New Zealand
I've worked for a decade in various industries, from team level practice through to organizational transformation, guiding and demonstrating lean and agile principles. As the Creator of Dysfunction Mapping, I've helped uplift thousands of agile practitioners worldwide, giving them a mechanism to find and solve the problems that matter, and demonstrate their value in a transparent, measurable way. My Linkedin content, personal brand and social media comments are not made on behalf of any previous or current employer. This is where I think out loud, don't take it too seriously.
Project Manager for a finance data integration project as part of a new acquisition. Responsible for leading the planning, coordination, governance, and execution readiness for the migration and integration of financial and operational data into core enterprise systems across a regulated energy distribution environment. The programme involved complex cross-functional dependencies across finance, operations, asset management, procurement, and enterprise systems including SAP, Maximo, and FinPro, with timelines driven by an uncertain acquisition settlement date. Established the operational delivery model, rebuilt the migration planning approach, coordinated cross-workstream dependencies, and led the ongoing governance and escalation process to ensure readiness for migration execution at short notice. Successfully transitioned the programme from an ambiguous and high-risk planning state to a fully tested and execution-ready migration capability.
Self Employed Scrum Trainer, delivering private and public classes, online and in-person
As the Founder of Honest Agile, my goal was to have an impact on agile practice globally by creating world class training materials that help teams find and solve the problems that matter. Through Dysfunction Mapping, I have created a tool used by thousands of people around the world. I have been keynote speaker, I have created, marketed and sold workshops both privately and publicly, and I've created learning content via articles, videos and community of practice events. I've spoken on podcasts, been invited to meetups and internal training days, and ultimately now created a small community of both trainers and practitioners who are having an impact, globally.
As an Agile Coach at Aldermore, I helped a group of 9 teams working on a new banking product to come together as unified team-of-teams. By introducing Nexus and acting as it's Nexus Scrum Master, I taught and supported the Nexus Integration Team to bring them away from velocity based planning and toward regular integration, and inspection of working software. Working with two other coaches, and a team of Scrum Masters, we collectively supported a shift to product thinking in place of project based planning, and laid the groundwork for incremental delivery in place of a big bang release.