DIVERSE Experience
I work with diverse companies ranging from startups, incubators, accelerators, and scale-ups to some of the world’s most prominent technology and consumer brands. I leverage this diverse experience to help my clients find the right path for their agility journey. Here are some of my recent projects:
Bringing Business, Clinical Operations and IT together to deliver faster better Business Outcomes at Spectrum Healthcare
Overview Spectrum Healthcare, a multispecialty medical practice in Maine, wanted to improve operational efficiency across surgical operations, quality, marketing, clinical operations, physiotherapy champions, compliance, medical staff services, billing, and IT. IT, clinical and operational leaders aimed to enhance collaboration across departments and improve their ability to drive operational changes effectively. When/Why Spectrum was looking at …
From Fingerprints to Frameworks: NEC’s Agile Journey with Scrum and Kanban
The journey for NEC with Scrum, Kanban, and agility illustrates the effectiveness of these practices in transforming complex, real-world environments. By starting small, defining their products, having greater focus by having teams understand what their products were, and engaging leadership in transparent decision-making, NEC addressed immediate operational challenges and laid a strong foundation for sustained …
Molecule to Medicine(M2M) Bio
Applied agile / Scrum / Kanban within a Biotech ecosystem involving a platform and multiple research and clinical applications. “agile is now a normal part of how we operate.” Check out this Scrum.org podcast episode on how I helped M:M Bio use Scrum, Kanban and Agile Practices for R&D Projects in the Oncology & Immuno-oncology …
Hansa BioPharma
Coaching the leadership team of a “commercial franchise” on leveraging agile techniques and principles to improve alignment, empowerment, and risk management when introducing a new revolutionary drug to market.
Dyno Therapeutics
I helped the Dyno team evolve their approach to agility beyond mechanical agile towards principled agility applied both to the Tech organization (including Machine-learning, BigData) as well as the Biology teams (creating virus/capsids) , G&A, and the executive team. This included Professional Scrum training, workshops to agree on the next iteration of agility at Dyno …
Gillette – Designing and Productizing a New Razor with Scrum
Summary I partnered with Gillette’s R&D and Commercial leadership to leverage Scrum for designing the Gillette Exfoliating Razor. This initiative included several multi-disciplinary teams involving technical, research, and commercial teams collaborating on one scaled Scrum borrowing patterns from the Nexus framework. Using Scrum to quickly learn and validate on the key leap of faith assumptions …
Aras
Aras’ collaboration with Yuval Yeret propelled them towards agile excellence, yielding rapid innovation, enhanced collaboration, and market responsiveness. The transformation, orchestrated by Yeret, revolutionized Aras’ product development, quality, and operational efficiency.
Computer Associates – Marketing Agility at Scale
Standing up Agility at Scale for a marketing organization involving multiple marketing and sales functions organized in multi-disciplinary teams empowered to own their funnel and run fast iterative cycles to deliver and optimize marketing/sales plays. The teams collaborated as an “Agile Marketing Train” to improve alignment and synergy by marketing and selling the product portfolio …
Idemia – Using Agile to Improve Delivery
Idemia builds the systems you experience when you get your Driver’s license and go through the TSA Precheck lines. I helped Idemia leverage agile to help it deliver customer programs and build its future products. This included standing up team-level agility in several groups, standing up a lean agile center-of-excellence, organizing stable SAFe ARTs organized …
