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Making business transformations work
We build transformations that enrich people's work lives. Our insights have saved companies $10M+ per year.
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Making business transformations work
We build transformations that enrich people's work lives. Our insights have saved companies $10M+ per year.
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Work Lives Improved
What We Do
We help you build strong, scalable, enterprise agility with real, tangible outcomes.
Save you $10M+ per year
We've helped thousands of people create productivity improvements.
Improve time to market
Help your company deliver faster, moving from months to weeks.
Reduce delivery risk
Increase transparency across your entire portfolio with value metrics: impact, flow and capability.
Build enterprise resilience
While others are buffeted by market downturn, our clients are more resilient to disruptive change.
Make agile sticky
We're global leaders in agile at scale. Our aproaches use psychology to make long-lasting change.
Improve company productivity
x2 throughput through creating strong guardrails for self-organisation.
We transform organisations
We work collaboratively with our clients to create strategies and build operating models so you are prepared for change, expect it, and adapt more easily.
Improve quality
Reduce costs
Deliver faster
Be agile
We build resilience to change
With 12 years’ experience, ZXM’s metrics-driven and adaptive approach improves success and builds an agile culture that pivots more effectively to disruptive change.
Our track record
Average time to pivot to change
4 weeks down from 220 days
Forecast cost savings
Up to $20M+
Time to deliver value
Daily
Psychological safety
Very high
Successful change needs organisational psychology
We are successful because we use organisational psychology to make your business transformation have longer lasting impacts.
Create awareness
We help people see the "what's in it for me" factor to adapt easier to market and stakeholder change.
We go beyond traditional change comms
We move you from talking about change to practices that help everyone adapt to disruption.
Build ability to change
We train your staff to use agile practices that help them expect the forces of change and adapt effortlessly to them.
Co-create change
We co-design structures so your staff are more invested and feel they're part of change processes.
Our Services
ZXM has 12 years’ experience with end-to-end business transformations with agile frameworks and operating models, including SAFe®, Nexus, Scrum™, Kanban and Lean.
End-to-end Business Transformation
While others are buffeted by market downturn, our clients are more resilient to disruptive change.
Lean-Portfolio Management
Set pragmatic goals, objectives and operate in cycles of adaptive planning with ZXM's LPM strategies.
Agile Operating Models
Improve your company's ability to respond to disruptive change without devolving into crisis management.
Agile OKRs
Successfully deliver products and services using our 4 key value metrics model from Scrum.org™ Evidence Based Management.
Agile Training
SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Mindset, and Management 3.0 to power your modern delivery capability.
Coaching
Grow modern leadership skills and embed new agile capabilities from executives to teams.
Real-world success stories
We’ve helped clients around the world.
Agile in Marketing
ZXM coach digital marketing company Fishbat to pivot faster with...
Improving time to delivery in a Shared Service environment
Using a kanban approach and focusing on key measures of...
Business transformation for the Australian Census
Creating an agile capability delivery for Census 2021 to improve...
Certified agile courses led by hands-on practitioners
Our trainers are active practitioners with over 10 years of practical experience with a wide range of agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, Nexus and SAFe®.
Insights
A collection of the latest insights, stories and experiences from some of the most experienced agile consultants in APAC.
What is an ‘Increment’?
How do you create an Increment of work in Scrum? What has it got to do with the Product Goal and Definition of Done?
Writing User Stories
How do you write great User Stories?
How do I run Backlog Refinement
Backlog Refinement is a critical part of good practice in Scrum. Refining the Product Backlog ensures that the Team and Product Owner have sufficientl
What Parkrun has taught me about Estimation
The duration of time to run 5kms will vary widely between runners due to complexity, fitness, elevation and effort. Relative Estimation is the key.
How to build a Product Based Agile Operating Model
Focusing on products and how value flows to the customer will help ultimately ensure that your transformation program is more likely to succeed.
Metrics for effectiveness of enterprise agility and leadership through organisational psychology
What metrics do you need to understand whether you’re going to achieve enterprise outcomes for agile transformations
7 things everyone gets wrong about SAFe® and how to avoid them
Should you have business as Product Owners? Is the Release Train Engineer a Delivery Manager? Where do Project Managers go? Aren’t Epic Owners the executive? Everyone gets these things wrong. Find out how to avoid SAFe’s implementation traps.
Daily Stand-up: Why it’s time to ditch the ‘3 questions’
Are you still asking the ‘three questions’. It’s time you learned some better patterns to inspect your progress toward the team’s Sprint Goal.
The Ultimate Guide to Agile Reporting
You have reports to deliver to executive. Delivery, risk, and cost is foremost on their mind. What kind of reports on your agile capability and delivery, based on objective agile project management metrics, are going to provide you with the best transparency of what’s really going on?
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