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Manage disruption and change with Agile PMO

Change constantly surrounds us. This video and more is available on our YouTube Channel. To adapt, it is undeniable that organisations must undergo constant transformation. However, they find themselves hindered by increased barriers, particularly in the face of the new remote working environment. These include: Speed of change Organisations must rapidly pivot and reprioritise projects as business-critical objectives change and communicate and execute them effectively even […]

Using agile to navigate from crisis to sustained success

Authored by Evan Jago, Principal, ADAPTOVATE COVID-19 has disrupted business to its core. As the situation has rapidly evolved, it has created an unpredictable and volatile environment for business to operate in. Companies are facing unprecedented challenges having to adapt business models, product and service offerings, and, ways of working quickly in order to survive. In a high-stakes, fluid and dynamic situation, how do you chart a course to turnaround a business or project? Traditional approaches of command and control, […]

How OKRs (Objective and Key Results) have helped in driving alignment in a not-for-profit organisation.

In our latest podcast episode of The Backlog we speak with Jo McConnell. Jo is the CEO of GOMO Foundation, providing education to girls in Africa. What’s that got to do with AGILE you ask? Well ADAPTOVATE recently had the priveledge to assist GOMO (through our Pledge 1% commitment) to establish and focus in on […]

The Back Story – Krzysztof Mysior

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 sat down and […]

We have piloted with Agile teams and clearly experienced the benefits of Agile ways of working. It’s time to go full Agile. But where to start?

Authored by Tan Tiong Yeow, Senior Consultant, ADAPTOVATE Singapore. Journey with Agile thus far Organizations have been jumping on the Agile bandwagon and standing up Agile teams to pilot and experiment with Agile ways of working. These teams are usually disparate across the organization and some Agile teams are even solely contained within the technology […]

Emerging out of COVID-19 and lockdown – What will recovery mean to our employees.

And why it’s important for companies to understand what their employee’s expectations will be. In a live video interview last week, the reclusive photographer and writer Sally Mann was asked “how’s life these days?”. She tells Sarah Meister, the photography curator at The Museum of Modern Art this: “It’s pretty much the […]

Very smart people can make very dumb mistakes.

Six traits we’ve identified in companies making the right decision during this time. In this editorial we want to explore the certain traits that are exposing organisations ability to cope with COVID-19 or not. Ask yourself – Which side of history do you want yourself, your team, your company to be on? Before we start […]

Guide to video etiquette. Nine key tips.

WHAT THE ADAPTOVATE GLOBAL TEAM HAVE LEARNED WORKING FROM HOME We are now post Easter. The novelty of working from home is not only wearing off for many, it’s hitting some barriers. Remote working fatigue is setting in. Are we burnt out already? Complacency about social distancing is also setting in. (and that could be […]

What would you do differently weeks ago, if you knew then what you know now?

Hindsight – We all have it now. We’ve seen the memes – that March felt like a year. It’s unbelievable how much has happened in the last few weeks. And what is more incredible is the ability for an entire planet worth of humans, to change behaviour. The above chart is sobering. While it’s […]

The Back Story – Sonya Doshi

INTERVIEW: SEAN WOON – April 2020

In 2020 we are excited to have recently seen our sister business TRIBE launch. Sean Woon is the Managing Director of TRIBE and we sat down with him this week to learn more. Hi Sean and thanks for your time. We are excited to talk with you, at a time that is so […]

12 Ways To Motivate Remote Working Teams

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REMOTE WORKSHOPS – It can be done. Here’s how.

Note: we are not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned below. This is just how we have learned from experience the tools we know and can recommend. There are a lot more out there, so you can take our suggestions or find what works for you. REMOTE LEARNING & WORKSHOPS. – DOING AGILE VS […]

5 important takeaways from Agile transformations outside of software development

Article written by our European office of ADAPTOVATE By Maja Kurzyna For the past 20 years, Agile has transformed profoundly the culture of IT and software development teams. Today, as many companies are completing their digital transformations, Agile practices are spreading internally. Online or mobile sales channels are not a shiny innovation anymore. They […]

How can my team celebrate mistakes (we are big on test and learn, but what happens when we genuinely fail?)

Over 10 different ideas to help your team learn from failure. Firstly, let’s look at why it’s important to celebrate mistakes – it is becoming more accepted that a growth mindset at work leads to better results. We take on feedback and challenge ourselves to always do better. But of course this implies that […]

The Back Story – Qiu Lu

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7 things your organization can do now to accelerate gender equality in the work place.

Start with this question. – DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE YOUR WORKPLACE GENDER EQUALITY? You would have had to be living under a rock not to have International Women’s Day stories coming at you for the past week. (ADAPTOVATE included.) That’s a good thing. While ADAPTOVATE support equality every day, we all need a push […]

Six tips to keep your remote working teams engaged and motivated during Coronavirus

Due to CO-VID19 there is an increase in remote working. Here we provide our six recommendations for managing remote working teams in this uncertain time: Align your remote working teams on a goal to give purpose The goal is shared, even if the location is not. When worldwide events are uncertain, simple, clearly […]

What do these women have in common? Diana Nyad, JK Rowling, Katherine Johnson, Yalda Hakim, Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman

To celebrate INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY on March 8, it’s important to think about the women who have inspired us along the way, and share that inspiration. The trailblazers who have paved the way towards improved equality for women around the world. #eachforequal So we asked some of our ADAPTOVATE team this question: If you could […]

Creative ways to run a retrospective differently

WHAT IS A RETROSPECTIVE? First up – for those for whom Agile Methodology is a somewhat new way of working – a retrospective is one of the ceremonies in Agile. (watch our team discussing ceremonies here – 3 min watch). Retrospectives in Agile methodology are done regularly and kept short. For example they can happen […]

AGILE EXPLAINED: The Role of the STANDUP

Editors note on Stand-ups in Agile Methodology during Covid-19 : The below article about Stand-ups still makes sense (even more!) in our current climate of working remotely. If you are reading this article in the future and have returned to work, it all still applies. However if you are currently working from home, or you […]

8 THEMES TO SUSTAIN THE CHANGE IN NEW WAYS OF WORKING

SUSTAIN THE CHANGE, FOR ONGOING SUCCESS. How do we see business sustaining ‘new ways of working’ over the longer term? Success. Sustained. Two simple words that appear on every email signature of every employee at ADAPTOVATE. It’s our tag line, which is at the absolute core to everything we do and say. Simply put, how […]

INTERVIEW: D. Ray Freeman – February 2020

We are really happy this year to have welcomed to our US head office, D. Ray Freeman as our Project Lead. Ray has worked in the Agile industry for nearly 20 years with clients from Fortune 100 to start-ups. In celebration of black history month, we sat down with Ray to get to know him […]

Boosting Business Value through Organisational Transformation: four key principles.

ADAPTOVATE helps organizations through their transformational change. The business agility required in 2020 to become more productive requires New Ways of Working with specialised training and coaching. Leaders will often want to know, up front, how we will do it. Cut to the chase, so to speak. And while it’s not a cookie cutter approach, […]

The Back Story – Fiona Royall

It’s our monthly interview with 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 Melbourne, Fiona Royall. 1. First up – how […]

Why would organizations turn to New Ways of Working in 2020?

Let’s do this excercise. We want to give you five key points why organisations should turn to New Ways of Working in 2020. To help you identify if your organisation is ready – do you finish the sentence: “I want my company to have…” with any of the following…? TALENT EXCELLENCE THE SPEED OF THE […]

This Consulting Life. Six Ways to Re-energise for the New Year.

In our new occasional blog series “THIS CONSULTING LIFE”, we sit down with some of the team across the world at ADAPTOVATE. We ask them some behind the scenes techniques and tips on their consulting practices. If you are a consultant – these articles may help re-affirm or help kickstart new ways of thinking. […]

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 […]