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Assessment and preparation
Interviews, observation and data from your tools to understand how work really flows today, and where agility will pay off first.
Services / Transformation & coaching
Agile that sticks
We guide organisations through every stage of agile adoption, whether you are starting fresh, scaling up or fixing what didn't stick. We work with single teams or whole departments, inside your workflows, on the cultural, technical and structural problems together.
150+
people in Hollard's first SAFe rollout
9
teams coached on Standard Bank core banking
01 / The journey
Five steps to an agile organisation
Wherever you are starting from, we tailor each step to your context, from a single team to a whole department.
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Roadmap, framework and method
A roadmap that fits your context: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or a blend, with the rationale written down and agreed with leadership.
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Agile organisation structures
Teams, roles and trains set up around value streams, with clear ownership of backlogs, dependencies and decisions.
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Standards, tools and techniques
Working agreements, definitions of ready and done, Jira or Azure DevOps configuration, templates and reporting that everyone uses.
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Execute, learn and improve
Coaching through real increments, retrospectives that change things, and metrics that show whether it is working.
02 / Enablement
Coaching, training and reporting
Agile maturity assessment
A 360-degree review of how agile your teams and leadership really are, from interviews, observation and targeted questions, ending in tailored recommendations.
- Stakeholder interviews and observation
- Maturity scoring per capability
- A prioritised improvement roadmap
Reporting and dashboarding
Power BI, Azure DevOps and Jira dashboards that show flow, value and delivery health, plus training so your team can run them.
- Flow efficiency and cumulative flow
- Team, group and portfolio views
- Self-serve report training
Agile simulation
Scenario-based practice where teams make agile decisions under pressure (a regulatory change, a missing stakeholder, a shifting priority), then debrief together.
- Risk-free experiments
- Facilitated debriefs
- Built at Hollard with AI-assisted scenarios
Agile foundations and execution
Hands-on training in the roles, events and practices that make Scrum and Kanban work, and in the anti-patterns that stop them working.
- Roles, events and backlog refinement
- Metrics: burndown, cycle time, team health
- Scaling tactics for teams of teams
Agile tool training
Practical training on the tools your teams live in, configured for how you actually work.
- Jira and Azure DevOps boards, dashboards and dependencies
- Confluence spaces and templates
- Miro and FigJam for planning and design
Design thinking and lean startup
Take an idea from problem framing to an MVP: personas, journeys, user stories, acceptance criteria and a release plan.
- Problem framing and user research
- Story mapping and MVP definition
- Lean canvas and release planning
03 / Proof
Where we've done it
Hollard Insurance
Designed and led the first SAFe rollout: 10–15 teams and 150+ people, with standards, training, AI-assisted simulation and Power BI reporting.
Read moreSouth African Reserve Bank
Introduced agile ways of working across 7–10 teams (about 120 people) on the Financial Surveillance programme.
Read moreStandard Bank
Ran the bank's first agile proof of concept, then coached nine teams of 100–120 engineers on core banking (via EOH).
Read more04 / Toolkit
Tools and techniques we bring
A practical kit across agile, design thinking and lean startup, chosen for your context rather than applied wholesale.