ABOUT SOURCE AGILITY
"We believe that by making just 2-3 changes to their approach, most organisations can effectively double the amount of work flowing through their delivery system."
At Source Agility, we specialise in optimising the performance of agile operating models to drive organisational success through enhanced IT and technology delivery. Our mission is to empower organisations to deliver technology solutions effectively through improved delivery practices, fostering a strong connection to purpose among employees. We offer a comprehensive suite of services, including:
Technology Delivery Lifecycle Optimisation: Streamlining and enhancing the entire technology delivery process to ensure efficient and effective outcomes.
Work Management Tooling Configuration: Customising and configuring work management tools to align with organisational needs and improve workflow efficiency.
Role & Responsibility Alignment: Ensuring clear and optimised roles and responsibilities within a delivery system, program or team to maximise performance and accountability.
Combining agility principles, lived experience, and expert-level advice with our Accountability Agility System™ and Responsive Agile Coaching© model, we transform technology delivery to achieve impactful business outcomes.
"Enhancing the progression of valuable work from IDEA to OUTCOME while cultivating a positive organisational culture is at the heart of Source Agility's primary focus."
THE SOURCE WAY
At Source Agility we work with our clients as an Agile delivery performance partner.
The Source Agility Way involves taking stock of the current levels of delivery performance BEFORE introducing any changes to the way of working.
Below is the series of steps we take with clients along a lifecycle of a change journey towards higher levels of delivery performance.
SET THE VISION
Where you want to get to/what success looks like. Source Agility will facilitate a workshop to create a compelling picture of what the future could look like.
ASSESS PERFORMANCE
What are the delivery metrics and what are they telling us about our current level of performance?
CO-DESIGN THE MODEL
What are we proposing to change that we believe will uplift delivery performance; we create this with you.
MOBILISE THE
CHANGE
This phase is typically the easiest, marked by energy and enthusiasm as teams explore new ways of working. Source Agility provides consulting and coaching support to guide this initial momentum, helping establish a solid foundation and ensuring early wins that build confidence in the journey ahead.
EMBED/SCALE THE CHANGE
This phase is where change often encounters resistance, and the essential work of strategic improvement begins. Source Agility takes a data-driven approach to guide practical, high-impact adjustments. By leveraging delivery performance metrics established at the outset of the improvement lifecycle, we help build a strong case for targeted changes that deliver significant value.
SUSTAIN THE
CHANGE
In this phase, Source Agility takes a step back to empower your team, building internal competencies that endure beyond our engagement. By the end, your people will be equipped to drive improvements independently, supported by a delivery performance management model that includes measures and data for ongoing optimisation.
We specialise enabling high-performance technology delivery systems
Most (85%+) organisations have adopted Agile in some way to enable technology. The industry is now realising that adopting Agile methods and language does not improve IT delivery performance.
What is required to enable a high-performance Agile IT delivery system is the removal of the constraints or impediments to the flow of work.
At Source Agility we focus on discovering where these impediments are and then working with management to remove them, enabling healthy high-performing Agile delivery teams.
Finding the waste in the system
Source Agility is often called in to enable higher levels of performance within an agile delivery system. But where across dozens of teams and multiple layers of the organisation is the root cause of under-performance?
This case study showcases how we assessed an agile system; real data is provided with examples of how we mapped the flow of value across a large system.
GET THE RESPONSIVE AGILE COACHING BOOK!
In “Responsive Agile Coaching” – Niall McShane draws on over a decade of agile coaching experience to document a clear and well-researched model that lifts the lid on how agile coaching actually works. The book starts by defining what the role of agile coach has become in recent times before putting forward a field-tested and theoretically sound model for conducting agile coaching conversations.
Click the link below to check it out.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Source Agility works with and through partners as well as directly. Recent and current clients include:
IT Solutions team at Eurofins Environment Testing
Australia engaged Niall to help improve Agile ways of working. Niall conducted on site sessions with all members and helped us understand identify areas of improvement.
Thank you Niall for bringing in your expertise to help our IT Solutions team perform better.
Vibrance Partners
Vibrance Partners taps into the Agile Coaching network of Source Agility to help find additional agile coaches for various client engagements. Source Agility both identifies and vets agile coaches before making recommendations, providing insights into the coaches’ strengths and development needs. We have been really pleased with the quality of coaches to whom we have been provided introductions.
Michael Lambert
Human-centric SaaS Leader
I first encountered Niall's work through a post on LinkedIn as he was embarking on his journey as an author. After attending a meetup he hosted, I rapidly decided to pre-order Niall's book and I've been active in the Agile community Niall has built ever since. As I made the decision to step away from my individual contributor role, Niall's wealth of knowledge helped guide me toward a decision on the career path that I would find most fulfilling. From his ability to sense and then respond, to knowing if he should open and hold or tell and show, I never felt like I was being pressured or steered in a particular direction
Rajat Bhalla
Agile Coach
Niall and I worked together at Telstra. Niall would always look to help his mentees by giving them just enough direction and helping them learn through their own experience. He was quite comfortable in coaching the leadership team and sharing his insights with rest of the coaching group. As a leader of the coaching group at Telstra, Niall was successful in shaping the practices of the sub-org whilst taking them further on the path to maturity
Dr. Darren Gandel
Department of Education & Training
Niall is an amazing agile coach who actively displays his years of industry experience. He has a wide and deep understanding of agile ways of working coupled with on the ground experience in many challenging and complex environments. Moreover, he has great stakeholder management skills and always driven to achieve a positive outcome. Niall is someone you can count on to drive productive agile transformations and capability uplifts in your organisations
Melbourne VIC, Australia
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