Who are we? We are a small, boutique agile transformation consulting firm. We specialize in working with executive teams to define desired outcomes. Outcomes that enable companies to deliver more value to their customers at a sustainable, but accelerated pace. How is this achieved? Not by simply ratcheting your people. All that gets you is attrition of the worst kind. When employees become demoralized the most talented ones leave first. Why, because they're highly competitive in the job market.

Therefore, successful organizational transformations are not about "do more with less." The kind of garbage credo that might only get you a bump of a quarter. If you want sustainable organizational change it's obvious it also has to include benefits for your people. Why else would they want to stay?

We know from experience it's possible to make significant changes in how you work, and how you deliver work to your customers by building in best practices that have been proven over decades. Many of these are conceptually simple, but apparently difficult to implement because many companies only attempt to implement these changes somewhat superficially. They'll talk about intent and use all the right words, but many times there's no follow-through, no stickiness. Yet, what you want is the sticky kind, because that's where the sustainability of the change is. And how do you accomplish something that sticks? Simple, with great leadership.

So that's the first thing we engage on. The leadership team and the skills needed to making lasting change. Not just change, but change that sticks. Because only then will you realize all the benefits something like "agile" can deliver. We know this from experience because we've seen it done right and we've seen it done wrong. Right, unfortunately, isn't necessarily more difficult than wrong, but it does require a certain mindset and a dedication to doing things correctly, even if it feels harder. Interestingly, doing something right often feels more difficult when, in practice, it's not once you commit to doing it so. Doing something correctly, the right way, actually winds up saving a ton of time on the backside, because when things are done the right way from the very beginning, things like quality are immediately built in. And when quality is high, expensive rework is avoided. And that.... saves a ton of time and avoids a ton of ancillary unintended consequences.

As a wise duck once said (in Kung Fu Panda), "there is no secret ingredient."