I am a pragmatic and accomplished agile leadership coach with 15+ years of experience across various corporate and start-up environments.
I apply compassion, common sense, and situational flexibility as I foster the adoption and propagation of lean-agile values and principles. I am passionate and determined to help catalyze and nurture a culture of respect, acknowledgment, self-management, and continual improvement within technical and creative teams as well as across entire organizations. I take teams beyond “getting agile” into the deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance through continuous improvement.
Equally comfortable at the team, management, or leadership level, along the journey, I make sure everyone has a whole lot of fun.
Active listening • Ability to reclaim a room that has gone off the rails • Being able to connect the concepts/process we want to try and the tools we use • Having and relaying a vision of what working at our company should be like • Recognizing that not everyone thinks the same way • Trust: people trust that you care • Clear thinker: you are unflappable, even in the middle of chaos you instill calm • Positivity: you help others believe in themselves • Order: you can bring order to any chaos • A lot of people toss around the term “servant leader” and very few actually live up to it. I think you truly are a servant leader, and I’d call that your superpower • The way Andy is able to stay positive and show his emotion at the same time is really a gift • Fun, collaborative, open, willing to share, and receive feedback • A valuable agile leadership coach • Andy simultaneously exemplifies wisdom, integrity, passion, listening, hunger for learning, flexibility, adaptability, and selflessness.
With consideration for Agile principles, deliver value over meeting constraints, lead teams over managing tasks, and adapt to change over conforming to plans.
Lead cross-functional teams and coach/mentor others who are in the roles of Engineering Lead, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Kanban Lead, Team Lead, and/or Project Manager.
Serve as a Lean-Agile Coach by sharing, championing, and spreading Agile best practices, values, and principles (including, but not limited to Scrum and Kanban) in Engineering and across the organization through publication, mentoring, workshops, and collaboration
Facilitate organizational learning, improvement, and Agile process adoption across the organization through retrospectives
Coordinate with the executive leadership team on pipeline planning and portfolio management to maximize the delivery of business value
Implement a vision for engineering that aligns with the larger organizational goals
Employ Agile methodologies to collect metrics and provide feedback on the progress of teams and projects
Create a trust-filled, transparent, collaborative, and honest environment for learning, development, and knowledge-sharing
