The last twelve months have seen an unprecedented level of decentralisation and distribution of workforces, with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing...
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Agile delivery: powered by real teams
Do you and your colleagues sometimes feel you are struggling alone to contend with a tsunami of work? Do you feel you have to struggle along with...
Overwhelmed with work? A simple Agile antidote
Overwhelmed with Work? A Simple Agile Antidote Do you and your team sometimes feel super-busy, but not sure that you’re doing the right things? Or...
Can Scrum Work with Fixed Deadlines?
Can Scrum Work with Fixed Deadlines? Scrum sounds great but can Scrum work with fixed deadlines? We get this question a lot from project and...
Agile Management: Unfreeze the ‘frozen middle’
When business leaders and senior executives in an organisation fail to offer clear direction, encouragement and motivation to their middle...
Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap
Almost all organisations we help are looking for faster, smarter ways to deliver their mission critical programmes and/or recovering programmes that...
Plans are nothing; planning is everything
A recent piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Have We Taken Agile Too Far?’ (penned by two former Amazon execs) claimed that “many...
How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working
We’ve already discussed the importance of decentralised command and decision-making in an earlier blog, outlining how managers need to be able to...
5 Simple Steps to Decentralised Command and Decision-making
In an earlier blog post on Servant Leadership, Commander’s Intent and Decentralised Command we discussed the ways in which decentralised command and...
Why Delivery is Everything
Our core philosophy at Fractal, and the secret sauce behind every single successful programme we help to drive, is that delivery is everything....
What is Agile Leadership And How To Adopt It
One continuing problem we see with many of today’s business leaders is that they rarely adopt Agile at the leadership level. It’s not that they are...
Benefits Of Servant Leadership Style For Agile Leaders
With many businesses still struggling to cope with the challenges of Covid-19 it’s clear that classical ways of managing and running organisations...
The Role of Agile in Lean Change Management
At Fractal Systems we strive to educate our clients and the project teams that we partner with about the importance of applying Agile in context....
Five Elements For A Great Online Training
With the new normal, online training has exploded, but potential students are confused about what makes a great online training course and the...
The Five Scrum Values and How They are used in High Performing Teams
Some time ago, Google’s People Operations set out to learn the secret of successful teams. Being data driven, the Google People Operations team...
How does Agile Work in 2021?
It is a time of unprecedented challenge. Firms are experiencing extraordinary disruption. Productivity is impacted. Delivery has stalled. Leaders...