Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Agile Coach's Course on Scaling Team Velocity When Release Cadence Slips

Turn chaotic sprint data into a reliable velocity engine that fuels predictable releases and keeps stakeholders confident.

Stop rebuilding velocity spreadsheets every sprint while release dates keep slipping.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Every sprint you spend hours reconciling disparate board snapshots, chasing missing story points, and fielding complaints from product owners about missed commitments. The tools you use, Jira filters, spreadsheets, ad-hoc dashboards, never speak to each other, so each retrospective ends with vague action items that evaporate before the next planning meeting. When the quarterly release window closes, senior leadership questions the team's capacity, and you risk being blamed for delivery gaps.

Your current coaching cadence is fragmented: you run workshops, but there is no single source of truth for velocity trends, impediment logs, or capacity forecasts. The lack of a repeatable process forces you to reinvent the wheel for each release, consuming valuable coaching bandwidth and eroding trust with the engineering managers who need concrete data to justify staffing decisions.

What you walk away with

Create a unified velocity dashboard that updates automatically each sprint.
Standardize capacity planning worksheets that align with stakeholder expectations.
Develop a repeatable impediment tracking process that surfaces risks two sprints ahead.
Produce a quarterly release health pack that convinces leadership of realistic delivery dates.
Implement a coaching playbook that embeds continuous improvement into the sprint cycle.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Velocity Data Consolidation

Over 70% of agile teams waste time stitching board exports together. In the middle of your sprint planning meeting, you realize the velocity chart is missing two critical squads. This module walks through extracting raw sprint data, normalizing it, and feeding it into a single spreadsheet model. Output: a consolidated velocity register ready for immediate analysis.

Module 2. Capacity Forecast Blueprint

When the product owner asks for capacity forecasts during the sprint review, you scramble to estimate hours from memory. By mapping team member availability, historic velocity, and upcoming holidays, you build a capacity forecast worksheet that predicts realistic sprint load. What you ship from this module: a capacity forecast template populated for the next three sprints.

Module 3. Impediment Radar

A recurring question from engineering leads is ‘What blockers will hit us next sprint?’ This module introduces a visual impediment radar that aggregates impediment logs from all squads into a single heat map. The artefact: an impediment radar chart that highlights high-risk items for the upcoming sprint.

Module 4. Release Health Pack

By module end a release health pack sits in your drive, containing the velocity trend, capacity forecast, and impediment radar for the upcoming release. The pack is formatted for executive review and ready to be presented at the quarterly steering committee. This ensures leadership sees a single source of truth and can set realistic expectations.

Module 5. Stakeholder Alignment Matrix

A senior manager asks, ‘How do we know the metrics align with business goals?’ This module creates a matrix that links sprint outcomes to strategic objectives, clarifying which velocity changes matter most. Output: a stakeholder alignment matrix that you can attach to any sprint review deck.

Module 6. Continuous Improvement Loop

Fastest path from a messy retrospective note set to a concrete improvement backlog is to codify actions into a structured sheet. You will design a loop that captures retrospective insights, prioritizes them, and assigns owners with due dates. What you ship from this module: a continuous improvement backlog ready for the next sprint retro.

Module 7. Executive Reporting Dashboard

The CFO wants a single slide that shows sprint health at a glance. This module builds an executive dashboard that pulls the velocity register, capacity forecast, and impediment radar into a concise visual. Output: an executive reporting dashboard that updates automatically each sprint.

Module 8. Coaching Playbook Integration

A stakeholder POV from the Head of Engineering is ‘We need coaching that actually changes behavior, not theory.’ This module embeds the velocity and capacity tools into a coaching playbook that guides facilitators on how to use data during ceremonies. The deliverable is a coaching playbook with step-by-step data-driven facilitation guides.

Module 9. Risk Mitigation Checklist

During the sprint kickoff you hear a question, ‘What if the key story is delayed?’ This module provides a risk mitigation checklist that ties velocity variance to contingency planning. Output: a risk mitigation checklist that teams can apply at the start of each sprint.

Module 10. Metrics Governance Framework

Tension between the need for detailed metrics and the desire to keep reporting lightweight often stalls adoption. This module defines a governance framework that sets metric ownership, refresh cadence, and escalation paths. What you ship from this module: a metrics governance charter that clarifies roles and responsibilities.

Module 11. Automated Data Refresh Scripts

A question that the Scrum Master asks herself is ‘How can I avoid manual copy-paste each sprint?’ This module introduces lightweight scripts that pull data from the agile tool API into the velocity register automatically. Output: a set of ready-to-run data refresh scripts that keep the register current without manual effort.

Module 12. Quarterly Review Pack

When the quarterly review board convenes, you need a polished pack that tells the story of delivery performance. This module compiles all artefacts, velocity trends, capacity forecasts, impediment radar, and improvement backlog, into a single quarterly review pack. Output: a polished quarterly review pack ready for the next board meeting.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers Velocity Data Consolidation , exactly the chaos you face when board exports don’t align during sprint planning.

Module 4 covers Release Health Pack , the exact deliverable you need for the quarterly steering committee when leadership asks for a single source of truth.

Module 7 covers Executive Reporting Dashboard , precisely the one-slide view the CFO demands at each finance review.

What you get with this course

A consolidated velocity register with sample data for three squads.
A capacity forecast template pre-populated with holiday calendars.
An impediment radar chart ready to import sprint logs.
A release health pack PowerPoint slide deck.
A stakeholder alignment matrix worksheet.
A continuous improvement backlog sheet.
An executive reporting dashboard mock-up.
A coaching playbook with data-driven facilitation scripts.
A risk mitigation checklist.
A metrics governance charter.
A set of automated data refresh scripts.
A quarterly review pack template.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, velocity register template pre-populated for your environment, capacity forecast sheet ready for the next sprint.

Week 1: first version of the release health pack assembled and shared with the product owner for feedback.

Month 1: recurring sprint cadence runs with automated data refresh, and the executive dashboard is live for the quarterly review.

Before and after

Before

Right now you juggle multiple Excel files, screenshots of board snapshots, and handwritten notes. Evidence lives in scattered emails, and the sprint review slides are assembled ad-hoc, causing delays and missed insights. When auditors ask for consistent velocity evidence, the team scrambles, and leadership questions the reliability of the agile process.

After

After the course you have a single velocity register, a live capacity forecast, and an impediment radar that update automatically each sprint. Quarterly release health packs are generated with a click, and you can present a polished executive dashboard that proves delivery predictability, freeing you to focus on coaching rather than data stitching.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this gap, the next quarterly release will close without a clean velocity report, forcing the leadership team to question the agile transformation. The audit committee will request a remediation plan, and your coaching credibility may be at stake.

Who it is for

A lead agile coach who runs weekly sprint ceremonies, mentors scrum masters, and translates team metrics into executive reports. They juggle hands-on facilitation with strategic improvement initiatives, and need a practical method to unify velocity data across multiple squads without building custom tooling from scratch.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to Scrum terminology.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week, saving an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant on this scope typically costs $3,500, a generic agile certification runs $1,200, and building the same artefacts yourself takes 60+ hours. At $199 you get a proven method, ready-to-use templates, and a hand-crafted playbook, far better value than any of those options.

FAQ

Do I need deep data-engineering skills to use the templates?

No, the worksheets are built with simple formulas and the scripts run with a single click.

Can the approach work with tools other than Jira?

Yes, the data import steps accept CSV exports from any agile tracking system.

How long will it take to see measurable improvement?

Most coaches report visible velocity consistency within two sprint cycles after applying the method.

Is there ongoing support after I finish the course?

You get access to a community forum for peer advice, but no live consulting is included.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.