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8 Red Flags To Look Out For When Adopting Agile

“The principles of Agile are fairly simple to understand but much more difficult to apply in practice. The simplicity of Agile principles, however, quickly and unpretentiously lay bare all the shortcomings and inefficiencies. Things that lay deeply hidden in complex realities of traditionally managed organizations“ Slawek Koziol, Senior Consultant, ADAPTOVATE. Our teams across the globe […]

The Inner Story – Previous Roles and What I’ve Learned

The Inner Story 2019 series. What is The Inner Story series? These are the hidden stories from our The Back Story team interviews in 2019. When we went back and looked at all our interviews over the past year we noticed some powerful themes surfacing. So we thought what better way to count down to […]

The Inner Story – Technology and Humanity

The Inner Story – Work Life Balance

The Inner Story 2019 series. What the Inner Story series? These are the hidden stories from our The Back Story team interviews in 2019. When we went back and looked at all our interviews over the past year we noticed some powerful themes surfacing. So we thought what better way to count down to 2020 […]

The Inner Story – What does success mean to you?

The Inner Story – 10 Year Old Self

The Back Story – Kayla Cartwright

Our Monthly interview with one of the ADAPTOVATE team. Each month we ask one of our team from around the world to answer a few questions. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our stories with you. This month we are excited to […]

How important is the agile “test and learn” approach?

(Or as we like to say – Mistakes are not just ok – we insist!) Agile is essentially about developing solutions quickly. Iterating quickly. Adapting. Not quite right? Change. Go Again. Lets test. Adapt. Change. Learn. Improve. You get the idea. That’s cheekily a 101 of Agile, but sometimes things get over-complicated. And what happens […]

Test and Learn within Agile Teams

BONUS SECTION – TEST AND LEARN WITHIN AGILE TEAMS “The “test and learn” approach is embedded in the very heart of Agile ways of working” says Slawek Koziol from our Polish team. For this bonus section, Slawek has kindly offered to talk us through TEST AND LEARN in AGILE in more depth. SHOWCASING Showcasing the […]

AGILE BASICS : THE ROLE OF SCRUM MASTER

Understanding the role of Scrum Master What is the role of Scrum Master? We sat down with our consultants at Adaptovate and asked them to explain the role of the Scrum Master in Agile methodology. While all their answers had their own personal spin – It came down to 5 crucial things. Skip to the […]

Four Unexpected Benefits of Agile

Agile is a powerful mindset. When adopted beyond it’s original purpose (software development), it opens up a world of possibilities. Organisations in any industry, can now lean in to using these new ways of working. We all want greater productivity, happy employees, better quality products and more ROI. It’s worth understanding Agile is not an […]

The Back Story – Michal Bak

How do I know if my organization should embark on Agile transformation?

FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN – BE THE FIRST TO SEE OUR NEW ARTICLES PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK. Recently at Adaptovate HQ we were discussing some of the questions we often get asked around the traps when we reveal who we are and what we do. This question was a big one. Did you know that one […]

We are doing all the Agile CEREMONIES; However, our output has not changed, what is going wrong?

3 IMMEDIATE WAYS TO GET THE TEAM BACK ON TRACK Each ceremony should serve a specific purpose and when done correctly, helps the team to be more collaborative and effective. First up! – This short article is designed to: – Help you understand what may be going wrong with your Agile Ceremonies. What this article […]

The 4 Pillars to Measure Your Agile Transformation is Going In The Right Direction

Do you often wonder if your agile transformation is working? Or indeed how do you actually measure it? What are the metrics you need to zone in on? Did you know – When you do a google search on “measuring your agile transformation” that about 13 million results come up? We could write an entire […]