Philip Grech
Digital Products Program Manager
NHVR
location_on Australia
Member since 4 years
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When the realisation came about that I didn’t have the talent or skill to become an elite athletic, I decided to focus my attention toward something I was great at, namely project & program management.
Beginning 20 yrs ago, I have spent over 40,000 hours enabling business through IT, business processes & in some cases new product or service launches. I have developed applications & software using Scrum Agile, I have integrated ERPs using Prince2 & I have built large scale e-commerce capabilities using the PMBoK framework.
Most recently, I managed a program to build the largest public, high speed WiFi Network in Australia and supported many aspects of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
I am a strategic thinker, however I enjoy taking the time to learn the detail from SME’s. I have worked with some amazing CIOs & I have been fortunate enough to have represented many of them whether it be on the negotiating table or before a Board. I am budget focussed with significant risk management & mitigation experience. I manage programs strategically by engagement & relationships, enabling a no-nonsense & practical approach with both internal & external stakeholders.
I welcome feedback. I am authentic. I have empathy & I believe that all great outcomes are the result of great teams. I listen intently before I speak. As a consultant specialising in both transformation, strategy & delivery, I start with the end in mind. I am a subscriber to Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s writings ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People’, in particular Habit 5: “Seek first to Understand, Then to Be Understood”.
On a personal note, I enjoy doing the difficult & I enjoy a challenge. I have climbed mountains, run marathons & I even once cycled across Australia solo. I am a family man and whilst I am always happy to deliver challenging bespoke solutions,
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AgileSwift - A true evolution in Agile - CI/CD to Change Implemenation to Benefits
25 Mins
Talk
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The Business came to all of our showcases and together we perfected our grooming sessions. Our planning sessions hummed like a well-oiled Harley Davidson and the quality of our dev builds improved with every iteration.
Now, 9 sprints later the business starts talking about change impacts, business benefits and Corporate Communications.
Huh ?
The scrum master shakes his head and says " That’s not part of the Scrum framework"
The product owner states " Hey, I only told the guys what the system needs to do"
Sounds familiar?
Unfortunately, a typical scrum team does not cater for the above and for good reason. It's simply not in the Scrum framework. As we all know, Scrum is about delivering working software and is silent about other aspects of a project.
Even if the above is recognised as a GAP, most Agile leaders or PM’s don’t have a method to incorporate into their methodology. Under a waterfall methodology, its straight forward but if following an Scrum methodology, well, things could get tricky.
The above is an obvious gap for most medium to large enterprises and a gap that most project professionals are not willing to take on. It’s just too hard.
This session is about my evolutionary journey in filling this gap under an Scrum Framework. This session is about how we extended the scrum framework to not only incorporate the above but to also incorporate “devops” and CI/CD under a methodology we created called AgileSwift.
Its new, it’s been validated and its producing real results.
This is our journey.
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