Agile Kickoff: Set Up Your Team's Board and Working Agreement
A half-day expert workshop where a team starting or resetting its way of working chooses between Scrum and Kanban, maps its own workflow, and leaves with its board and working agreement set up.
Agile Ways of Working teaches Scrum and Kanban in practice and ends with a board and a working agreement. This workshop sets them up for a real team in a half-day: the team maps how work actually flows, picks the method that fits, and leaves with a board it will use on Monday and an agreement it wrote itself. The facilitator is a practitioner who coaches teams through this every month.
It works for a team adopting agile for the first time and for one whose way of working has drifted. Hybrid and remote norms, where people work and how they reach each other, are part of the agreement, so the team leaves with one document rather than two.
Live, with a practitioner facilitator, for one group of up to 20
Exercises adapted to your own cases in a scoping call
An impact report within a week
A certificate is issued to participants who attended and completed the exercise, and recorded on the TechClass platform.
Agenda
Block 1
Opening
Goals, your group's context, and what participants will leave with.
15 min
Block 2
Learn
Scrum and Kanban as they are actually run, and which fits this team's work: the events, the roles, the limits, and what each one costs.
50 min
Block 3
Practice
Mapping the team's own workflow, and choosing its events, its limits and its channels on real work in flight.
60 min
Block 4
Apply
Setting up the board and writing the working agreement: who does what, when the team meets, and how it decides.
45 min
Block 5
Close
Summary, commitments and feedback.
15 min
3.5 hours including two breaks: a morning from 9:00 to 12:30 or an afternoon from 13:00 to 16:30, in your time zone. Practice and Apply take more than half of the working time. You leave with the team's board and working agreement.
Applies this Skills course
The workshop is the live, hands-on application of this course. In a blended program the course is the pre-work; the workshop is where the group puts it to work on its own cases.
A team starting, or resetting, its way of working: inside or outside IT
Marketing, HR, operations and product teams
A cohort in a continuous learning program, on a case team
Fee and registration
Quote on request
Price For up to 20 participants, with a fee for each extra participant up to 30. In person adds travel at cost. There are no design fees: adapting the exercises to your cases is part of every workshop.
Per workshop, quoted on inquiry
Pre-work In a blended program the Skills course is the pre-work and its licenses are quoted with the workshop. A standalone workshop uses a short Essentials course, included with every license.
The Skills course, or an Essentials course
Group
Up to 20 per facilitator; 21 to 30 with a second facilitator
How to book
01
Get in touch
Tell us the workshop, the group and whether you want it online or on site. We come back with a proposal: the date and slot, the delivery, the facilitator and the price.
02
Scoping call
Three to four weeks before the day, a 30-minute call about your goals, the group and its own cases. The facilitator adapts the exercises to them.
03
Pre-work and the half-day
Participants are enrolled on TechClass and take the pre-work one to two weeks before. Then the workshop itself: 3.5 hours, a morning or an afternoon in your time zone.
04
Certificates and the impact report
Within a week: certificates for participants who attended and completed the exercise, feedback collected, and a short report of attendance, feedback, what was produced and the agreed next step.
Workshops serve companies and education organizations alike. A cohort in a continuous learning program books the same workshop; the institution stays responsible for its program and any credit.
Agile Kickoff: Set Up Your Team's Board and Working Agreement FAQ
Yes. The scoping call before the day brings your own cases into the exercises, and the facilitator adapts them. The topic and the length stay the same. A topic outside the catalog is scoped and quoted separately.
In a blended program, yes: the course is the pre-work and the workshop applies it. For a standalone workshop, participants take a short Essentials course on the same subject one to two weeks before; Essentials courses are included with every TechClass license.
Up to 20 participants with one facilitator, and 21 to 30 with a second facilitator. Above 30 it is no longer a workshop; ask us about a program instead.
Either. Live online for teams anywhere in Europe and the USA, with a producer running the breakout rooms and the tech. In person at your site, in Finland and the Helsinki region first and elsewhere in Europe on request, with travel at cost.
English or Finnish, as you choose. The agenda is the same in both.
Yes. Participants who attended and completed the exercise receive a certificate, recorded on the TechClass platform alongside their other training.
Workshops are priced per workshop for up to 20 participants, with a fee for each extra participant up to 30, and quoted on inquiry. In person adds travel at cost. There are no design fees.
Within a week, an impact report: attendance, feedback, what participants produced, and the agreed next step. It reports only what was measured.