Fairtrade

Fairtrade helps small-scale producers and employees on plantations in developing countries to gain a better place in the supply chain, so that they can make a living from their work and invest in a sustainable future. The market in which it operates is growing and changes in laws and regulations follow each other in rapid succession. In order to properly respond to this, Fairtrade has revised its strategy and decided to change their way of working in order to be able to effectively achieve that strategy. Summiteers supported the change to the Agile way of working by gradually rolling out the method in different teams. The philosphy here was that providing knowledge and learning by doing was necessary for further deployment in the organization. Organizing the implementation this way meant that support from Summiteers was gradually decreasing. Our approach always consisted of two steps per team. First, we created insight, overview and priority by translating the organizational goals into razor-sharp and manageable results per team. We then helped the team to really understand the way of working and coached them based on behavioral reflections. The execution of the strategy is now well underway and the organization can carry out the further rollout of the Agile method by itself.