Dyno Therapeutics, a pioneer in AI-driven gene therapy, faced a critical scaling challenge that threatened to slow its innovation. As the company grew, its brilliant teams—spanning machine learning, data science, and biology—were trapped in functional silos. Handoffs were slow, coordination was complex, and rigid plans were out-of-sync with the reality of R&D. We worked with …
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 …
Abstract This article outlines the agile journey of a Corporate Marketing group in a major enterprise software technology vendor. We will explore the business drivers, the actions we took, and what we learned while applying SAFe to help this group achieve business agility through the application of agile marketing and beyond. Hopefully, these lessons can …
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 …
Trained and advised leaders and teams in the product and engineering organization at CyberArk on their scaling journey – leveraging product-stream Kanban systems to understand and accelerate flow across teams and then supporting/coaching the viral growth of Kanban systems by individual teams. Coached the organization’s leaders in the process of reorganizing around value – moving …
HP Software – Helped multiple product groups located in Israel, Germany, India, China, Ukraine go beyond shallow agility towards real Lean/Agile/Scrum/Lean Startup.
Siemens SES / Vistagy – Accompany a legacy highly-complex line of business located in Boston in transforming to cross-functional scrum teams with real self-organization, storming and all, managers as coaches, small stories, MMFs/MVP thinking. Software Sales Business/IT Ops – Business Agility – leveraging SAFe to help accelerate integrated business/technology GTM plays (leveraging SFDC, O2O tools, …