🗓️ Thursday 30th April 2026
🕐 14:00 - 16:00 BST
📍 Online
Many organisations don’t struggle to make good decisions, they struggle to make them in time. While delivery may appear to flow, decision-making often becomes slower, less clear, and more dependent on informal workarounds. Over time, this creates hidden inefficiencies, increased risk, and growing organisational friction.
This member only session explores decision-making as a system design challenge, rather than a question of individual capability or intent. It examines common patterns that slow organisations down including unclear ownership, over-engineered governance, and disproportionate approaches to risk.
Through practical examples and simple frameworks, we will consider how to:
- Clarify who is accountable for decisions
- Align decision-making approaches to risk and impact
- Reduce unnecessary approval layers
- Introduce guardrails that enable pace while maintaining appropriate control
The session will also introduce a lightweight, reusable approach to defining decision policies, helping organisations create environments where decisions can be made with both confidence and timeliness.
Key Takeaways:
During this session, participants will:
- Gain insight into why decision delay is often a systemic issue, not an individual one
- Recognise common organisational patterns that create unnecessary friction in decision-making
- Understand how to differentiate decisions by risk and reversibility, and adjust approaches accordingly
- Explore practical ways to simplify governance while maintaining appropriate oversight
- Learn how clearly defined roles and responsibilities improve decision flow
- Consider how techniques such as timeboxing and effective escalation can support better outcomes
- Take away a simple Decision Policy tool to support clearer, more consistent decision-making
Who should attend?
- Product and portfolio professionals
- Transformation and change leads
- Agile coaches and delivery leaders
- Governance, risk, and compliance practitioners
Event Host:
Ilana Sprongl
Ilana is a seasoned software delivery consultant and leadership coach with extensive experience supporting organizations through complex change. She helps leaders and teams build clarity, capability, and delivery confidence through contextual coaching, systems thinking, and practical, outcomes-focused guidance.
Within the Agile Business Consortium, Ilana is an active member of the Finance SIG and contributes to the broader evolution of business agility through her writing and research on governance, organizational health, internal product management, and adaptive leadership. She brings over 25 years of experience in delivery and transformation across industries, designing the conditions where people and systems can thrive.
Ilana is the author of Inside the Box: Mastering Internal Product Management and serves as Board Member & Marketing Committee Chair for Cancer Assistance Services Halton Hills.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/ilanasprongl/