Change is difficult for most organizations and teams, especially when it comes to getting buy-in for agile philosophies and frameworks. There are lots of challenges including:

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• How teams estimate their work in an iterative, incremental manner

• How they maintain a sustainable pace of work

• How they balance delivering working software and addressing technical debt

• How they resolve conflicts within the team

• Being able to foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning

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I can help your teams develop an understanding and follow the principles of Agile and Scrum, facilitate meetings, and remove any obstacles that impede their progress. I will help them work efficiently and effectively towards achieving their goals and your business outcomes. 

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Having solid product ownership is equally as important as having great development teams and competent ScrumMasters. Many agile projects fail because of a lack of clear vision, lack of customer focus, product owners who are not available to their teams, product owners who are indecisive about necessary trade-offs, and product owners who are not data-driven. Product owners should:

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• Have a deep understanding of customer needs

• Empower their teams

• Be collaborative

• Be adaptable to changing priorities

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As a product owner, I can act as your voice and the voice of your customer to maximize the value of your products by working closely with your development teams, so that your features and requirements are prioritized, clearly understood, and respond to market needs.  

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Projects are hard and are only getting harder in increasingly complex environments both internally and externally to organizations. Most projects fail due to a variety of factors including, but definitely not limited to:

 

• Unclear scope and objectives

• Lack of communication

• Poor risk identification and management

• Unrealistic and uninformed schedules 

 

I can help ensure your projects are completed on time and within budget, by building realistic project plans, managing, monitoring, and communicating progress, risks, and issues to help achieve your business ROI and desired outcomes.

Things get even more complex when you have multiple related projects trying to achieve a larger overall objective. Those efforts need coordination and continuous alignment. Someone needs to oversee the overall strategy, budget, schedule, and identify the dependencies and risks that span across all of the projects in flight. 

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I can help work closely with project managers to ensure that each project is on track to meet its objectives and deliverables, manage communications and stakeholder expectations across the program, and develop clear objectives and key results.

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