Agile practices used to drive digital adoption

Wow! The Agile Simulation training was really incredible. It’s not often I say of a training: “that blew my mind,” but the training did a great job of highlighting how to think differently when approaching any new task or problem. That is, how to truly consider what’s best for the program – even if this means questioning “pet requests” from a high-level stakeholder (in a completely respectful way, of course.) 

The one learning I didn’t expect was to make me realize how far outside the box one can think about a massive program. We saw a couple videos about SpaceX and Tesla that literally shocked my view of “what’s possible?” This is definitely worth setting aside an hour if you missed the training. I encourage you to listen as it will encourage you to think about large tasks with a completely new set of “eyes.”

A big thanks to Alistair for his encouragement to have us take this training and learn about agile mindset and stretch us to realize just how the “impossible” can be made, “possible,” when approached with the right mindset, focus, and bravery.

My leadership team and I attended the Agile for Leaders workshop led by Alistair.  Alistair’s ability to pivot the workshop to the specific needs of the team was itself a lesson in Agility.  Alistair brings a wealth of real-life experience, an abundance of case studies and examples, and is able to convert that into practical applications which we have been able to use immediately.

Mobilising the products, tool-sets and re-imagined behaviours of an organisation is no longer an advantage but is swiftly becoming a necessity in an evolving business world where mobility and velocity become prime business drivers for any business to meet responsiveness and speed to markets challenges.  

We at REFINITIV recognised this early in 2019, and, in parallel to the accelerated deployment of leading edge collaboration tool-sets we engaged the Corrie Partnership to help us drive adoption, migrate behaviours and enhance the emotional intelligence of the various persona's within the organisation to enable all of our users to maximise the possible benefit from the technological leaps we were taking.  

As we are embracing an Agile mindset, it was important, for us, that these values be the foundation upon which our org was to build and Alistair, who passionately drove this initiative for us for the last 12 months was up for the challenge. Enthusiastically, over the last 12 months, he has built a functional living and breathing legacy within Refinitiv that will continue to delivery growth, productivity and behavioural gains for us for years to come  

Now, 12 months down the line, our organisation has transformed, our Modern workplace vision has become a reality and we were able to meet the challenges that CovID-19 has placed upon us without impacting business process or product delivery. Such is the impact of AGILITY in its purest form.

I recommend you ask him how this should be done....! The right way...  

I hereby confirm that Mr Alistair Corrie lives up to his rock star reputation. He came into our organisation as we moved at great pace to adapt Microsoft Office 365. He assembled a group of ambassadors around the business to train up others and support their colleagues. 

Being a cynical Londoner, I wondered if this group would be like so many 'champions' in large organisations, who had a super-user flag on their desks but contributed little. How wrong I was. Alistair's personality and ability to make complex instructions pleasurable to learn and relay, had the ambassadors hooked. 

I think we have 400, and they have been invaluable in our project. I'm grateful to them, but more than anything, grateful to Alistair. He worked incredibly hard to create a team, drive engagement and help us succeed. 

He leaves a legacy of guidance, video and engaged colleagues around the globe. We couldn't have done it without him

I've had both the pleasure and privilege of working with Alistair during Refinitiv's rollout of O365 which was an enormous and very successful undertaking. 

Alistair played a huge roll in the stakeholder management and user engagement space, bringing a sense of measured calm, balanced against a strong need to deliver to a set of key milestones. 

His ability to divine user experience from complex descriptions and provide both tactical and strategic resolution to the users was a key part of fostering confidence and high adoption rates. 

Outside of the key work pieces, Alistair is also a great team player with a good sense of humour (vital in this role IMO) and leverages his great interpersonal skills to coach new members effectively. A win for any one hiring him

I don't see how my praise could say more than the results you achieved. 

I don't remember a large scale migration of end-user technology going so well in any context ever in my life. And Microsoft says it was their most successful also? Wow. 

I really enjoyed the community dynamics you instilled in our organization and your personal attention to individual needs while managing a big change.

Alistair is an experienced and accomplished Agile coach who helps teams using any Agile method because he focuses on the core principles and foundations, rather than focusing on one approach. He develops unique and innovative training and workshop materials that help people think and he adapts them for each audience. I don't think he's done the same session twice even though he's delivered it dozens of times!

Alistair always makes me think when we discuss things, and I reach better conclusions. He has been reviewing the Agile From First Principles book I am co-writing and his comments have both made the book better and given us confidence that we are writing a useful book.