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The Back Story – Slawek Koziol

Each month we interview one of our ADAPTOVATE team from around the world. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our employee’s own story with you. This month we interview our senior consultant in Warsaw, Slawek Koziol. Slawek is based in Poland, however […]

Will MOMENTUM be the word of 2020?

For our final blog of the year, we asked our team what they believe 2020 holds for our industry. By ‘our industry’ – we mean organization’s that are considering using specific methodology to adopt New Ways of Working in order to create transformational effective change. We also asked our team to suggest where ADAPTOVATE could […]

The Back Story – Tan Tiong Yeow

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 interview our senior […]

The Inner Story – Technology and Humanity

The Inner Story 2019 series. What’s 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 – Previous Roles and What I’ve Learned

Change is constant.

Change is constant. It’s always there. Bill Gates said “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus, said – “the only constant in life is change”. […]

8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019

8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019 IN AGILE TRANSFORMATION DOWNLOAD OUR FREE PRINTOUT FOR YOUR TEAM WALL – TO START YOUR YEAR OFF RIGHT. With 2019 almost over, we wanted to look at themes we’ve seen emerging over the past year. Specifically when organisations are adopting New Ways of Working. We’ve seen Transformational Change […]

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 – Work Life Balance

The Inner Story – 10 Year Old Self

The Back Story – Kayla Cartwright

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 […]