Adam Russell is a highly experienced digital delivery professional with a deep understanding of the management of software development and systems integration projects.

He builds on 40 years’ experience in the software development industry, starting as a developer and then moving into the realms of technical support, and finally project management.  Adam has worked for some of the largest companies in Australia, such as News Corp, IAG, Telstra and BHP. He has also worked for global vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, Wang Labs and Wipro.

Adam's experience in startups and working with smaller software companies has instilled the delight of nimble and agile approaches to delivering customer value.  At the same time Adam’s extensive enterprise experience has developed his deep understanding and strong capability in effective IT Governance.  Adam aims to implement governance with a combination of both discipline and agility: strong and disciplined controls where needed, but with agile independence and flexibility that focuses on customer value developing the products.

Whilst at Telstra, Adam managed the PMO for the largest internal software development team, which included up to 700 personnel at its peak size, of which 70 worked in the PMO, covering Project Management, Release Management and Test Management functions, as well as a finance and administration function.  The Program of work for this team varied but was up to $500m per annum of capital expenditure at its peak.

Adam’s strength is to bring together people from all areas of the company at all levels to work on value delivery via software or digital components.  Adam loves to solve complex problems in highly dynamic and often chaotic digital environments, and thrives on building digital products and bringing them to market. 

Adam does this by keeping focus on the outcomes that need to be delivered and by bringing people on the journey.  Although experienced in most traditional plan-based (Waterfall) and Agile methodologies, Adam doesn’t use any particular, preferring to assess each problem on a case-by-case basis and selecting the minimal toolset that is necessary to support each project.

Adam has designed and written many PMO processes and rolled these out to his staff as well as personnel in other teams and companies. 

Adam’s complete work experience, publications and other information can be found on LinkedIn, at the url: https://au.linkedin.com/in/adamr99