We connect your strategy to your delivery teams

Teams can follow agile processes and still miss the mark. Agilicist ensures what gets delivered truly reflects your strategic vision.

About Us

Agile methodologies help your teams build things the right way - Agilicist ensures they build the right thing!

Image by Pedro Lastra

Dubai City View

City View

Describe your image

Image by Pedro Lastra

1/5

OUR APROACH

Turn strategic intent into actionable work so teams build what matters, not just what’s next.

Even with smart teams and strong agile delivery practices, many organisations still face the same issue: what’s being delivered doesn’t match what leadership actually wants.

Too often, teams work from the bottom up, building features and then retrofitting them to the strategy.

There are two main causes:

1. Strategy isn’t clearly communicated and traceable

2. Objectives aren’t measurable

This creates a disconnect between the boardroom and the backlog. We fix that disconnect

We work directly with your C-suite or strategic leaders to translate vision and goals into clear, outcome-focused objectives. No jargon, just what success actually looks like.

For example: Instead of “grow market share,” we help define, “Increase SME client acquisition by 20% in 12 months.”

2. Structure Strategy as OKRs and KPIs

We help convert strategic intent into measurable OKRs and KPIs, not for reporting theatre, but to give real guidance to teams and programme management.

These become the foundation for aligned decision-making and prioritisation.

3. Build Aligned Backlogs

With measurable objectives in place, we work with product leaders and programme managers to create strategically aligned backlogs: themes, epics, features and even user stories that directly support the top-level goals.

This stops random delivery, dark work and pet projects.

1.Define Measurable Strategy

4. Create Organisational Transparency

We make strategy visible across the business - from senior leadership to delivery teams - so everyone understands what’s important and why.

When strategy is transparent, teams can self-align. When it’s hidden, they guess.

5. Enable Executive Communication

We support leaders in communicating strategy to the rest of the organisation, not just once, but continuously. This ensures alignment isn’t a one-time event, but an ongoing conversation.

We’ve found in many organisations, just because you tell the teams the strategy, it doesn’t mean they remember it. We fix that.

Our Partnerships

"Agilicist didn't just change our practices, they changed our culture"

Gary Gallagher

Director of Product

Source: Google Reviews

CASE STUDIES

88%

Increase in Delivery Predictability

187%

Faster TTM (time to market)

96%

of staff either happy or very happy in their roles

100%

New platform delivered on-time and on budget

70%

Work done by teams is traceable to the strategy

£13bn

Assets Migrated

THE METHOD

UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM BEFORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE IT.

We go deep on your delivery process to understand
what’s working, what’s blocking, and what’s hidden.
The goal? Insight that provides the clarity to drive smart, focused change.

WE STABILISE THE SYSTEM SO STRATEGY FLOWS INTO DELIVERY.

We bring stability by connecting your strategy to how teams work day-to-day. That means less firefighting, clearer priorities, and more momentum - with everyone pulling in the same direction

WE HELP YOU OPTIMISE, RESPOND, AND DELIVER AT PACE.

Speed is built on clarity and alignment.
Like any high-performance engine, your delivery system needs tuning - calibrated and refined over time to stay sharp, fast, and adaptive in a world that won’t sit still.

Adapt

Align

Accelerate

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS

We help you turn strategic intent into focused, high-impact execution - so your teams deliver real outcomes that directly map to and drive your organisation’s objectives, not just activity. If you want to find out how we do this, explore our content to gain valuable insights into the ever-changing, fast-paced digital world.

Selling the Invisible: How to Make Technical Work Impossible for Executives to Ignore

Tech debt isn’t a technical problem - it’s a business problem wearing a technical hat. Legacy systems quietly drain millions in hidden costs and capacity. This article gives senior technology leaders the playbook for making technical work "executive obvious," using hard financials and a simple three-lens model to sell platform investment. Stop asking for permission; start presenting unavoidable strategic investment.

Darren Emery

6 min read

Green shoots growing from storm-damaged soil, symbolising renewal and trust rebuilding.

When Agility Breaks: How to Rebuild Trust and Momentum After Transformation Failure

When an agile transformation fails, most leaders respond with more control, not more trust. But rebuilding agility means restoring belief - in people, not process.

Darren Emery

5 min read

Partially scaffolded office building symbolising incomplete transformation

Why Agile Transformations Keep Failing: It’s Not the Framework, It’s the Follow-Through

Most agile transformations don’t fail because teams resist change: they fail because executives delegate transformation instead of designing it. Frameworks are scaffolding, not structures. The real work starts with reprogramming the organisational operating system: how decisions are made, how capital flows, and how learning loops back to leadership.

Darren Emery

7 min read

Railway control centre depot representing systemic delivery transformation.

Delivery Transformation for COOs

Most “delivery transformations” fail before they begin - not because of technology, but because leadership starts with the wrong question. The goal isn’t to make teams more agile; it’s to design a system that reliably converts strategic intent into customer outcomes. This is the real work of delivery transformation for COOs - less about frameworks, more about flow, focus, and leadership design.

Darren Emery

6 min read

Rowing team moving in unison on calm water, symbolising alignment and coordinated execution.

Why Great Strategies Die in Delivery

Most strategies don’t fail in the boardroom: they fail in translation. Across UK tech, leaders are crafting strong strategic visions only to watch them unravel during execution. The culprit isn’t ambition; it’s alignment. This article explores the four silent killers of delivery - miscommunication, misalignment, mis-coordination, and mis-adaptation - and outlines how top-performing companies turn strategy into a living system that drives real results.

Darren Emery

4 min read

THE AGILE KICK-ABOUT

Debating all things Agile with special guest speakers!

If you would like to join us and have a specific topic you would like to debate with us please get in touch!

Get in touch

Channel

The Agile Kickabout - Is Big Room Planning a waste of time???

30:17

The Collaborative Culture in Agile is Flawed!!!

40:44

39:12

We connect your strategy to your delivery teams

Teams can follow agile processes and still miss the mark. Agilicist ensures what gets delivered truly reflects your strategic vision.

OUR APROACH

Turn strategic intent into actionable work so teams build what matters, not just what’s next.

For example: Instead of “grow market share,” we help define, “Increase SME client acquisition by 20% in 12 months.”

2. Structure Strategy as OKRs and KPIs

These become the foundation for aligned decision-making and prioritisation.

3. Build Aligned Backlogs

This stops random delivery, dark work and pet projects.

1.Define Measurable Strategy

4. Create Organisational Transparency

When strategy is transparent, teams can self-align. When it’s hidden, they guess.

5. Enable Executive Communication

We’ve found in many organisations, just because you tell the teams the strategy, it doesn’t mean they remember it. We fix that.

Our Partnerships

"Agilicist didn't just change our practices, they changed our culture"

CASE STUDIES

THE METHOD

UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM BEFORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE IT.

We go deep on your delivery process to understand what’s working, what’s blocking, and what’s hidden. The goal? Insight that provides the clarity to drive smart, focused change.

WE STABILISE THE SYSTEM SO STRATEGY FLOWS INTO DELIVERY.

We bring stability by connecting your strategy to how teams work day-to-day. That means less firefighting, clearer priorities, and more momentum - with everyone pulling in the same direction

WE HELP YOU OPTIMISE, RESPOND, AND DELIVER AT PACE.

Speed is built on clarity and alignment. Like any high-performance engine, your delivery system needs tuning - calibrated and refined over time to stay sharp, fast, and adaptive in a world that won’t sit still.

Adapt

Align

Accelerate

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS

Selling the Invisible: How to Make Technical Work Impossible for Executives to Ignore

When Agility Breaks: How to Rebuild Trust and Momentum After Transformation Failure

Why Agile Transformations Keep Failing: It’s Not the Framework, It’s the Follow-Through

Delivery Transformation for COOs

Why Great Strategies Die in Delivery

THE AGILE KICK-ABOUT

The Agile Kickabout - Is Big Room Planning a waste of time???

The Collaborative Culture in Agile is Flawed!!!

Agile Outside of Tech

We go deep on your delivery process to understand
what’s working, what’s blocking, and what’s hidden.
The goal? Insight that provides the clarity to drive smart, focused change.

Speed is built on clarity and alignment.
Like any high-performance engine, your delivery system needs tuning - calibrated and refined over time to stay sharp, fast, and adaptive in a world that won’t sit still.