You want speed, adaptability, resilience.
You invest in Scrum, Agile, Kanban, DevOps.
But then you ignore the hard part:
agency.
Without agency, your teams can’t own outcomes.
Without agency, your Product Owners can’t own value.
Without agency, your Scrum Masters can’t own effectiveness.
Instead, you get cosmetic ceremonies, fake backlogs, and teams going through the motions.
Kanban, as an observability pattern for value delivery, won’t save you.
DevOps, as the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value, won’t save you.
None of these strategies work without the human system having the agency to act.
If you are serious about agility, you have to be serious about enabling people to own what they are accountable for.
Where in your system have you invested in agility but refused to invest in agency?
If you've made it this far, it's worth connecting with our principal consultant and coach, Martin Hinshelwood, for a 30-minute 'ask me anything' call.
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.
Deliotte
Akaditi
Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)
Graham & Brown
Slicedbread
Sage
Big Data for Humans
Boxit Document Solutions
Higher Education Statistics Agency
Philips
Healthgrades
ProgramUtvikling
Ericson
Kongsberg Maritime
MacDonald Humfrey (Automation) Ltd.
Workday
Bistech
Freadom
Ghana Police Service
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Nottingham County Council
Royal Air Force
NIT A/S
ALS Life Sciences
Qualco
Microsoft
Boeing
CR2