We’ve all attended (or led!) ineffective meetings where the purpose is vague or absent. The meeting owner often jumps straight into the detail, leaving the...
Ekipa Consultancy in Malaysia co-hosted a webinar with Amiruddin Yusoff, Paul Hutton and myself Gretel Darby in April this year on the topic of “improving...
Lately, I see some companies move to true ‘agile enterprises’. I’ve always been a firm believer of empowerment and self management. To become a true...
Organisational transformation is much like preparing for a triathlon—it’s demanding but deeply rewarding. Just as triathletes must adapt to different stages of their race, businesses...
In a world where change is constant, and the pace of innovation is ever-accelerating, the success of organisations hinges on their ability to adapt. With...
An organisation’s success is very rarely due to individual brilliance. As Michael Jordan once said, “Talent wins you games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”...
Why would it be a good idea for me and my organisation to engage an agile coach? That’s a perfectly valid question. When googling the...
Coaching, across all industries, stands as one of the most intensive and labour-consuming activities, demanding a diverse set of exceptional social, interpersonal, and communication skills....
In leadership, there’s a delicate balance that’s often hard to strike. Leaders across industries and sectors want to create environments that resonate with safety and...
Generally, an agile coach is someone who enables organisations to embrace agile as a culture shift. But what do agile coaches actually do within an...
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash One of the ideals in an Agile organisation is self-organisation. We want to empower people to make their own...
Samuel Loh an Agile Coach at Ekipa Consultancy shares his best insight on the What’s in it for me (WIIFM) when an Agile Transformation is...
We’ve all attended (or led!) ineffective meetings where the purpose is vague or absent. The meeting owner often jumps straight into the detail, leaving the...
OKRs are an effective collaborative goal-setting methodology and used by some of the world’s leading organisations to set and enact their strategies. In this article,...
The boss says we are going Agile…. It’s my job to … make us go Agile. Transform like? How do we get started? ….with adopting...
Making progress on difficult decisions – A view between consent vs consensus Quote: “Nothing is what happens when everyone has to agree” – Seth Godin...
To be honest, I think there are way too many coaches in the world. For years, while walking around the IT industry in the Netherlands,...
My dog has his invite method down to a fine art… it starts with the lowering of his head and lowers the whole of his...
Are you trying to work remotely, but feel that you and your team are not as productive as you would when working from the same...
Lately, I see some companies move to true ‘agile enterprises’. I’ve always been a firm believer of empowerment and self management. To become a true...
To create innovation, we need entrepreneurship, but why is it so hard to become entrepreneurial? We dissect in this piece. I’ve always been an entrepreneur....
One frequently asked question I get about agile is: ‘Can agile work outside of software projects?’ Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, and here’s why...
Hugo’s take on why it is much harder to start an innovation program than starting an agile or digital transformation. The past months, I’ve been...
Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives after one or...
We are all familiar with the role of Business Analysts (BA) and are aware of their key responsibilities in software development. The International Institute of...
This article is a continuation of the article I wrote last week which can be found here . My favorite startup author, Eric Ries, write...
My favorite startup author, Eric Ries, write some very interesting points for corporate innovators in his book ‘the startup way’. He explains what makes silicon...