Hired to sustain and grow in-process efforts in Agile mindset, process, and practices for four data warehouse teams. Focused on making department work visible and putting actionable metrics in place to improve the group’s ability to flow value to customers.

• Co-created and delivered training on Agile fundamentals that established a baseline understanding to support future growth.
• Designed, implemented, and administrated a Kanban pull system with flow metrics in Jira that created unprecedented visibility into work being done, hidden impediments, and opportunities for improvement.
• Coached and mentored teams and leadership in healthy Agile mindset and practice to support a transition to more collaborative, effective, efficient, and predictable ways of working.

Hired to bring outside experience, perspective, and stability to a growing Agile practice. Collaborated to make department work visible and improve the organization’s ability to flow value to customers.

• Organized, designed, coordinated, and facilitated an Agile Community of Practice with 18+ members that resulted in increased ability to support delivery of business outcomes.
• Managed a complex effort to design and migrate 30+ teams into Azure DevOps, improving the ability to coordinate work at scale, surface problems early, and make data-driven decisions.
• Gained insight into ground-level work that informed decision-making at scale by providing guidance for five teams in chartering, Agile training, meeting design/facilitation, etc.

Hired to relaunch Agile in the Digital Solutions department after a previously failed implementation.

• Created a strong foundation for iterative web development and on-going support by designing and delivering a two-day “Agile Team Startup” training workshop.
• Created an environment for team development and continuous improvement through training and certifications, outside coaching, innovation/learning time, team-building events, and diagnostic tools that increased employee retention, idea generation, and process efficiency.
• Reduced release cycle time by 75% through efficient and automated DevOps practices.

Hired to launch, stabilize, and accelerate two new master data management teams, while also strengthening the overall Agile community.

• Implemented an advanced Kanban solution to help a historically chaotic service team achieve fast, flexible workflow and improved responsiveness to customer needs. This was regularly praised in the organization as an example of a transparent, predictable, effective value delivery process.
• Brought thought leadership, organization, and facilitation to a 25-person Agile Community of Practice to create a stronger team dynamic and inspire learning among peer group members.
• Led a comparison study of Agile PPM tools that influenced the technical team to address gaps in tool functionality, removing several process impediments.

Hired to implement an Agile way of working for a growing software development studio focused on launching a AAA PC game to market.

• Created an environment for successful iterative software development by instructing and mentoring five development teams in Scrum.
• Improved communication, process, and removed impediments to progress by facilitating regular feedback sessions between developers and studio executives.