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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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Checking Your Agile Pulse: The Agile Health Check for McKenna Agile Consultants

Checking Your Agile Pulse: The Agile Health Check

Implementing agile methodologies is an ongoing journey for organisations. To ensure continued success and effectiveness, it’s essential to regularly assess and evaluate the health of your agile…

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Navigating Change: Agile Consultancy Services from McKenna Agile Consultants

Navigating Change: Agile Consultancy Services

The pace of change in today’s business landscape means organisations need to be agile and adaptive. Implementing agile methodologies is a powerful way to navigate change successfully….

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Mastering the Art of Agile Leadership: Essential Tools and Techniques for Success - McKenna Consultants

Mastering the Art of Agile Leadership: Essential Tools and Techniques for Success

In many of our Agile Leadership coaching sessions with managers and leaders, we regularly hear them ask things like “How can I be more agile?”, “I would…

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Facilitating a WSJF Prioritisation Session with over 75 Features | McKenna Agile Consultants

Agile Prioritisation Techniques – WSJF is a Skill, Not Just a Tool

Fast, effective, and reliable prioritisation is a key skill in any business. Understanding the impact, effort, dependencies, and risk associated with implementing new business capabilities is a…

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Using Agile for Successful SAP Deployments - McKenna Agile Consultants

Using Agile for Successful SAP Deployments

Over the past three years, we have been engaged with a multinational client to deliver agile training and coaching to one of the biggest SAP deployments in…

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How to Get The Most Out of an Agile Assessment - McKenna Agile Consultants

How to Get The Most Out of an Agile Assessment

When we work with an organisation that is going through an agile transformation, or about to, the conversation of an agile assessment often comes up. The challenge…

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Being Agile in Practice – Part 6: Mastering Agile in Practice

Being Agile in Practice – Part 6: Mastering Agile in Practice

So, we’ve reached the end of our series – Being Agile in Practice. Here is a summary of our top tips and some questions to ask yourself…

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