Agile Digital Strategy

I guide businesses in creating agility strategies that generate disruptive business impact. This is done through strategy workshops with active participation of sponsor(s), change agents and leadership teams. The result is an agility strategy map in which goals, success metrics and enablers are established.

Agile capabilities link the strategic priorities with the operating model — structure, processes, governance, technology. These capabilities also drive the culture type and talents that are needed for realization.

This is agileXL’s framework for driving the agile journey. Changes are prioritized and rolled out iteratively in organization structure, leadership, culture, practices, technology, and environment. Learning and coaching facilitates the changes, experiments validate undiscovered territory. This systematic approach has generated amazing outcomes for clients.

I drive transformation activities as a value stream, with epics, stories and a backlog. In other words, we adopt agile working from the start.

Concretely, I use:

• Themes to reflect the business objectives that we want to target.

• Transformation Epics that each focus on a specific change area.

• Transformation Stories—specific changes—that we can accomplish within a limited time span.

• Story Mapping and OKRs to strategise a roadmap with priorities.

• Kanban Backlog to plan, share and track activities.

The use of scaling frameworks

Creating enterprise agility is more than a scaling exercise. However, some constructs, organization patterns, or practices from known agile-at-scale frameworks may be applied when they are a good fit. Examples could include squads as the minimal viable self-organizing organization unit that can deliver value to a customer. Or PI Planning for programs with a large number of highly dependent teams. When I use these elements, it’s still never in a copy-and-paste style.

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Process Methods

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can help as a starting state for large organizations. It helps to align portfolio, value streams, programs and teams. As a Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) I can help you with both certification training, initial setup and adaptation.

Spotify-based Agile Model for Culture & Organization

Spotify has used an innovative approach to organization design and culture shaping. However, for it to be effective, I customize this model for each case. For client, I help create tribes and squads with an organic approach to alignment, autonomy and intrinsic motivation.

Hybrid Model for customized OPERATING MODEL

With many of my clients, we design and implement custom-fit hybrid models that directly targets the strategy-derived agile capabilities. We use proven practices from experience or design new practices with validation via a pilot.

Cultural transformation starts with leadership engagement. I equip your leadership team with the knowledge and skills to initiate these changes. With train-the-trainer and coach-the-coach sessions I get your change agents and internal coaches ready for guiding both culture, organization, method and tools changes.

Engagement promise

working principles that guarantee maximum ROI on your agile investment