Case Studies

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), is a knowledge-base of organisation and workflow patterns. SAFe® enables Scrum, an agile framework designed for developing and supporting complex products, to scale to 5-12 teams working on a single outcome.

Creating an agile capability delivery for Census 2021 to improve transparency, decrease rework, and improve the overall alignment of activities across the entire program.

Within 2 weeks remote guides were developed and provided to agile teams as they started to transition to working from home. The agile teams were able to pivot to the changes and stay productive in delivery.

Virtual big room planning events in SAFe® need a greater focus on communication to ensure that the same level of collaboration is achieved and can be done successfully through effective use of virtual tables, digital planning tools and chat rooms​.

ZXM coach digital marketing company Fishbat to pivot faster with Scrum as its strategic operating model

Using a kanban approach and focusing on key measures of flow, the team was able to reduce cycle time by 50% and reduce lead time by 30% thus improving their time to market and delivery effectiveness.

Within 12 months, ZXM helped the program’s costs to reduce and its productivity to increase through a focus on quality and agility.

ZXM’s coaching demonstrated that capability maturity and cultural change are built iteratively and incrementally and by focusing on continuous improvement was able to scale across the division within 12 months.

ZXM supports IAG executives to improve their understanding of their role in agile and mentor them through agile portfolio management.

Value Stream Mapping highlighted to business and the solution development team, where there was duplication and waste and where they could streamline the process and work in parallel to deliver the features faster.

How ZXM helped executives in a large government department responded rapidly to COVID-19 with agile

Setting up a Product Management Group provided visibility of the whole pipeline in priority order across the whole program and clear governance around responsibilities and decision making process

ZXM coached Nestlé's leadership across marketing, sales, legal, product management and distribution, to work as an agile team to deliver its new product initiative.

To improve coordination of dependencies with external teams in different branches, the Nexus framework was able to scale to meet this need for end to end integration of delivery for organisation wide product initiatives.

After 12 months, CER had improved transparency of prioritised projects and improvements in collaboration with business stakeholders and was able to be more responsive to changes in business needs and changes in its regulatory domain.

W.A. Police needed to rapidly scale in an environment of significant constraint and risk in a way that wouldn’t impact business-as-usual while rapidly building scaled agile capability.

ZXM helped reduce the lead time to sign contracts for product development from 3 months to 3 weeks.

Self-organisation is key to creating high performing agile teams. ZXM ran a "squadification" to help CER teams start their agile journey.

ZXM help and support HR leadership to use Kanban with Scrum to deliver their outcomes faster

Having business people in the PO role within the agile teams allowed quicker access to business/user expertise that helped with designing and building systems that better meet the needs of clients and business.

ZXM help executives reduce their reporting red tape and improve enterprise transparency and dependencies.

Turning WA Police PMO into champions of Lean Portfolio Management across the enterprise.

Play-based learning to teach Scrum, Lean and Kanban makes understanding agile easy

ZXM coaches a financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC throughout their digital transformation

Agile frameworks aren't just for software teams. This whole Design Studio goes agile with the help of ZXM!

ZXM brought significant cost savings to the ATO through transforming 23 delivery areas to agile.

When the ABS needed to deliver their Marriage Law postal survey in 90 days, they turned to ZXM to teach them to deliver it with agile.

The ABS turned to ZXM to build a consistent business agility capability across the entire organisation.

Introducing Scrum and SAFe can be a hard transformation. ATO engages ZXM's agile coaches to lead the charge.

When Comcare needed to uplift their innovation capability, they turned to ZXM to strengthen their agility

With a new product launch imminent, eBay engages ZXM’s Scrum coaches to help deliver their product faster to market

See how scrum coaching helped SuperChoice fast-track the start of a critical project. 

Zen Ex Machina introduces business agility methods to Origin's data management and contracts teams.

With a project deadline looming, the Department of Health turned to ZXM to deliver their outcome faster.

Redesigning a large, corporate, government website for an improved user experience.

ZXM creates an Agile PMO for Sport AUS to help manage its portfolio of strategic initiatives.

ZXM's agile coaching supported the agency to reduce their time to deliver government briefing papers from many months to just weeks.

Zen Ex Machina rescues a project at ACMA by introducing Scrum coaching and training.

ZXM improved the current value of a local business consortium by introducing a new, modern, innovative website