What I do

Please contact me if you would like to discuss my services.

Agile Coaching

Agile Coach services: Agile retrospective

“Ed transformed our company and the way that we work…The quality of our work shot up; our relationships with our clients became closer and more constructive; our planning became easier and more realistic.”

– Dave Fletcher, Managing Director, White October.

 

Would you like to introduce your teams to agile projects but aren’t sure where to start?

I specialize in helping new teams make the transition to agile and lean ways of working, and in helping teams who want to progress to the next level in their journey. I can help with:

  • project initiation
  • user research
  • user story and product backlog creation
  • planning facilitation
  • reviews and retrospectives
  • programme management and product pipeline

Training Courses

Agile Training: Agile Business Analysis course

NEW! Guerrilla Training

I have started a series of Guerrilla Training sessions, for different, better and more authentic lean and agile training.

Management 3.0

Ask me about training in Management 3.0

Training courses

I can deliver customised training courses in the areas of:

  • Agile and Lean 101
  • Agile Business Analysis
  • Organisational Agile
  • Lean and Agile for Agencies
  • User Experience and agile

Agile delivery team work

Ed is a self-motivated, driven individual who commits to goals and finds a way through roadblocks to get the job done. Ed is passionate about solving real customer problems, and finding efficient ways to accomplish customer goals, with unflinching quality insistence.

— David Marques, Senior VP Research Data Services at Elsevier

Do you need an experienced professional to help your delivery team to get a job done?

If so, I’d please get in touch. I can make a valuable addition to an agile team, performing duties such as:

  • Agile Project Manager
  • Product Manager
  • Agile Business Analyst/Solution Designer
  • Producer
  • Scrum Master/Iteration manager
  • Development manager

Conferences and Professional Interest Groups

LAST Conference

 I believe Australia was in need of an event like this, organised by the community and with focus in providing useful content more than anything…it was a great day

Francisco Trindade, about LAST Conference 2012.

The event was well organised, the sessions I attended were well thought out and prepared, and I got something from each one. I had such a great day, and I am looking forward to the next one.

— Mandi Hicks, MYOB, about LAST Conference 2013.

I co-organize:

I have presented at some of these events, and am also at events such as Scrum Australia, Melbourne Geek Night, and Agile Singapore.