Roland Cuellar
Federal Agile IV&V : A Customer Experience Report
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Roland Cuellar
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Roland Cuellar (‘kway-are’) 4024 N 27th St Arlington, VA 22207 (571) 225-7653 |
PROFILE |
Agile and Lean-Six-Sigma change leader, adept at interfacing with senior IT executives to implement agile software processes at scale, coaching agile software development practices with delivery teams, and leading business process improvement initiatives.
FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE |
Pragmatic Large-Scale Agile Adoption – Leading transformation efforts utilizing agile methods at F500 client sites and large government agencies to greatly improve time-to-market and quality.
Program Management Standards –Define agile delivery standards, metrics, maturity models, and practices for consistent organizational adoption, scaling, management, and project engagement.
Agile Team Coaching – Lead agile project teams with a focus on improving agile requirements, estimation, planning, tracking, product quality, business interaction, team communication, and delivery.
Lean-Six-Sigma Process Improvement – Use lean and six-sigma techniques to analyze and improve business processes for improved quality and throughput.
Agile and Lean Training – Develop and deliver impactful agile and lean training to leaders and team members on topics of agile, Scrum, Kanban, product ownership, and lean.
Management Consulting – Executive level strategy formulation, planning, and execution
A FEW RECENT CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS |
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ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY and RESULTS |
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DHS CIS |
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DOJ COPS |
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Capital One |
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The Capital Group |
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Nationwide Insurance |
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Comcast |
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General Dynamics / VIPS |
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CNBC |
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Numerous other clients, performing similar agile enablement work such as management consulting, training, and team coaching. |
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY |
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FIRM |
DATES |
INDUSTRY |
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NTT Data Inc |
Oct 2011 to present |
Federal IT Consulting |
Strategy and Business Process Consultant |
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Three Pillar Global |
Jan 2011 to Oct 2011 |
Outsourced Software Development |
Director |
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LitheSpeed |
May 2008 to Dec 2010 |
Management Consulting |
Senior Consultant |
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CC Pace |
Dec 2003 – May 2008 |
Management Consulting |
Director and Senior Consultant |
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DHL |
Sept 2001 – Dec 2003 |
Global Logistics |
Customer Implementation Manager |
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NextStrat |
Sept 1997 - July 2001 |
Strategy Consulting |
Director Software Development |
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IBM |
Feb 1993 – Sept 1997 |
Defense Systems |
Software Engineer |
A SAMPLING OF PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS |
- Cutter Executive Report, 2011: Kanban for Help Desks: Managing the Unplannable
- Cutter Executive Report, 2006: The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery
- Cutter, 2008: Article “5 Steps To Make Your Portfolio Flow”
- Projects @ Work, Published paper, 2009 – “The Agile Balanced Scorecard”
- Thoughtworks Webinar, June 2008 - “ Agile Reporting and Metrics”
- StickyMinds Webinar, 2009 – “The Agile Balanced Scorecard and Metrics”
- Book Chapter in “The Next Wave of Technologies”, Wiley, 2010
- Book Chapter in “The Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, 2010
- Journal of the Quality Assurance Institute, 2006 Published Paper and Conference Presentation: “Test Driven Development”
- PM Boulevard – 2008 – “5 Questions About Agile”
- PM Mundo (Brazilian) – 2008 – “Managing Agile Teams”
EDUCATION |
- MBA, UCLA
- BS Computer Science, University of Houston
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- CSM, CSP, CPO
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keyboard_arrow_downFriday Night in the ER: Agile Game Play
Leila RaoEnterprise Agile CoachAgileXtendedRoland CuellarFederal Agile IV&V : A Customer Experience ReportNTT Dataschedule 6 years ago
90 Mins
Others
Intermediate
Rediscover the universality of Agile principles (and help your clients truly understand them) by playing the Friday Night at the ER simulation.
'Friday Night at the ER' (c) is a powerful training game used originally by healthcare management to improve organizational responsiveness and quality. By imitating the challenge of managing a hospital during a 24-hour period, the game helps people experience and internalize the value of thinking systemically, innovating and collaborating across real and anticipated boundaries to achieve their goals. This game focuses on the role of management across various functions who must come together across organizational silos in order to deliver complete and high quality service to customers/patients. Non-uniform arrival of patients, random events, staffing challenges, and other real-world scenarios not only add a sense of reality to the game, but also help to show how these same challenges within our IT organizations can be addressed using Lean principles.
The 45 minute game play is followed by a 45 minute debriefing in which participants are guided through sharing their insights from the game experience and in relating to similarities to their work environments. The takeaway increased insight in helping individuals understand the Agile mindset and bridge silos within their organizations in order to improve flow of delivery. -
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IV&V for Federal Agile Programs: A Customer Experience Report
Roland CuellarFederal Agile IV&V : A Customer Experience ReportNTT DataKenUser Experience ConsultantCentareschedule 8 years ago
60 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
- Many federal government organizations have a requirement to perform independent verification and validation (IV&V) of software development projects for purposes of risk identification and compliance
- As more federal agencies move towards agile, they will need to devise agile-appropriate methods for evaulating agile teams and contractors for process performance and project risk identification
- Traditional approaches to IV&V are heavily biased towards waterfall, gate reviews, and traditional SDLC artifacts and hence, do not work well within an agile envrionment
- Agile programs have their own process-specific risks and issues that need to be evaluated uniquely. The document-centric approach that has traditionally been used is innapropriate and ineffective for agile teams as it does not find the right risks and does not find them early enough in the development process.
- We at DHS/CIS have developed a unique, agile-appropriate IV&V model for a large agile transformation effort within DHS
- The model is used to discover process risks, design risks, code risks, and testing risks in real-time for agile teams
- The model serves as actionable and real-time feedback to teams, contractors, and federal managers that can be used for process improvement, vendor evaluation, and as a means to find and elevate delivery risks on agile projects
- Positive results, challenges, and recommendations related to the development, roll-out, and execution of this agile-appropriate IV&V model will be shared
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