Leadership Is System Design, Not Command
Explores why real leadership means designing systems that enable team autonomy, flow, and accountability—rather than relying on command-and-control …
Drive long-term success with Agile Strategy. Align vision, execution, and adaptability to deliver continuous value.
Agile Strategy is a comprehensive approach that aligns an organisation’s vision with its execution and adaptability, ensuring that teams can deliver value consistently and sustainably. It transcends individual practices or frameworks, focusing instead on the systemic integration of agile principles across the organisation. This strategy emphasises the importance of creating an environment where teams can respond to change, innovate continuously, and maintain a clear focus on customer needs.
By fostering a culture of collaboration and transparency, Agile Strategy enables organisations to break down silos and enhance cross-functional teamwork. It encourages the use of metrics and feedback loops to inform decision-making, allowing teams to adjust their approaches based on real-time data. This adaptability is crucial in today’s fast-paced market, where the ability to pivot quickly can determine success.
Moreover, Agile Strategy is not merely about implementing agile practices; it is about embedding agility into the organisational DNA. This long-term perspective ensures that agility is not a one-off initiative but a sustained capability that drives ongoing improvement and value delivery. By prioritising alignment between strategic goals and operational execution, organisations can navigate complexity and uncertainty more effectively, ultimately leading to enhanced customer satisfaction and business resilience.
Explores why real leadership means designing systems that enable team autonomy, flow, and accountability—rather than relying on command-and-control …
Most agile transformations fail by neglecting agency—empowering people and systems to adapt—making true agility possible through autonomy, evidence, …
NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, …
A cross-border product team overcame misalignment and role confusion through immersive mentorship, boosting collaboration, engineering engagement, and …
Lead successful Agile Transformations. Shift mindsets, evolve processes, and enable true organisational agility.
Comprehensive guide to using OKRs for shared focus, measurable outcomes, and strategic learning, including roles, events, best practices, and common …
Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of …
NKD Agility helped the Ghana Police Service drive organisational change using Scrum, enabling continuous improvement, transparency, and local …
Scaling agile beyond teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation and innovation.
Understand and apply Agile Values and Principles based on first principles. Build a foundation for true agility and continuous value delivery
Transform your organisation with the Agile Product Operating Model, blending agile practices and product management to deliver consistent, …
Scaling agility beyond teams to drive organisational responsiveness and adaptability.
Explains why recessions are ideal for organisations to adopt agile, highlighting adaptability, rapid learning, and customer-focused growth in …
Open Space Agile is an approach to organisational agility that applies the principles of Open Space Technology—a self-organising, agenda-free format …
Active senior leadership engagement is essential for successful Agile transformation, enabling systemic change, faster adaptation, and …
Embrace Beta Codex for decentralised, adaptive, and human-centric organisational design. Enable true agility beyond rigid hierarchies.
Mentoring program for product managers and leaders to master Agile, product management, UX, and evidence-based decision-making, with Scrum.org …
Most companies struggle with agility due to rigid structures, outdated processes, and cultural barriers, not technical issues. True agility requires …
Explores how effective capacity planning shifts focus from individual hours to system-level flow, using Lean and Agile principles to improve …
Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy for improving an organisation’s ability to deliver value by making decisions based on evidence, not …
Explores why team autonomy in Scrum must be balanced with alignment to strategic goals, highlighting the role of clear objectives and leadership in …
Master Agile Planning to balance flexibility with predictability. Align teams, optimise delivery, and drive value continuously.
Maximise product value with Agile Product Management. Align strategy, customer needs, and continuous delivery.
Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …
Explains why frameworks alone can't shift team culture, emphasizing clear vision, leadership commitment, and empowering teams to drive meaningful …
Explains why true agility requires end-to-end automation and short feedback loops, not just Agile teams, to maximise value and efficiency for …
Explores how fear hinders true agility in teams, emphasising the need to foster courage and trust for effective Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices and …
Explains why empowering teams to adapt their processes boosts agility, reduces waste, and fosters innovation, using real-world examples and practical …
Drive change with Agile Leadership. Foster adaptability, empower teams, and create a culture of continuous improvement.
Explains why delivering working software to users every iteration is vital in Agile, highlighting feedback, value, and practical steps for continuous …
Explores why true organisational agility depends on empowering teams with agency, not just adopting frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps, to …
Learn how to spot fake Agile practices using six key questions from the US Department of Defense, and discover steps to assess and improve true Agile …
A practical guide to Evidence-Based Management, showing how organisations use experiments, feedback, and key value areas to improve value delivery …
Explores how greed in Agile leads to overwork and reduced value, offering strategies for value-driven delivery, balanced sprints, team trust, and …
Explore and compare Agile frameworks. Understand their principles, applications, and impact on organisational agility and value delivery.
Ensuring every team member understands and connects their daily work to the product vision and strategic goals is key to true Agile alignment, …
Explains how Agile teams can measure and improve Time to Market using key metrics like lead time, cycle time, and time to fix to deliver value to …
Explores how visionary Product Owners at Microsoft drove Agile transformation, shortened feedback cycles, and reshaped product development culture and …
Copying scaled agile frameworks fails because each business needs a tailored, evidence-based approach to agility that fits its unique culture, …
Learn how Agile principles help businesses improve predictability by addressing challenges, optimising systems, aligning goals, and adapting to change …
Learn how to align teams, stakeholders, and processes for effective agile product management by fostering shared goals, clear communication, and …
Explores how agile leadership and evidence-based management training help managers develop servant leadership skills, delegate effectively, and make …
Immersive learning helps aspiring agile leaders overcome cultural barriers by providing time, practical experiments, and peer feedback to drive real …
Explains why agile teams need a clear understanding of product vision and strategic goals to boost alignment, ownership, decision-making, and …
Explores how chaos arises in agile transformations due to unclear vision and poor communication, and offers strategies for restoring alignment, …
Learn how to turn scope creep into an advantage by adopting Agile methods, focusing on value delivery, and adapting to changing requirements in …
Empowering teams to adapt requirements based on user feedback is key to true agility. Learn why backlog updates and team engagement drive better, …
Explains how product goals serve as intermediate strategic goals, guiding agile organisations through uncertainty using experimentation, outcomes, and …
Evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions to help organisations achieve business outcomes, adapt to market changes, and maximise value …
Explores what traditional organisations must change—beyond adopting Agile tools—to achieve true agility, cultural transformation, and sustained …
Explains why Agile is not about speed but about prioritising valuable work, adapting to feedback, and avoiding wasted effort to deliver products that …
Explores how rigid, hierarchical structures hinder organisational agility and offers practical strategies for shifting to decentralised, empowered, …
Adapting based on evidence, not assumptions, through inspection and transparency.
Understand the Agile philosophy and its impact on organisations. Go beyond frameworks to explore Agile as a guiding ethos for value delivery.
Scrum can drive organisational change, not just product features, by using backlogs, teams, and feedback to enable real, evidence-based agility across …
Company as a Product (CaaP) is an organisational strategy that treats the entire company as a continuously evolving product, rather than a static …
Learn about Scrum.org’s new PAL-EBM training, which helps leaders use evidence-based management and custom metrics to align teams with organisational …
Agentic Software Delivery is a strategy for continuously achieving business outcomes through the deliberate integration of autonomous AI agents, human …
A strategic approach to improving the flow of value through an organisation, optimising efficiency, reducing waste, and aligning work with customer …
Agentic Agility is the ability for humans and AI to take intentional, adaptive action within socio-technical environments, enabling continuous …
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.
Hubtel Ghana
Microsoft
Milliman
Slaughter and May
Genus Breeding Ltd
Emerson Process Management
YearUp.org
SuperControl
Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)
Ericson
Graham & Brown
Schlumberger
ALS Life Sciences
Brandes Investment Partners L.P.
Sage
NIT A/S
Healthgrades
Slicedbread
Nottingham County Council
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Royal Air Force
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
Ghana Police Service
Capita Secure Information Solutions Ltd
Trayport
Slicedbread
Brandes Investment Partners L.P.
Bistech
Deliotte