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The Agile Industrial Complex
Agile was never meant to be a playbook - but that's exactly what it's become. In our latest article, we explore how the Agile Industrial Complex turned a mindset into merchandise, and what leaders can do to reclaim agility as a principle-driven, outcome-focused way of working. If your teams are running the rituals but not seeing the results, this one’s for you.

Darren Emery
5 min read


Team Topologies Meets Enterprise Reality
Most org charts look like neat boxes, but the real flow of work resembles a tangled subway/tube/metro map - overlapping lines, hidden bottlenecks, and missed connections. To deliver at scale, you need more than structure. You need flow by design.

Darren Emery
5 min read


Why You Can’t Scale Delivery Without Focused Leadership
Your organisation can’t move faster than your leadership’s ability to focus. While most execs chase headcount, tools, or structure, the real constraint is attention. This article explores why executive focus - not effort - is the hidden bottleneck in enterprise transformation, and how to reclaim it as your organisation’s most strategic asset.

Darren Emery
4 min read


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


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


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


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


SAY HELLO TO SAFe 6.0
Following its ethos for continuous improvement, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has recently announced SAFe 6.0 - an updated and...
magdalena valkova
2 min read
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