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Ways of working and agile

Ways of working and agile

Embrace organisational agility and drive long-term transformation.

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Why you'd want this

Give your shift to agile the best chance by getting every dimension of your organisation fine-tuned, efficient, cost-effective and customer-centric. If you're just starting out on your journey to become a hybrid culture, we can provide strategic advisory support to help you shape your executive team's Statement of Intent, and determine what shifting your culture would mean for your organisation's vision and strategy.

Already made the shift and need a strategy? We can help design a roadmap that fits your target future state and create a hybrid operating model that connects people, strategy, and productivity. We can even help you with change planning that focuses on culture, so you can scale your efforts with confidence. If you're making moves to be a hybrid culture and want to scale, we'll help with the (re)design of operations and HR processes so they fit hybrid working.

Where we support

  • Strategic advisory: We'll help you figure out the ways of working that suit you, design your organisation and structure your teams. We'll be your expert guide and coach every step of the way.
  • Extra people power: Need more hands on deck? We'll augment your team with our expert staff who will provide the guidance, coaching, and leadership you need to succeed.
  • Customised learning: We'll design fun and engaging learning activities and content that fit your organisation's unique needs. We'll teach you what you need to know about agile principles, new roles, daily practice, tools, and technology.
  • Lean Portfolio Management: Are you struggling to align your agile execution to your strategy? We're experts at helping you to visualise your portfolios of work and align it to your strategy.
  • Agile Coach Development Academy: We'll help you define the role, activities, skills, and capabilities of an agile coach. We'll run a recruitment and selection process, and then provide a development academy to build internal capability in readiness for deployment to squads.
  • Agile Coach On Demand: Need some extra support? We'll deploy an internal coach to support 2-3 squads or teams in building their understanding of agile WOW. They'll be there to guide, coach, and cheer you on.
  • Agile launch or flip day events: Let's celebrate! We'll design and facilitate whole-organisation events to mark the change from waterfall to agile WOW. We'll create organisational buy-in, engagement and excitement about the change.

How it will benefit you

  • Capability uplift: Agile mindsets, skills and team practices that hold after the coaching stops.
  • Measured maturity: A maturity measure you can track, so improvement is visible rather than asserted.
  • Productivity and adaptability: More gets delivered, and change is absorbed rather than resisted.
  • Engagement and retention: Better collaboration, communication, wellbeing and engagement, which shows up in who stays.
  • Cost efficiency and resilience: Less waste now, and an organisation better able to take the next shock.

Who to talk to at Five

Nick Mackeson-Smith

Nick Mackeson-Smith

Chief Curiosity Officer, Founder and Director

+64 (0) 21 933 397
Biunca Hooper

Biunca Hooper

Transformation and Agility Coach

+64 (0) 21 866 557
Lucy Ratcliffe

Lucy Ratcliffe

Design & Culture Alchemist

+64 (0) 21 566 739
Dan Cooper

Dan Cooper

Digital Transformation Specialist

+64 27 223 2320
Simon Collinson

Simon Collinson

AI Change Consultant

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