EFFECTUATE.IT
Discover, experiment and improve your own agile model :
the great fit between your
PEOPLE, PRODUCTS & PROCESSES
Data and insights on your agile change and transformation initiatives
Effectuate.it is a market-network, a collaborative platform based on Google’s Design Sprint Methodology where vetted and trusted agile experts and facilitators offers their unique skills, tools, talents and services to help organisations and their teams find their own organisational agile model. We are building a trusted ecosystem of talents, tools, workshops, trainings, experiences and experts to enable your organization and your team members to have evidence on what works and what doesn’t work, to have real data and insights on your agile change and transformation initiatives, to have better insights, to understand and to be proactive in the face of tackling uncertainty.
Agile Product Management
Product Discovery
MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
Scrum
Kanban
Sprint 0
Agile Product Management
Design Sprint
Continuous Innovation
DevOps
Evidence-based management
Cross-functional teams
Co-creation
Lean Startup
Effectuation
and much more....
What is holding you back from doing the best work of your lives?
We have learned the hard way that most ventures are built in a space in which the future is not only unknown, but unknowable. Find me one company or team that knew exactly what it was going to be in every way, shape, and form from the onset. It doesn’t exist. That’s because they are not stationary ships. They are not constructed at a table in advance, rolled-out in a series of phases and then brought to life in exact form. They evolve over time, they grow, they gather feedback, they achieve, they miss, they adjust, and they learn. They look inside, outside, and beyond for inspiration to better know who they are, what they are capable of and who can help them along the way.
We shouldn’t focus on outputs, but on outcomes
Resistance to change
Ego and agile don’t mix
Management feels threatened
WHAT WE OFFER
Most teams (from Startups and Big companies too) usually create their innovation products or process internally, with a small amount of people and therefore lose a lot of perspectives, opportunities and efficiency. After several years of experience in facilitation, training and well, doing it ourselves, we found a way to make our clients tackle those challenges, get out of the building and co-create their initiative with the people that will make a difference, either inside or outside their organisations.
START WITH ONE PROJECT
Let’s re-imagine your business. Build for change. Embrace the possibilities.
YOUR PEOPLE
Collaborative work is hard, we need effectual thinking to create fast learning teams
YOUR PRODUCTS
Rapid changes in markets and competition, we need evidence-based product discovery
YOUR PROCESS
Digital revolution : new business models, we need new empirical ways of working
WHAT ARE DESIGN SPRINTS?
The Design Sprint is a proven methodology for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users. Design Sprints quickly align teams under a shared vision with clearly defined goals and deliverables. Ultimately, it is a tool for developing a hypothesis, prototyping an idea, and testing it rapidly with as little investment as possible in as real an environment as possible.
The Design Sprint follows six phases: Understand, Define, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Validate.
Image Source: Design Sprint Methodology by Google
Design Sprints for Any Challenge
The Design Sprint methodology can be used to solve all kinds of challenges. Best known for injecting speed and innovation into product development, the methodology can also be used to develop new processes, create or update a brand, or even define the vision for an organization’s impact in the world.
Google Improves the Hiring Process
Including people from multiple disciplines meant it was easier to understand the broader implications suggested changes would have on the process as a whole.
Headspace Explores a New Audience
Was it possible to cut out the middlemen and simply deliver maps from satellite to smart phones and, if so, could the new process be as effective as the old?
H&M Prototypes a Google Assistant Experience
After the sprint, we had a brand persona, a concept we saw potential in and initial user testing to back it up.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
We truly believe in learning by doing.
Your team members pair with Effectuate.it network members, working side-by-side as much as possible to collectively build a great product. Or change your team practices. Or maybe improve one of your processes. We practice co-facilitation, agile coaching, rapid prototyping and most of all, validated learning. One result is rapid de-risking of your initiative by collecting data, feedback, and evidence. The other result is that your team is now ready to do the same high-quality work all on its own.
STEP 1 : WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE?
A People, Product or Process Design Sprint
Start your initiative with one of our agent : on what agile aspect you want to work? PEOPLE, PRODUCT or PROCESS? What are the objectives? Timeline? Budget?
STEP 2 : HOW MANY DESIGN SPRINT DAYS?
Between 2 to 5 Sprint Days
Determine the type and series of activities and deliverable wanted, with the help of our agent. Choose between the recommended and available experts and tools to complete your initiative plan and agenda
STEP 3 : Need any add-ons?
Trainings, coaching, assessments
Determine the type and series of activities and deliverable wanted, with the help of our agent. Choose between the recommended and available experts and tools to complete your initiative plan and agenda
STEP 4 : PROGRESSION
Deliverables, documentation and dashboards
Track, manage, adjust and visualise the progression of the initiative
STEP 5 : RINSE & REPEAT
Rinse and repeat with your team on the same subject or another one. After one Sprint with us, you will have the basis of knowledge to be able to continue by yourself.
OUR CLIENTS
OUR VISION
Our vision is to disrupt the traditional and inefficient agile consultancy service industry to diminish the gap between the agile aspiration (more than 90% of businesses want to become agile) and the agile accomplishment (less than 10% truly are). Our main mistake is forgetting that Agile is not the goal itself but only the means and that it is human-centered first not only just about processes and tools.
We shouldn’t focus on outputs, but on outcomes. Agile isn’t just simply a way to know and to do things better; Agile is also a way of being and a way of becoming. One size does not fit all, one framework is not the answer. Let’s not perpetuate the illusion that Agile is just a tool that you can buy. When it comes to Agile, nothing is set in stone. Your people, products and processes are unique; your agile model and practices should be too.
OUR TEAM
Marie-Andrée Roger
Elsa Bruyère
Co-Founder, CIO; Agile, Open and Continuous Innovation Facilitator and Coach
Sylvain Éthier
Co-Founder, CCO, Experience Architect, Design Thinking Facilitator
Erika Morin
Paola Diaz
Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager
Carlos Garcia
Social Media and Communication Coordinator