Escrivo Internet Consulting

Agile ways of working help to ensure that teams across the organisation regularly take the time to consider how they work, and to find opportunities to improve

Early and frequent delivery reduces risk and time to market, improving ROI & cashflow This is the Agility that enables innovation and creativity in teams

Whether you consider costs as waste, rework, financial costs, delays

reducing any of these increases the availability of productive delivery capacity

My job, as an Enterprise Agile Coach,

 is to enable your Agile Transformation journey “…we value individuals and interactions over processes and tools…” I enable Agile transformations by working with people at every level in the organisation The most common things I find missing are communication opportunities that allow feedback and contextual information to flow freely across the organisation

At the heart of every agile transformation are the delivery teams, whose job it is to actually get the work of the organisation done: they are the building blocks of Agile delivery

Frequently these are “Scrum teams” in Agile organisations, although Scrum is just one of many ways of structuring and managing the flow of work through a team Many of the teams I have worked with have been using Kanban, for example

I focus on building Agile mindsets, and on helping teams to build good habits in their adoption of agile frameworks and ways of working

working with

Portfolio & Programme Teams In a perfect world each delivery team is autonomous and independent, but as organisations scale up, some orchestration is usually required to ensure that the work of the delivery teams is coordinated

The flow of work through the organisation – the value stream – is typically controlled and regulated by portfolio and programme teams

I focus on helping portfolio & programme teams build systemic agility into their processes to ensure that their processes are engineered to accommodate and enable change, operating in ways that allow the delivery teams to work effectively

In an Agile Transformation, the process of managing the flow of work  from strategy to execution is what determines the organisational agility that can be achieved

The critical role of leadership teams is in setting context and clear intent for their organisations, and in removing the dependencies that interrupt the flow of work through the organisation

I focus on working with leadership teams to improve how they communicate strategy, and how they set the conditions in their organisations to ensure that the agile transformation can successfully deliver expected business benefits

What does an Agile Coach do?

When I’m working with you, I’ll be switching frequently between all of these roles I bring a practitioner’s perspective to agile coaching – bringing practical experience to the matter at hand, engaging, and helping the teams I work with understand and see the challenges and opportunities that they were previously unaware of

As an experienced Agile Coach I help individuals and teams to explore & achieve their goals As an Agile change agent, my role is to make sure conversations happen effectively

As an experienced Agile consultant, I help clients set direction and design, deliver & support solutions As an experienced Agile practitioner I give teams and individuals examples, guidance and support I'm an experienced Agile trainer with experience of delivering online as well as in-person

I’m a certified Enterprise Agile Coach and Chartered Accountant with almost 30 years’ experience of leading and supporting teams.

I spent 10 years working with one of the largest global professional services businesses During this time, I qualified as a CA, and went on to work on global ERP implementations and enterprise-scale software engineering projects For a year I supported our development teams around the world as the Knowledge Manager for our Global Software Engineering Centre of Excellence

In the following 16 years, I successfully established and ran my own software engineering business We built software for 200+ clients in many different industry sectors We were one of the first AWS partners in Europe We built software following a waterfall model, until a talented Scrum Master helped me understand that there was a better way to work, and how to put Agile into practice

I’m now a certified Enterprise Agile Coach (ICP-ACC, ICP-CAT, ICP-ENT) and Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF), and use my experience to help me guide individuals, teams, businesses, and their leaders to discover, explore and adopt Agile ways of working on their own Agile transformation journeys

Client & colleague feedback

"You have very successfully and with enormous care seen the conversion of our team into a confident, can-do agile organisation of motivated and supportive team members "