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The Evolution of SCRUM MASTERS:
How the Scrum Master role is evolving in the modern enterprise and how your organisation can be first mover to take advantage

Darren Emery
3 min read


OKRs for Leadership
Over the past twenty years the corporate world has seen significant change influenced by digital technology which has revolutionised the...

Darren Emery
3 min read


Are You the Puppet Master or the puppet?
Jira, love it or hate it? Either way, for a lot of organisations it’s necessary; it’s the main tool that development teams use to (1)...

Abbas Dhanani
3 min read


Is Timesheeting Bad and Evil?
Clearly from those that have to do it or manage it, the answer is a resounding yes. Is it that clear-cut? Of course not. So let's delve...

Simon Maurer
4 min read


Outcomes Over Outputs - 10 Steps to Becoming an Outcome Focussed Org
We set Sales teams quota targets, but we don’t tell them they need to close a specific deal on a specific day. We ask marketing teams to...

Darren Emery
4 min read


Why Leaders Don’t Care About Culture
I was reading an article the other day from one of the big consultancy firms about organisational culture and why cultural change efforts...

Darren Emery
3 min read


A Lesson from Golf to Transform Your Organisation
In my consultancy work I use sporting analogies a lot. My hero growing up was Andre Agassi, and he once said that every tennis match is a...

Darren Emery
3 min read


Your Strategy Sucks: 3 Ways to Fix It
Here’s a stat for you: 5% of employees are aware of and/or understand their company’s strategy. Or an even better one: 71% of employees...

Darren Emery
2 min read


How Not To Do An Agile Transformation
Many of the organisations agilicist are drafted into have already been through an “agile transformation”. But they aren’t “transformed”....

Darren Emery
3 min read


Want Productivity? Build a Culture of Trust
FACT: Higher Trust = Higher Productivity and more engagement. But how do you create a culture of trust in your organisation? ..... I was...

Darren Emery
2 min read


Productivity: 3 Reasons Your Teams Aren't Getting Results
“The teams aren’t productive enough!” At Agilicist, we hear this a lot from senior management. And usually it’s because of one of these 3...

Darren Emery
2 min read


The No1 #agileframework!
With all this talk, I’m going to share the best #agileframework out there. This framework helped Agilicist drive multiple successful...

Darren Emery
1 min read


47% of Agile Transformations Fail.
47% of Agile Transformations Fail. Why? Because companies do one of these two things: They focus on Practices They think that doing Stand...

Darren Emery
1 min read


The Paradox of prioritisation:
Does prioritisation Equal Good Strategy? In the dynamic and fast-paced world of business, strategy plays a pivotal role in shaping the...

Darren Emery
3 min read


Social Conformity Leadership and Cultural Change
I recently saw a video on social conformity that caught my eye, a modern take of the classic psychology experiment by Asch (1951). The...

Abbas Dhanani
2 min read


Is The SAFe Framework worth doing?
PI Planning is at the very heart of any SAFe implementation. But do we really need it? Well, as Dean Leffingwell states: ‘If you aren’t...

Darren Emery
2 min read


Trust in agile environments - Your Springboard to Better Working Relationships
Everybody wants to be trusted and to trust those around them, right? Trust is something that we all rely upon in our interpersonal...
Erica Hartmann
9 min read


Walking That Fine Line Between Empowerment and Abdication- (In Agile Teams)
“Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.” – JEAN...
Erica Hartmann
6 min read


What You Measure is What You Get Back -(AGILe teams)
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” – William Blake. In the modern world there are...
Erica Hartmann
4 min read
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