Areas of Expertise

Project / Product Management:

  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean), SAFe 4.6, ITIL, Full SDLC
  • Software and Product Management: Web, Desktop, Mobile, On-Prem, Cloud
  • Scheduling: Sprint Planning, Project Planning, Quarterly Planning, Annual Planning, Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) high-level planning, Level of Effort (LOE) detailed planning
  • Reporting: Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, Burndowns/Burnups, Executive reports, Program wide, Client Specific, Financial
  • Latest developments in all areas of Agile and Software Management

Functional Expertise:

  • Design Thinking: Roadmapping, User Sessions, Design Sessions, Brainstorming, Story Grooming, Sprint Planning
  • Business Analysis: Discovery, Scope, Requirements/User Stories, Cost Analysis, Design, Client Communication, O&M Helpdesk Support, Tool Analysis
  • Documentation: Design Documents, User Guides, Test Scripts, Diagrams, Technical Documentation
  • Testing (QA): TDD, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Load Testing, Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Operations & Maintenance (O&M): Helpdesk Setup, Scripting, Compiling User Requests, Creating Requirements/Bugs, Managing Customer Expectations, Training

Program Management​

  • Setting up the PMO: set, maintains and ensures best practice standards and direction for project management across the organization): analysis, templates, reporting structure, ad-hoc best practices
  • CMMI Level 3: Development, Services - creating documentation to fill in gaps, interviews

Common client areas in need of improvement

  • Through years of experience, I found that the following areas are typically the ones where teams can often benefit from improvements
  • Client and Team Communication (unclear, unproductive)
  • Project Scheduling (inaccurate, not detailed, unmanageable)
  • Staffing (shortage, untrained, unmotivated)
  • Processes (cumbersome, repetitive)
  • Documentation (lacking, not detailed)
  • Testing (slow, inaccurate)
  • Time to Production (slow, inconsistent)
  • Requirements/User Stories (inaccurate, too long, too large)