Phil Gadzinski
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10 years 1 monthPhil Gadzinski is a Principal Consultant in the Business Advisory team of Elabor8, Australia’s best known agile management consultancy. Phil is also a Method Guide for the Heart of Agile. He spends his time working with enterprise level clients, with the big gnarly problems that span thousands of people, who want to move towards bringing agility as a cultural way of working. So get past the agile industry rhetoric and the complexity, and to focus on how an entire organisation can provide better outcomes for their customers. Collaborate deliver reflect and improve is his framework for agility - thanks Alistair Cockburn! Phil is happy to have a conversation anytime about applying the Heart of Agile as a meta level framework in any company in any scenario, even alongside your existing agile frameworks. He can be reached at: [email protected]
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Your Strategic Planning Should Be Agile, TooWhat has agile taught us about trying to plan everything up front? It usually doesn’t work. So why does your company still use a yearly strategic planning approach that takes six months to develop and requires significant time and effort to pivot to new opportunities and challenges? We need to rethink strategic planning to incorporate design thinking, collaboration, and agility. |
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Back to Basics: Use the Heart of Agile to Frame Your Agile AdoptionSomewhere along the way, agile implementations have gotten overblown and unwieldy. Managers and leaders look at all the models and frameworks and think agile adoption is too confusing or not worth the effort. To communicate what agile truly means, we have to simplify the message by getting to the heart of agile: collaborate, deliver, reflect, and improve. |
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Want True Agility? Foster General Skills over SpecializationMany organizations enforce systems that stifle flexibility by promoting specialization. But encouraging learning new skills and expanding outside core responsibilities promotes flow over resource efficiency, helps cover gaps in time of crisis, and lets you build a team that can deliver continually at a sustainable pace. It's the age of the generalist. |
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Transitioning to Enterprise Agility—and Bringing Outsourced Delivery Partners Along When companies adopt agile internally, they often forget to extend the concepts and values to their partners. You have to look at your outsourced delivery components as part of the process that needs to be included as an extended team. Collaboration, reflection, and improvement is at the heart of agile, and it should look that way from the perspective of all elements in the delivery chain. |