ACE HELPS YOU GET MORE WITH LESS – SUSTAINABLY
Agile, if done right, eliminates work that does not add value. Truly agile organisations focus on value rather than on activity; thereby accomplishing more with less, reducing work and increasing productivity.
ACE is a bouquet of curated programs designed to make Agile work for your business. It helps make Agile do what you hoped it would.
ACE helps organisations operationalize Agile principles through a proven framework and tailored roadmap, driving a transformation that aligns Agile practices with the organization’s unique context and business goals. ACE interventions with our clients have demonstrated greater alignment, engagement and decision making in teams.
With ACE, get your teams to focus on what’s most important – Business Results
Agile was meant to help you be successful as a business and be quick to adapt to changing market conditions and opportunities. But as time rolled on, it became yet another thing to tick off, a maze of keywords, a labyrinth of tasks, a pyramid of teams.
Truth is, Agile is not just the doing of the tasks; it requires a leadership culture, and a organisation mindset to deliver results. And ACE programs focus not only on process but also on the culture in organizations and guide executive leadership and teams to achieve greater agility.
DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION NEED IT?
You need a dose of ACE if you are experiencing one or more of these:
Teams fail to meet goals consistently.
Enhance the effectiveness of planning by driving better team participation and decision-making skills.
Only team leaders talk in retrospectives.
Build psychological safety in teams and equip team leaders with retrospective facilitation skills.
Standups don't happen if team leaders are absent.
Train teams on the right techniques of startups including practices to break down hierarchy and silos within teams.
Too many activities in Work In Progress status.
Finishing is often more important than starting. Equip teams and leaders with flow management techniques.
Teams under stress before every stakeholder presentationss review..
Prevent silos of work and cross skill teams to drive fair loading of all team members right through the plan duration.
Your Challenges. Our Solutions.
We offer several packaged options that you can choose depending on your unique organizational needs. You can even choose to run our programs in a part of your organization as pilots.
ACE Current State Assessment
An objective assessment of the cultural and process maturity of agile practices in the organisation. The assessment is based on surveys, interviews and on the job observations. This is followed by a workshop to co-create a roadmap towards desired the state of maturity.
ACE Leadership Bootcamp
A 2-day workshop for leaders on the new role of leadership in Agile organizations. An experiential workshop that covers lean-agile concepts, the changes needed in operational governance mechanisms and management roles.
ACE for Agile Coaches
A 3-day workshop on the cultural elements of Agile covering most common anti-patterns. The workshop equips participants with lean thinking, specific practices, role redefinitions, governance mechanisms that can be implemented to build an Agile culture.
ACE Team Transformation
A focused 4-month engagement involving assessment, training and on the job coaching for one or two agile teams to help them improve their productivity by identifying and correcting agile anti-patterns.
ACE Organization Transformation
A comprehensive transformation program towards boosting agility of the organization. It includes lean thinking, redesigning role definitions, structural realignment, operational process refinements, shifting measurements from outputs to outcomes and behavioural coaching.
ACE Product Pivot
A program specifically targeted to organizations looking to pivot from services led to product led growth. The program integrates the elements of product mindsets into the overall Agile Culture.
HOW ACE ADDRESSES THIS?
Listen. Observe. Evaluate.
A simple anonymous survey combined with our consultants observing and listening to your teams go about their work. The survey provides an objective assessment around the 5 cultural principles of Agile and identifies agile anti-patterns that are in play in your organization.
Align. Enable. Commit.
Customized and interactive workshops that leverage real-life scenarios from your organization. It enables Agile teams, scrum masters and managers to recognize anti-patterns.
Implement. Refine. Coach.
Develops action plans for teams, scrum masters and managers to implement practices to build an agile culture in teams. Work with the teams on the ground to help them implement agile processes in letter and spirit.
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