Richard Dolman

Enterprise Agility Transformation Coach
Agile Velocity

Expert Business Agility Coach

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About Richard

Richard Dolman is an enterprise agility coach and trainer with Agile Velocity, a company that helps organizations accelerate their agility. He has over 20 years of experience in practicing and teaching agile and lean methods across various industries and stages of growth. He is passionate about helping people and organizations unlock their hidden potential and partner with awesome people who inspire and challenge him daily.

Richard is a certified enterprise coach (CEC), certified agile leader (CAL) educator, path to agility facilitator, ORGANIC agility professional, ICAgile certified professional in agile coaching (ICP-ACC), certified LeSS practitioner (CLP), PMI agile certified practitioner (PMI-ACP), and scaled agile framework program consultant (SPC5). He is also a board member and treasurer of Agile Denver, a non-profit organization that promotes and supports agility in the greater Denver community.

Richard has a B.B.A. in management and information systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is based in Denver, Colorado, and can be reached at richard.dolman@agilevelocity.com or richard@mollitiam.biz. You can also follow him on Twitter @RichardDolman.

Published Articles & Case Studies

Autonomy with Alignment: Effective Approaches for Transformations

If your organization is planning an Agile transformation, you may be asking, or be expected to answer, the question of whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach.  Centralizing suggests assigning ownership and control to one or a few, while decentralizing means distributing responsibility and ownership to a broad group of people.

What to Expect in An Agile Transformation

Enterprise Agility Coach Richard Dolman shares thoughts on the things leaders should watch for during an Agile transformation, based on lessons observed and learned in leading multiple organizations through change.

Applying STATIK to stand up a new Scrum team – Richard Dolman – Oct 2020

Applying the STATIK approach leverages the first principle of the Kanban method – “Start with what you do, or know, now”, in order to help avoid over-thinking how existing work, structures and/or roles “fit” within Scrum.

 

 

 

 

Empowering High-Performance Teams

Maximizing Impact: Measuring Development Team Effectiveness

Applying STATIK to Launch New Teams or Re-align Existing Teams

This approach is based on the first principle of the Kanban method – “Start with what you do, or know, now”. Whether the team intends to apply the Kanban method, Scrum, or some other approach, STATIK serves as an effective model to establishing a team’s purpose and way of working

 

 

Applying STATIK to Stand Up a New Team or to Re-orient an Existing One

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban) can be a great way to help teams get up and running quickly, or to re-align or re-form existing teams, as a “Team Chartering” event. This approach is based on the first principle of the Kanban method – “Start with what you do, or know, now”.