ABOUT our book

When we wrote this book, we wanted to ensure that we portrayed the landscape of governance from what we have seen organizations experience and, more importantly, the foibles and frustrations of holding onto the methods of the past while attempting to move forward.
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It’s our explicit hope that we provide you with the compass to guide you to a better way to enable your organization to deal with the new now and adapt to the next problems the future might throw at you.

‍Tony & Phil

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what we want

Our Mission

Having been at the forefront to agility adoption at scale over nearly 40 years combined effort, we see the same patterns playing out in most organisations. All start with best intent and inspirational visions, and then get bogged down as their current systems and ways of working exert pressure and draw the change agents back to the core before benefits are realised and the change can sustain.

This plays out almost universally in the way we govern the work. No snowflake is that unique! People are people, and organisations are about people and the evolution of their interactions. The world is always changing so we need a system of governance that transcends the variety of problems we solve, and that flexes with emergence.
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We aim to provide suport and learning to those on this journey, showing the way you can approach governance and assurance differently- and truly achieve the goal of agility.

Work

Making the workplace better for humans - remote, in the office or hybrid

Value

Helping Organisations realise the promises of transformation

Society

Accelerating customer outcomes exponentially to benefit society

Tony Ponton

Over the years (let's just say I am into my third decade of working with agility), I have been active as a contributor and leader in the Australian and Global Agile communities and am one of the co-creators, co-authors, and VP of “The Remote Agility Framework”( remote:af).

Those years of working with agility have provided me with many experiences (both working in and leading) across multiple organisational change programs, transformations, agile implementations and leadership changes.In between helping organisations change the world of work,

I co-chair one of the world's premier Agile podcasts, "The Agile Revolution. Host the YouTube channel "All the Remote Things" and serve as a Heart of Agile guide for the global Heart of Agile movement.

Phil Gadzinski

Though not as old as Tony, I have worked extensively with Alistair Cockburn, one of the co-signatories of the original agile manifesto, including in the creation of the Heart of Agile, which is his approach to getting agile back to the essence of agility, including being one of the first globally recognized guides, of which I am still active.

Tony and I are both Global Heart of Agile Guides. Most recently, with Andrew Blain and team, I helped to co-create the initial Remote Agility Framework. I was also recently recognized as an Executive Guide in Operating Model Design.Tony and I have worked together over many years; we’ve contributed to and given many talks, particularly on this topic of Agile Governance, and we are both actively engaged and recognized as leaders in the agile industry in Australia.

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