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Agile Project Management: What's the best approach to sell agile / scrum coaching and training services to companies?
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Tamer Maher, CTO / COO- M&A Business Consultant MBA & PMP answered:

I 've done project management consulting for years, using Scrum , XP , as well as the classic PMI approach, and a blend of waterfall and spiral.

People think that Agile is a silver bullet that will solve all their problems, which is not true.

You need to do your gap analysis and due diligence , and show the company the gaps in their implementations, and the problems they have. If Agile ( and scrum) will be the right fix, you then should show them how it does it. Afterwards, you do basic high level training, coaching, sharing ideas, , then take one team / project as an example,. and do the thorough change management by co-managing the project with their managers ( or scrum master and product owner if they have the right structure) . They will be shadowing you in the beginning for one or two sprints, then you drive and they lead after wards and you keep advising them until things are stable .. But just giving training or theoretical lecture is not supposed to deliver a real result.

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