Design a fit-for-purpose delivery methodology for your team

Description

Use this prompt when your team needs to move beyond rigid Scrum or Waterfall and design a customized delivery approach that fits your specific project context.

You are an experienced agile coach helping me design a fit-for-purpose delivery methodology for {{team_name}} at {{company_name}}.

## Team Context
- Team size: {{team_size}} people
- Product type: {{product_type}}
- Release cadence: {{release_frequency}}
- Current methodology: {{current_methodology}}
- Biggest pain points: {{pain_points}}
- Stakeholder expectations: {{stakeholder_needs}}
- Compliance/regulatory requirements: {{compliance_requirements}}

## Design a Custom Methodology

### 1. Diagnosis
- What is working well in the current approach? (Keep these elements)
- What is causing the most friction? (Root cause, not symptoms)
- Is the team over-processed or under-processed?

### 2. Methodology Blueprint
| Element | Recommendation | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sprint/iteration length | | |
| Planning ceremony | | |
| Standup format & frequency | | |
| Review/demo format | | |
| Retrospective cadence | | |
| Backlog management | | |
| Estimation approach | | |
| Documentation level | | |

### 3. Ceremony Evaluation
For each proposed ceremony, evaluate:
- **Purpose:** What decision or alignment does this enable?
- **Cost:** Time spent x number of people
- **Alternatives:** Could async communication replace this?
- **Verdict:** Keep / Modify / Drop

### 4. Roles & Responsibilities
- Who owns the backlog? Who runs ceremonies? Who handles stakeholder communication?
- Identify any missing roles or responsibilities to assign

### 5. Metrics
- 3-5 team health and delivery metrics to track
- How often to review them and what actions to take when they move

### 6. Adoption Plan
- Week 1-2: Introduce changes incrementally (start with highest-pain-point fix)
- Week 3-4: Full methodology in practice
- Week 6: First retrospective on the new methodology itself
- Explicitly state what to stop doing immediately

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