Agile governance · audit · transformation coaching
Teams rarely get further than the system they work in.
Most agile transformations do not stall on the teams. The ceremonies run, but budgets are fixed a year ahead, priorities arrive through six channels, and managers are still judged on predictable output instead of outcome. Beyond Agile changes that system with you — governance, decision rights, funding and metrics — so agile produces business results rather than ceremonies.
Track record
Designed a value stream-based scaling framework with full Lean Portfolio Management governance, and led the training and mentoring approach across the organisation.
From technology silos to end-to-end product and platform teams: 10 chapters and 11 teams became 4 chapters and 6 teams, without losing capacity and with higher throughput.
Twelve teams and their management layer refocused on customer value, reducing overhead by more than a quarter while delivery went up.
Services
Start where the constraint is
Two of these are rare, and they are where most of the leverage sits. The rest is the craft that makes the change stick.
Governance
Agile governance that speeds decisions up
ISO- or COBIT-compliant governance models, designed with you: clear roles, explicit decision rights, and a cadence in which decisions actually get made. Compliance and adaptability in the same system.
Audit
An unbiased agile state of affairs
People, structures and content, scored on maturity dimensions and delivered as findings, do's and don'ts, and a transformation backlog you can act on. Five days to one sprint on site, with findings from day one.
Reset
When agile is not delivering results
Trained teams, running ceremonies, and still no business outcome. A reset realigns leadership, purpose and the operating system around the results you need.
Coaching · Training · Facilitation
Capability that stays behind
Coaching for agile coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and management. Training from one person to a thousand. Facilitation of big room planning and strategy sessions — with LEAT®, experiential learning built on simulation and LEGO® Serious Play.
Method
Diagnose, design together, make it measurable
Agile State of Affairs
An analysis along three perspectives — people, structures and content — scored on fixed maturity dimensions: way of working, flow and delivery, customer value, team dynamics, roles, leadership and continuous improvement. Not to produce a score, but to expose where work sits still, where decisions are made, and where structure and strategy collide.
Target operating model and governance cadence
An operating model only becomes real once it is in the calendar. The rhythm — quarterly review, big room planning, portfolio and epic sync — is designed as a proposal, with a clear question, participants and decision per event. What you adopt, you decide together.
A transformation backlog, not a plan
Do agile agile: every epic a strategic objective with a measurable OKR, every feature a visible outcome with an owner and acceptance criteria, every story a step you can test in practice. Inspectable and adjustable, instead of a plan that ages.
Coaching until the organisation carries it
Coaches, teams and leaders, with the management system moving along. A system you let go of slides back to its old habits — even a top team keeps its coach — so the work is to build internal coaching capability that carries the maintenance itself.
Who you get
Martijn Oost
Beyond Agile is my practice. My lean foundation was laid over fifteen years inside a Japanese automotive manufacturer, where I grew from developer to project lead and lived the move from waterfall to iterative work from the inside — Kaizen, PDCA and A3 as daily practice rather than theory. Since then I have guided transformations in telecom, public broadcasting, publishing, international rail, government digital services and retail — from scale-ups to organisations of several thousand people. Client names on request, under NDA.
I work people-first: facilitation, experiential learning and coaching from the work floor to the boardroom, with measurable objectives as the compass. Agile and Lean are the toolkit, not the goal.
- PSPO I · PSM I & II · LeSS Practitioner · SAFe · LEGO® Serious Play facilitator
- Founder of LEAT® — Learning Experiential Agile Transformation
- Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (good passive knowledge)
- Based in Grimbergen, half an hour from Brussels
What people say
“The LEGO City simulation was a great, great training session, putting agile at scale and way of thinking/collaborating into real practice.”
Ivor MicallefHead of Entertainment Product
“Learning about the ‘[client] Agile Way of Working’ in a very FUN way!”
Joke MatheusPeople Partner
“It was a very nice workshop! You had enough interaction with the participants and you were very receptive to the questions and comments.”
Suzanne van DamAgile Coach
“This was such a great experience! Thanks a lot!”
Peter StevensAgile Tester
Free governance review
A read on your governance, at no cost
A short review of how decisions, funding and priorities move through your organisation, and where that blocks your teams. You get the findings whether or not we work together.
Contact
Have something in mind?
Tell me what is not moving in your organisation. I answer personally, usually the same day.
- info@beyondagile.be
- Phone
- +32 495 12 61 78
- Address
- Wilgenbaan 69b
1850 Grimbergen
Belgium
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