwork, agreements, and planning (Epic/Feature Timeline)

    • Portfolio Management (Roadmaps, Kanban)

    • Program Increment and Release Management (Dependencies, Milestones)

    • Quality Assurance (Program Status)

    • “Done” and “Good Enough”

Design to Dev-Ready: 4-Day Workshop

Learn light-weight methods to increase ease and throughput of design and hand-off to development.

This workshop shows how the iTrellis Design Practice uses Figma and Azure DevOps, along with light-weight methods to deliver dev-ready design with speed and agility. It will cover ideation, requirements capture, screen design, and decomposing design into backlog items. The workshop has hands-on sessions that build on each other and can be scheduled consecutively or individually.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

    • The "Build" Mindset

    • UI libraries and composable UI agreements

    • Design file management and naming

    • Ideation, spec, and revision handling

    • Components, styles, variables & content

    • Prototyping

    • Operational, functional and performance requirements

    • Azure DevOps Wiki example

    • Data catalog example

    • Requirements change/update management

    • Breaking screen designs into units of role-based work

    • Design file and asset management in backlogs

    • Requirement management in backlogs