Case Studies

Case Studies

Making Waterfall Agile

At a former employer, I was brought in to run an IT program in support of the first SaaS offering Symantec was engaging in. Project had a tight timeline, made tighter by a project freeze due to other initiatives.

We were required to use waterfall. Yet I knew the value of Agile. How to address?

Using CBPM (Commitment-Based Project Management), a technique developed at Intel, I taught, coach, and led the five IT teams to plan and execute our program. Our commitments were met with no heroics. Internal customer was very pleased.

Team members proceeded to use the approach in other projects.

Leadership coaching client

During one of our Duke Leadership Programs (DLP), one of my clients was the CEO of a mid-size firm in Virginia. He had a major presentation to make to his board of directors (BOD) the following week.

Leveraging the DLP instruction and my coaching, my client successfully delivered his presentation to the BOD, driving a major change in the organization. 

Driving change is what leaders do. Coaching is one of the ways to enable such change driving.

Transforming IT

At a prior employer, I found myself with an IT team that had had little leadership. The applications team worked in a haphazard manner. The team was overloaded and projects were going nowhere.

Through my leadership and coaching, we first implemented Kanban to get control of the demand. Kanban allowed the team to focus on what was important, reduced the noise, and let them learn the new technical skills needed to succeed where we were going. 

I provided the protection by handling all demands for service as well as any interruptions. 

The team became a high performing team, delivering product every six weeks using Scrum.

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