Who We Are
Our Story
“Most of what we call management is about making it difficult for people to do their jobs,”
- Peter Drucker
We are more than just agilists. We are experienced delivery and change practitioners. In the 20th century, we grew and learned the methods and practices of stage gated sequential project management. We have found that traditional management is broken. It can’t and doesn’t work in the VUCA* world we now live in. We recognise there are many methods and frameworks. We have used most of them. We have seen many organisations try to change and know that leadership is absolutely key to success. We know from experience that for Business Agility to succeed it needs true leaders and management to cohere in a consistent way and to create engaged employees.
Technology and product innovation is everywhere. Leadership and management innovation and performance is less so.
We promote leadership thinking that is more values based, more autonomous, more transparent, and addresses the whole organisation. We are about changing mindsets. We address leadership, delivery, financing, commercial, and more in our training courses.
* VUCA = volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous
How We Roll
Being great enablers is how we roll at QRV. Our culture is a constantly evolving practice. We bring a lot of learning, passion, creativity, and initiative. We see way beyond Agile.
We think about people differently. We apply systems thinking but equally we know that humans ultimately interpret and deliver value.
We facilitate the creation of engaged employees who are more innovative to provide better solutions and are more productive and make better decisions.
It is well known that high engagement is correlated to competitive advantage and with better stock market performance.
Our People
We are practitioners, mentors, coaches, facilitators, trainers, and life-long learners.
Our expertise is steeped in Change Management, Lean-Agile Ways of Working, Organisational and Cultural Design, Systems Thinking, Tooling, and Programme and Project Management and Delivery.
Phil Jones
Phil is a business transformation consultant with extensive experience in the areas of business agility, executive and leadership coaching, Lean-Agile contracting, smart commercial and procurement, functional change, programme management and benefits realisation management.
He is able to accelerate business value and competitive advantage by implementing true business agility using agile contracting techniques, executive coaching and product flow analytics.
He has valuable technical skills developed through managing large scale portfolios and programmes in the areas of research, cyber security, software, communications systems, IT infrastructure, desktop systems and service delivery into a wide range of military, government and commercial clients. He is an objective platform who can offer trusted advice on processes, techniques and methods with extensive knowledge of best practices.
Phil has been a project, programme, portfolio and service delivery manager in industry with some of the UKs leading suppliers including Babcock, Airbus, QinetIQ, Capita, Elbit Systems and CGI.
In 2007 he reached an epiphany when he began to deliver business change, solutions, outcomes and benefits more effectively through Lean-Agile techniques. Phil became an independent consultant delivering complex cyber-physical solutions as well as business transformation to a wide range of government and commercial clients.
Since 2014 he has become a more effective consultant, leader and facilitator by developing skills for mitigating the risks of resistance to change through managing the people side of change.
In 2019 he became a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) Practice Consultant(SPC). He is able to coach and implement full lifecycle Lean-Agile transformation. He is licensed to deliver SAFe® courses and has an extensive track record of delivering benefit through training.
Akin Oladoja
Akin has a background in Digital Transformation and has successfully delivered transformation programmes in the financial, retail and defence sectors. He is a SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) and coach and active practitioner with a solid background in traditional project management and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Akin has helped large organisations such as the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and MBDA transition to Agile as well as the adoption of effective agile tooling. Akin has implemented JIRA, Confluence and Digital.ai (Agility) to support new ways of working for clients. He is a true ‘superuser’.
He is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Kansan University, Scrum Alliance, Scrum Org, International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®).
Akin brings a wealth of experience of facilitating PI (big room) Planning and problem solving workshops.
Graeme Dykes
Graeme is a SFIA Level 7 Freelance Business Consultant with over 35 years domestic and international experience in all aspects of the IT industry. Certified CSIO and GDPR Practitioner providing strategic security and data protection guidance. Graeme often works as a Non Executive Director to Boards in a wide range of governance and business critical areas, especially organisational risk management, planning and preparation for Cyber Essentials Certification, GDPR readiness, data handling/management also programme and project management. He has had many lead roles on Government flagship programs and complex recruitment campaigns. He is an experienced Agilist and Cyber Security Advisor, Programme and Project Manager. He is qualified and experienced in Prince2, MSP & ITIL.