Agile Lineout - for non-tech teams

Jon Ward lives in Walberswick, Suffolk, England with his Russian wife, Tatiana.

Jon is currently leading an agile transformation for 5000 employees in an international Telecoms firm. Jon has worked in Change Management for over thirty years. Initially, on leaving college as an apprentice, Jon was responsible for redesigning manual administrative processes used in the manufacture of components for Concorde and the Harrier jump jet. More recently, using similar techniques, Jon has been accountable for transformational agile change in financial services organisations.

Jon believes in contextual agile. Rather than using one framework or set techniques, Jon introduces appropriate ways of agile working enabling organisations to achieve their strategic goals. This contextual focus may involve tailoring agile approaches and blending then with traditional techniques. For example, recently, Jon combined Benefits Management approaches from Managing Successful Programmes with components from SAFe and Disciplined Agile. Consequently, Jon has a reputation for pragmatism and for implementing new ways of working, which make a difference.