About Andrew Francois
Andrew Francois is an Agile Coach who has been working within the ATO’s Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence and various other Agile roles in the ATO over the past 8 years. Andrew has worked with many Release Trains and Agile Teams in the ATO to help them adopt better ways to deliver value utilising agile principles and practices.
Andrew’s passion is building high performing teams of empowered individuals who understand what success looks and feels like, and that the roots of team success are nourished by the diversity of its individual members.
Andrew was raised and continues to reside on the North of Brisbane with his wife and three children. When he isn’t coaching teams to apply agile methods, he’s waist deep in Lego, building worlds with his young family or pursuing his (pipe) dream of being the first 44 year old NBA rookie.
Integrated Scaling Up!
with Andrew Ramsden, Leadership and Agile Coach, Australian Taxation Office
Learning to take the best from all perspectives in the ATO.
Join the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on their 10-year Agile journey, starting with grassroots initiatives and scaling Agile rapidly from 1-13 Release Trains in a year. Witness their evolution as they reflected and adapted creating their unique ATO Scaled Agile (ATOSA) Method. Hear firsthand from two Coaches from the ATO’s Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) about the challenges faced in creating and applying an Enterprise Scaled Agile Model within real-world constraints. Gain insights into the ATO’s Agile practices, driving improved team performance and tangible business outcomes. Discover where a one-size-fits-all approach breaks down, and how they learned from that and moved forward. This talk provides an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the ATO’s Agile transformation story, including tensions, victories, and key learnings applicable to large organisations in both public and private sectors.