SCALE

After leaving Northrop Grumman I became a contractor with a Company that was implementing Agile at Scale. I was hired to help them with their Software Requirements problems and to design the work items for the Team Foundation Server adaptation. But during deployment it became obvious that they needed process help, so I began working with their Agile Coach to solve organizational process problems, and ended up doing research that let to the introduction of the Leffingwell SAFe model. I then helped scrum masters, product owners, and managers adapt to the release planning and product management parts of the SAFe model. I also introduced using practices instead of processes, and eventually rewrote their organizational procedures into an Agile process using ‘kinds of work' and reduced their process load by at least 70%. After that contract ended I had another contract with a leading Agile Consulting company that was working on Agile at Scale projects and got to see how they were approaching..