Lean for Agile Coaches
The Lean for Agile coaches workshop helps coaches and business leaders turn Lean concepts into everyday practice. Over three days, you work on real cases, apply SIPOC, value stream mapping and DMAIC, and leave with solutions, measures, and a clear plan to move your teams forward.
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Lean for Agile Coaches Workshop – Build Stronger Improvement Skills in 3 Days
If you are a coach or business leader, you probably carry both expectations and pressure: deliver better results, reduce waste, support your teams, and still keep everything moving. Tools and boards help to a point, yet without a structured way to use Lean, they often turn into visual noise.
This workshop gives you a simple, repeatable path to guide improvement efforts. You learn to read the flow of work, ask better questions, and help teams design and test changes that stick. Instead of one more course that fills your head and your notebook, this one sends you back to work with a structured case, a set of measures, and a clear plan.
As you read the sections below, keep one or two of your current challenges in mind. Imagine walking into that situation with a sharper picture of the process, better root-cause thinking, and a plan your team can start on next week.
Who Will Gain Most From This Workshop
The Lean for Agile Coaches course speaks directly to:
- Coaches who support squads, teams, or value streams
- Managers in charge of service delivery, operations, or product outcomes
- Internal champions who support Lean and Agile practices across departments
- Business leaders who sponsor improvement and want more visible progress
If you have ever had to explain why an improvement project stalled, or why the same issues keep reappearing in meetings, this workshop is relevant. It gives you tools and language to guide teams toward solutions that address root causes rather than surface-level fixes.
The format suits both experienced coaches and leaders who are newer to Lean but have some exposure to its basics. You will not sit through long lectures; you will spend most of your time working on your own scenarios with guidance and feedback.
What You Will Walk Away With
By the end of the Lean for Agile coaches workshop, you can expect to:
- Describe Lean principles and relate them to daily decisions in your teams
- Use SIPOC and value stream mapping to show where work starts, how it moves, and where it gets stuck
- Apply the DMAIC model and a set of problem-solving tools to find root causes and shape better options
- Spot early changes that build trust and show that improvement is possible without a massive project
- Sketch a target operating model that makes roles, steps, and handovers clearer
- Create a basic set of measures to see if your changes work and where to adjust
- Plan regular routines that keep improvement alive, even when urgent work hits
These outcomes are not just theory. They are tied to the cases you bring into the room and the exercises you complete across the three days.
How the Workshop Feels in the Room
This is a working session, not a slide-heavy seminar. From the first day, you will use real examples from your own context and test methods with guidance from the trainer.
Course approach
Across the three days, you will experience:
- Short content blocks to refresh Lean, DMAIC, Kanban, and problem-solving tools
- Group exercises and simulations built around your cases and your organization’s reality
- Coaching and feedback cycles where you share progress, get input, and refine your ideas
The pace is active but structured, with time to pause and reflect on what each method adds to your case.
This Lean for Agile Coaches workshop is a strong fit if:
- You guide teams or functions and want improvement efforts that stick
- You want a structured way to use Lean tools in coaching sessions and meetings
- You need to show tangible progress on issues that keep returning
If you are ready to turn Lean concepts into everyday coaching routines and real improvements, this is a practical next step.
Take the next step in building your coaching and improvement skills.
Sign up for the next Lean for Agile coaches workshop or contact MindMagine to bring this course in-house for your teams.
View Training Schedules below or Contact Us to check upcoming dates, group options, and customization for your organization.
Duration
3-days
Course Delivery
Classroom or Virtual Classroom
What’s included
Lean for Agile Coaches Workshop Book (eBook or printed) containing all of the presentation materials and course notes.
Prerequisites
To get the most from the course, you should already have:
- Some experience with Lean concepts and Kanban
- A basic grasp of design thinking ideas
- Involvement in improvement activities, team reviews, or similar work
The content moves quickly from refreshers into practice, so a foundation in Lean language and core tools helps you dive into the cases faster.
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Concepts Covered
Review on Lean Principles and Techniques
- Alignment with organization principles
- Review of Lean Activities:
- SIPOC
- Value Stream Mapping
Data collection & analysis - The DMAIC Model
- Review on Kaizen
- Problem Solving methods
- Target Operating Model
- Organizational case discussions
- Organizational case assignment generation
- Improvement Action Planning
Progress Analysis and Coaching
- Progress Analysis
- Understanding the direction and progress of the group
- Analyzing the challenges of the group
- Coaching the group on Lean methods and how it is applied
- Solutioning Prototyping
- Shortlist of the solutioning brainstorm session
- Case coaching
- Guidance, coaching for the group
- Giving examples and hand-holding approaches
- Follow up activities
- Determining the approach, tools and activities that needs to be executed
- Target Operating Model
- Finalizing the desired solution based on practicality and effects to the organization
- Performance metric development
- Creating a performance measurement approach for the desired solution and determine data sources.
- Selling and influencing
- Ability to sell the solution into the organization
- Completion activities
- Listing of activities that needs to be completed before commencing the solution
- Progress Analysis
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