We bring unique experience and provide excellent expertise
Consultancy & Interim management
We efficiently set up and help to manage any modern business project successfully
Teamwork improvement
We move team cooperation and people motivation to the highest level
Personal growth
We help to gain better position on increasingly competitive workforce landscape
FRAMEWORK
Zanote consultancy & management framework
Hybrid approach to manage complex and multidisciplinary projects
Emotions - Empowerment- Eficiency
Focus on modern team productivity
Discover soft-skills and hard techniques to extend management skills beyond standard approach
Startup like approach to manage mind-opening chaos and creative clutter
Fast & Focused project audits, business advice and personal trainings
Business oriented combination of field-proven techniques and tools
Experience
We deal with management and IT business all the time
Executive level managers
Our experience comes from years of executive level management in many technological companies.
Complex and multidisciplinary projects
We have managed scuccessfully dozens of different IT business projects for banks, insurance companies, media & telco, FMCG, public sector.
Innovative startups
We have been involved personally in the creation of innovative startups. We have created innovative software and IoT devices from scratch.
Multicultural and multinational projects
We have experienced a power of complex projects, multicultural teams and multinational organisations. We know how to deal with these mixtures.
Strategic and organisational changes
We have introduced programs of strategic change. We have managed teams experiencing a significant organisational change. We know how it tastes.
IT System architecture
Technical education and engineering background give us a deep understandig of modern IT systems. We have designed ERP-class systems, web platform, mobile apps and IoT solutions.
Methodologies, standards & frameworks.
We have worked with small and large teams. We were using both agile approach and classical methodologies. We have implemented different standards and frameworks. We are flexible. We do teamwork.
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ZANOTE TEAM
A mix of individuals brought according to your needs
soft skills
Our services support psychologists, coaches, business and project managers.
Włodzimierz Serwiński
ZANOTE OWNER
Executive manager, business and IT project manager, enterprenuer, IT system architect.
We cooperate with IT system architects, senior developers and electronic engineers.
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ZERO RISK MANAGEMENT
Hybrid approach to manage complex and multidisciplinary projects
Zero Risk Management is an approach to initiate and undertake projects based on a hybrid selection of techniques and tools coming from a broad spectrum of management methodologies (Agile, Scaled Agile SAFe, Scrum, Large Scale Scrum LeSS, V-model).
FOR WHOM:
- Organisations initiating new projects, more complex than the current ones
- Project teams changing methods of work
- Undergoing projects where significant issues and deviations occur
- Complex, multi-area and multi-team projects, agile as well as waterfall
Each method has its own optimal area of application and conditions for implementation. Each technique has its own limitations and weaknesses. Every theory must face the reality once it is going to be introduced.
Zero Risk Management underlines an individual approach to management. It focuses on a specific project in a specific organisation being undertaken by specific teams.
Zero Risk Management bases on an individual adjustment of methods and tools, coming from different methodologies, (agile as well as waterfall), according to a team maturity level and a specific project difficulty degree. A skillful hybrid approach guarantees the best results.
3E PM
Emotions-Empowerment-Eficiency. Focus on modern team productivity.
„3E PM” method is a selection of practices and tools which support modern team members in an effective self-organisation and efficient, non-conflict way of undertaking even the most challenging projects.
FOR WHOM:
- Project teams looking for work effectiveness improvements
- Project teams implementing agile methodologies or their subsets
- Leaders willing to manage teams in a better way
Emotions - they are fuel for engagement and motivation or fatigue and destruction. Empathy is a ground for an agile manifesto – empathy for developers looking for work satisfaction, empathy for end users looking for product satisfaction. Empowerment comes from selforganizing teams. Efficiency means frequent prototyping, small increments and flexible plan adjustments to reality (regardless the methodology chosen).
All modern methods base on a skilful way of utilising human feelings and emotions. Modern team effectiveness strongly relies on interpersonal relations functioning there. Empowered teams deliver better products, increase productivity and improve overall organization efficiency.
Agile methods strongly emphasises features like flexibility or collaboration. Scrum underlines a role of a self-organising teams. Agile manifesto underlines human interactions. Lean approach puts stress on a quick product validation and short learning cycle. Kanban techniques magnify transparency and visibility of work progress. “Design thinking” method is based on an excessive empathy.
„3E PM” approach focuses on a personal engagement of all team members towards the most effective way of achieving the goals, regardless the specific methodology of work.
Omni Manager
Discover soft-skills and hard techniques to extend management skills beyond standard approach
OMNI manager is an approach to modern manager personal growth and to evolve managerial skills necessary in nowadays, fast changing and multidisciplinary projects.
FOR WHOM:
- „Classical” Project managers entering the world of agile methodology
- Agile project managers willing to achieve a higher level of management
- Team members willing to become a modern Project Manager
Small and effective organisations can’t afford an excessive form or additional roles, hence the need for the OMNI Manager – the person who combines many roles in a competent way.
The traditional Project Manager role is going to be less and less attractive for modern companies. The smaller and more independent the team is the bigger the need to consolidate many roles and responsibilities in one pair of hands is.
For a modern project manager it is a custom to balance between the controller role and advisor or negotiator roles. Organisational skills must be extended by a business knowledge. Hard techniques must go hand-in-hand with soft skills.
It’s a balancing between Scrum Master and Project manager, between Product Owner and Business Developer, between a team member and a team leader, between “necessary or mandatory” and “desired or advised”.
Omni Management suits well for organisations migrating from classical waterfall-like methods towards the modern, agile methods. This approach falls into the hybrid management of complex, hierarchical projects.
Business Innovation management
Startup like approach to manage mind-opening chaos and creative clutter.
Business Innovation Management is an organised set of techniques to manage multidisciplinary teams working on innovative and pioneering products.
FOR WHOM:
- Startups introducing new products and services to the market
- Separate business divisions implementing new solutions
- Teams responsible for product development
- Organisations creating structures to manage products portfolio
Business Innovation Management – there is no Project manager, there is no Scrum Master, no Product Owner (or all of them appear?) but there is a Business Innovation Manager who balances between antagonisms in the organisation or on the market and in a mindfulness way leads a development and introduction of innovation.
Creation of innovative and pioneering products needs a mind-opening chaos and creative clutter. However, the necessity to introduce a final product to the market requires a systematic approach and internal control. The lack of usage of effective methods leads to none method in use. It means work managed by pure intuition and steered by chances taken.
Business Innovation Management (BIM) shows how to effectively take advantages of existing antagonisms and contradictions while creating new products. BIM besides hard techniques and tools uses the soft approach to mindfulness management. BIM helps to create startups effectively and shows how to create and implement innovative products.
Consultancy on demand
Fast & Focused project audits, business advice and personal trainings.
FOR WHOM:
- Executive managers looking for an independent view on the project issues.
- Project directors searching for a temporary support to manage overload or risky parts of the project.
- Project teams looking for advice how to choose and prioritize the best options to solve project issues.
- Procurement teams and Subcontractor managers interested in relation improvement with third parties.
We deliver our consultancy and our expertise on demand. We adjust our approach to solve your specific problem. Audits, quality checks, interim management, personal training and more. Contact us to tailor our services.
Multi-sense framework
Business oriented combination of field-proven techniques and tools.
There is no single way to run the business. There are many ways to manage the project. The success comes when they both match each other.
FOR WHOM:
- Management Boards looking for a comprehensive approach to support IT business change.
- Companies undertaking a large scale, complex IT projects.
- Investors willing to secure and support their IT business investments.
- Fast growing startups rapidly enlarging their portfolio of products and projects.
We have created a comprehensive set of tools and techniques to solve most common project and IT business problems.
