McKenna Consultants Ltd

27/08/2026

Some agile ceremonies are more valuable than ever in the AI era. Others are just habit wearing a lanyard. Our honest take on what to keep, what to redesign, and what to retire:

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Not all Agile ceremonies survive the AI era. Some were designed to do things AI now does faster and better. Here is an honest assessment of which to keep, which to redesign, and which to kill.

21/08/2026

The most persuasive slide of the week wasn't ours. It was theirs.

The intake document every new initiative had to survive — page after page of approvals just to enter the backlog. We put it on the wall next to a one-page business case and asked one question: how lean dare we go? Nobody defends a document like that once it's in daylight.

That's one of three takeaways from our three-day portfolio pilot with a US manufacturer. The rest — including why the momentum needs a named owner — here:

https://www.mckennaagileconsultants.com/blog/strategy-ex*****on-portfolio-pilot-three-days/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog-strategy-ex*****on&utm_content=strategy-ex*****on-portfolio-pilot-three-days

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How a three-day strategy ex*****on workshop with a US smart-building manufacturer produced a working portfolio — canvas, OKRs, WSJF, ADKAR — plus three takeaways you can use.

20/08/2026

Your board doesn't care about velocity. It cares about faster value, better quality, happier customers and lower cost. Here's how to measure your agile transformation in the language that protects its budget:

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Move beyond velocity and ceremony compliance. A practitioner's framework for measuring agile transformation success in terms executives and boards understand.

17/08/2026

How do you align 2,300 people across the UK, US and Asia around one roadmap?

Over 18 months with NCC Group's Global Technical Services, we ran six hybrid Big Room Planning events and made WSJF the standard for prioritisation. The result: faster decisions, visible progress, and scarce capacity focused on the highest-impact work.

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13/08/2026

You can buy the best OKR platform on the market and still miss every objective. The software sets the goals; it doesn't execute them. Here's the ex*****on engine that actually closes the gap:

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OKR platforms are goal-setting tools. They are not ex*****on tools. The gap between the two is where most OKR programmes die — and AI is the bridge.

06/08/2026

Ambition is rarely the problem with an agile transformation — a clear starting point is. Our free 9-Box Implementation Template turns a vague aspiration into a plan you can act on this quarter:

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Download our free Agile Implementation Template used in real UK agile transformation workshops. 9 practical boxes to plan your agile journey, from vision to 90-day action. Built by experienced agile consultants.

31/07/2026

They didn't ask us for a framework. They asked us for a way to start.

Three days on site in Philadelphia with a US smart-building manufacturer — engineers by heart, now moving faster in software — and we walked out with a working portfolio: two canvases and a combined mission, enterprise OKRs the leaders wrote themselves, a WSJF-scored Kanban of twenty initiatives, and an ADKAR change plan with named champions. Strategy ex*****on, not strategy theatre. The full write-up, plus three takeaways you can steal:

https://www.mckennaagileconsultants.com/blog/strategy-ex*****on-portfolio-pilot-three-days/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog-strategy-ex*****on&utm_content=strategy-ex*****on-portfolio-pilot-three-days

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How a three-day strategy ex*****on workshop with a US smart-building manufacturer produced a working portfolio — canvas, OKRs, WSJF, ADKAR — plus three takeaways you can use.

30/07/2026

The quickest way to stall AI adoption is to make one central team responsible for all of it. Build champions across the organisation instead. Here's the model we use with clients:

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The AI-first Champion Model distributes AI capability across your organisation, reducing dependency on centralised teams and accelerating transformation.

23/07/2026

A good chunk of the OKR sets we review are really KPI lists in disguise. The two do very different jobs: one drives change, the other monitors health. Here's how to use each (with help from a Disneyland road trip):

https://buff.ly/nwEeAob

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OKRs drive change. KPIs monitor health. Learn when to use each, how to connect them, and why the best organisations use both — explained through a Disneyland road trip.

20/07/2026

From 56% to 77% in twelve months.

When we first assessed this leading US donor-advised fund provider, OKR Health scored 47%. A year of training, squad roll-out and embedded coaching later: 80% — and an overall score 14 points above the global benchmark. How a mission-led nonprofit turned strategy into a genuine management tool:

https://buff.ly/P5K6ljx

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