Specialized support
Even if your journey to delivering better results is largely “do it yourself,” several points along the way may call for expertise that you don’t have in-house.
You may be looking for someone who is easy to work with, impartial, and attuned to your specific circumstances. If that sounds appealing to you, keep reading…
Get your senior leadership on board
Developing Agility is the deepest change your organization will ever undergo. Unfortunately, executives are often presented with biased, partial, or false information about it. If your senior leaders want candid, realistic, and unbiased responses to their questions and concerns, look no further.
In this 2-3 hour session, we’ll establish a shared, accurate understanding of the Agile paradigm; express the needs, expectations, pitfalls, and implications of creating organizational agility; and discuss workable strategies and tactics for creating it sustainably.
Important: We are not affiliated with any large consulting group or certification scheme, so when we say unbiased, we mean unbiased.
If you’re looking to change the executive conversation, let’s talk!
Design a custom Agile implementation
Would you like to be Agile with your next major undertaking, but the situation is complicated? Using a popular framework or cobbling together “best practices” may not be a good move. Instead, let us help you customize Agile to your context, from first principles.
We’ll work with the key players on values alignment, constraints, and assumptions. We’ll guide the design of a suitable workflow, effective team structure, and promising practices. And we’ll help you facilitate a successful kick-off to start the new way of working with high energy and clarity.
If you’d like the way of working to be truly fit for purpose, let’s talk!
Case study
Custom Agile implementation
Check out this case study to see how we helped a bank’s technology group successfully deliver a challenging 8-figure program by customizing an Agile approach.
Determine your best next step with Agile
If you’d like to take your Agile implementation to the next level or to get it unstuck, we’ll help you figure out the best way forward. Spoiler alert: it’s almost never a matter of process, tools, or adherence to a framework.
We’ll start by assessing the entire value delivery system, examining such aspects as culture, leadership approaches, management practices, team dynamics and ways of working, interactions across roles and silos, technical agility, and psychological safety. Instead of looking for compliance with specific processes – which a tool could tell you – we analyze how your human system makes Agile-minded choices in its unique context, and uncover the root causes of the gaps.
We only need a few days for this and we don’t tie up anyone’s time in long meetings. We’ll recommend a practical roadmap and high-value actions toward your desired goal, identify challenges, and discuss mitigation strategies. In the following weeks, we’ll continue the conversations to help you prepare your plan of action. Note: this is “Map the Journey”, step one in our Right-Fit Agile approach.
“We asked Gil to help us figure out how our talented, passionate team could become a cohesive unit. He only spent two days with us, but people were blown away by how spot-on his observations were, and how he made people very comfortable discussing even the most uncomfortable topics. Using his findings and recommendations, we are now working collaboratively on putting together a roadmap to becoming a better, more effective Agile team. This engagement was well worth the investment!”
– Andrei Cornienco, VP Software Engineering & Infrastructure, Pethealth
If you’re ready to level up your way of working, let’s talk!
Facilitate a large collaborative event
Agile teams and organizations benefit from collaboration, but not only on day-to-day work. Bring your people’s wisdom to bear at critical junctures, such as drawing lessons from recent events, roadmapping a new initiative, or leveling up value delivery.
The key here is to hold events that get everyone – not only management – to do the thinking, collaborating, and deciding. Such events are rarely longer than a day. While they involve a large number of people, they are well worth the investment if done effectively and efficiently: beyond achieving their official outcome, they send the message that collaboration and ownership are real.
We will collaborate with you on planning a successful session: purpose, agenda, invitation, deliverables, process, etc. And if you prefer, we will facilitate it for you (such events must be led by experienced facilitators).
“As the organizer of a three-day event, one of the best decisions I made was to have Gil facilitate a substantial portion of it and coach me through the rest of it. Thank you for helping us build the foundation for reaching our next level, and making it easier to continue this interaction throughout the year even if it is over Zoom.”
– Rod Recker, Product Management and Engineering Director, Twinmotion (an Epic company)
If you’re looking to increase the ROI of your event, let’s talk!
Start Agile in a non-software team
Are you leading a non-software group and finding the promise of Agile appealing? Not sure what’s a good way to adopt it?
While Agile is applicable and beneficial to many pursuits outside of software development/IT, its implementation there may look quite different. In fact, popular mechanics (such as sprints and user stories) and frameworks (such as Scrum) may not be suitable for you. You need an implementation that works in your specific context.
For a small investment of time, we’ll take your team through the right conversations, guide and advise at critical junctures, and help you design a practical, effective and sustainable implementation.
We have used our approach for successful implementation in various departments, such as: marketing, finance, talent acquisition, architectural design, plastics R&D, and TV show selection and development.
Interested to learn how our approach maximizes your success with Agile? Let’s talk.
Get advice for tough decisions
Every now and then, you or your leadership team have tough decisions to make: how to deal with a significant effort, how to approach a major change, how to solve a difficult team problem. Would you like Gil Broza to be your trusted advisor and help you put your best foot forward?
This service maximizes your outcomes in two ways: by providing advice when you need it (instead of in prescheduled meetings) and by basing it on a long-term relationship with Gil. You may use this service on your own or together with colleagues. Depending on your preference in each session, Gil may provide expert advice, coach you, or act as a sounding board. Privacy and confidentiality are guaranteed.
Interested in an introductory chat and discussing options? Write to Gil.