Still slow after “going Agile”?

You’ve poured money into frameworks, certifications, and process upgrades—yet delivery still drags, priorities blur, and no one can prove that product & tech spending moves the business forward.

Every strategic project feels like full gas in neutral: meetings multiply, hand-offs slow decisions, and the organization loses confidence in its own ability to execute.

That’s the moment clients call me..

The Agility Breakthrough

One focused engagement to expose what’s stuck — and design a system that actually delivers.

Most organizations don’t need another methodology. They need a way to turn product and technology into a true business engine again. The Agility Breakthrough is a short, high-impact diagnostic that finds where your operating system leaks speed, alignment, or value.

After a few intensive co-creation days, you’ll walk away with:

  1. A clear picture of where strategy and investment are misaligned
  2. Key constraints to effective delivery of value and the impact they have on your business results
  3. The 2–3 strategic moves that will create the most leverage
  4. A pragmatic roadmap to high-impact improvement

Typical breakthrough opportunities:

  • Accelerate innovation cycles by up to 80% through the creation of strategically focused multi-disciplinary teams of teams that leverage extreme transparency to rapidly inspect and adapt.
  • Restore 90%+ delivery predictability (and organizational trust) by leveraging a radical flow diet and derisking through fast feedback.
  • Realign product and tech spend to strategic priorities by aligning and restructuring around outcome-based goals and guardrails at the product and portfolio level.
  • Address Agile Theater fatigue and risk of process breakdown to converge towards an agility operating model that teams and leaders are proud of. 
  • Cut months of downstream time to market delay  by unifying product, engineering, and commercial/revenue teams through business agility techniques. 
Ready For a Breakthrough?

After the Breakthrough

The Agility Breakthrough ends with a clear roadmap of high-leverage interventions—the focused moves that will deliver the biggest business impact with the least friction.

Across organizations, these interventions vary in form, but the accomplishments tend to look strikingly similar:

  • Sharper focus. Strategic portfolios trimmed and realigned so investment and capacity match the outcomes that matter.
  • Faster delivery. Cross-functional work simplified; release cycles cut by 30–60 percent.
  • Visible ROI. Leaders can finally trace product and tech spend to business results.
  • Empowered teams. Decisions made closer to the work; fewer hand-offs, more ownership.
  • Innovation traction. AI and next-gen initiatives tested and scaled like products, not science projects.

Each company’s mix is different, but the trajectory is the same:
From busy and uncertain → to focused, evidence-driven, and fast.

Helping Leaders improve traction and outcomes in diverse and complex environments

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. Very often, leaders approach me when they want to leverage agility in domains beyond the beaten path and are cautious of both “by the book” dogma as well as losing the intent when customizing/watering down the ideas. 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 …

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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 …

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Improving BioTech Incubator Collaboration, Traction and Agility

M:M Bio, a collaborative ecosystem of oncology and immuno-oncology biotechs based in Oxford, wanted to revolutionize its approach to drug discovery and R&D. With companies ranging from early-stage discovery to clinical development, the organization needed to improve how teams worked together, manage long lead times, and pivot quickly based on experimental data—all while keeping their …

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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 …

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Computer Associates – Marketing Agility at Scale

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 …

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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 …

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CyberArk – Achieving Real Agility at a Scaleup Building Hard-core CyberSecurity Products

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 …

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