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Happy Wesak Day to all those celebrating!

We wish you and your family a peaceful celebration on this auspicious day.

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Use POWER START For More Purposeful and Effective Meetings

The POWER acronym stands for:

Purpose – What is the overall purpose of the meeting? Why are the participants gathered together for this purpose?

Outcome – What are the desired outcomes? What will we achieve during our time together?

What’s in it for them – Why are the invitees invited? What will their participation achieve in service of the purpose and their own needs?

Engagement – How will you prepare the participants before the meeting? How will you engage and keep them engaged during the session? How will you follow up on what is discussed and agreed?

Roles & Responsibilities – Who will lead the session? Do you need a timekeeper and someone to capture outputs? What role do you expect your participants to play? 

Read More at https://ekipa.sg/use-power-start-for-more-purposeful-and-effective-meetings/

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Know your Maturity level with our free Agile Maturity Assessment tool

After a few years of transformation most of the organizations doesn’t measure their agility by any means ? In order to maximize the benefit of being agile it’s really important that we monitor and adapt some practices continuously. Also if you are planning for a transformation it’s really important to know where do you stand right now so that you can clearly design you pathway to Agile. That is why we at Ekipa has developed a unique and comprehensive way of measuring your agile maturity with our Agile Maturity Assessment Tool so that you could know your Agile Scores and define your action plans accordingly to improve your score.

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Breaking Down Walls to Foster Agility

During 2020, I’ve been engaged in several larger transformations in Indonesia. Most companies focus on creating digital innovation. To achieve this, they create new ways of working and structures to become more agile. Agile is the ‘engine’ to create new products on services.

One of the biggest challenges I see in all these transformations is bureaucracy and policies. Over time, enterprises build all sorts of control mechanisms. I’m always wondering why they need them, but the unfortunate thing is: most people don’t wonder about that. Maybe because it creates work for them, because they like checking boxes or they’re afraid to touch them?

https://ekipa.sg/breaking-down-walls-to-foster-agility/

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Breaking Down Walls to Foster Agility

During 2020, I’ve been engaged in several larger transformations in Indonesia. Most companies focus on creating digital innovation. To achieve this, they create new ways of working and structures to become more agile. Agile is the ‘engine’ to create new products on services.

One of the biggest challenges I see in all these transformations is bureaucracy and policies. Over time, enterprises build all sorts of control mechanisms. I’m always wondering why they need them, but the unfortunate thing is: most people don’t wonder about that. Maybe because it creates work for them, because they like checking boxes or they’re afraid to touch them?

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555 Days of Agile Coaching from home

Over the last 555 days in Singapore, I have learnt to accept that most things are out of our control and we have to adapt to changing and challenging times. Working from home wasn’t easy to begin with when everyone is at home and we require dedicated spaces and devices to work on. Managing kids online classes, homework and keeping them occupied was stressful when I had really busy work days.

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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, I saw the market getting flooded with agile coaches. At meetups, 50% of the people were agile coaches. People left their jobs to become agile coaches. And I always thought: why do we need them?

Based on my experience of doing a lot of agile training and consulting over the past few years, I do see why they are required. Scrum masters get caught in the politics of their companies. Product owners struggle to understand their role and say no to stakeholders (who are often superiors). Team members have very practical questions on how to plan and estimate, how to prioritize, etc.

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Agile Maturity Assessment

The purpose of the Ekipa Agile Maturity Assessment Tool is to assess the agility health for an organization or team. The assessment is based on 4 categories: People, Process, Structure, and Tools.

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Digital Innovation Strategy​

Is it time to embark on your digital innovation strategy?

Today more than ever, adapting our business strategy to effectively evolve our digital channels across engagement, distribution, and support is at the forefront of our minds.

Why Digital Innovation?

Digital technologies and interfaces, provide us with an opportunity to interact with our customers more easily. Getting it right is complex, we believe starting with a design thinking approach enables you to quickly explore opportunities, test, learn, and adapt before investing too much in any particular solution.

Contact us to discuss your digital innovation needs, and how we can help.

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Team Coaching where a coach joins your agile teams to help facilitate, teach, mentor, and coach team members in their understanding and practice of agile methods.

Enterprise Coaching where an enterprise coach will work together with team coaches, your transformation team, your product owners and organisational leadership, providing guidance on scaling your agile transformation beyond the team level.

Our agile coaches bring with them a wealth of business and technology experience to partner with you and your teams throughout your transformation journey.

Contact us to find out more about our tailored coaching services.

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Digital Innovation Strategy​

Is it time to embark on your digital innovation strategy?

Today more than ever, adapting our business strategy to effectively evolve our digital channels across engagement, distribution, and support is at the forefront of our minds.

Why Digital Innovation?

Digital technologies and interfaces, provide us with an opportunity to interact with our customers more easily. Getting it right is complex, we believe starting with a design thinking approach enables you to quickly explore opportunities, test, learn, and adapt before investing too much in any particular solution.

Contact us to discuss your digital innovation needs, and how we can help.

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Agile Transformation

We provide design and execution consultancy for your organisation’s Agile transformation.

Starting out on your agile transformation journey?

We recommend starting small with a pilot approach across a limited number of teams, and the appropriate support from management. We will work with you to co-design your transformation drawing on our collective many years of experience and insights on what works.

Once we have designed an approach that works for your organisation, we support you through capability uplift, getting started with the teams, measuring and adapting to enable scaling.

Contact us to discuss how we can help you with your agile transformation.

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Agile Training

We provide interactive agile training, face to face, and online.

Ekipa Consultancy provides an extensive range of training programs. Most of our programs are available in both live classroom and interactive online formats. We are happy to customise our standard training programs to support the specific needs of your organisation.