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Unlocking Business Success with McKenna Agile Consultants AI-Powered Strategy and OKR Assessment Tool

Unlocking Business Success with our AI-Powered OKR Assessment Tool

In our experience of helping clients implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), we’ve noticed that each client starts the project with a different level of knowledge and…

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Aaron McKenna giving a talk at Agile Yorkshire on OKRs

Key Takeaways from Our Agile Yorkshire Talk on OKRs

After an 8-year gap, we finally made it back to Agile Yorkshire in March 2024 where Aaron Mckenna delivered a talk on “Supercharging Alignment with Objectives and…

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The Power of Agility- Why Choose a Boutique Agile Consultancy? - McKenna Agile Consultants

The Power of Agility: Why Choose a Boutique Agile Consultancy?

At McKenna Agile Consultants we pride ourselves on the quality of our work. In the early days of our company, our internal motto was “Great Relationships, Solid…

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Lessons from the Kitchen - McKenna Agile Consultants

Agile Lessons From The Kitchen

I spent a lot of time in 2023 working in Chicago, helping connect strategy with execution by adopting agile techniques with my clients. Coincidentally, one of my…

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OKR Case Study McKenna Consultants

Navigating the OKR Landscape: Field-Tested Implementation Lessons

We recently shared a case study following our work with a US-based organisation who had achieved some success with OKRs in 2023 but needed external support to…

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Bring A Laser Focus to Your 2024 Goals With OKRs. Bespoke, Internal OKR Workshops Delivered by McKenna Agile Consultants

Bring A Laser Focus to Your 2024 Goals With OKRs

As we approach the end of the year, now is the time to consider what our goals are for 2024. One way we help clients to supercharge…

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Agile Book Club. Our book choices - McKenna Agile Consultants

Running An Agile Book Club

At McKenna Agile Consultants, we love to learn as much as we can from a variety of sources. Considering that we are all operating in a complex,…

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Building a Lean-Agile Culture: How We Elevated Portfolio Performance by 9%

Project Background For over a year, McKenna Agile Consultants worked alongside our North American partner with a US charitable organisation to take their agile transformation to the…

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Powering Change with the SCARF Model and User Personas in SAFe LPM - McKenna Agile Consultants

Powering Change with the SCARF Model and User Personas in SAFe LPM

In a recent implementation of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), we encountered a significant challenge – making the change stick. While SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and its Lean…

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Bridging the Gap: Ensuring Alignment of Strategy and Execution in Lean Portfolio Management - McKenna Agile Consultants

Bridging the Gap: Ensuring Alignment of Strategy and Execution

Over the last 18 months, we’ve had the privilege of working closely with an independent public charity in the USA, assisting them on their journey towards embracing…

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