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Peter Saddington

I am an Independent Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach having worked with a number of the [Fortune 500 & Government Agencies] for the past 10+ years. I'm passionate about helping businesses and individuals thrive.

What I do

Services I Offer

  • Agile Coach & Consultant
  • Scrum Development Training
  • Social Media Technologist & Strategist
  • Social Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist
  • Public Speaker & Life Coach (M.A. Counseling)
  • Author: Scrum Pocket Guide
  • Blogger: AgileScout.com
  • Husband & Father :)

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) Case Study

Product Owner Agile Assessment and Coaching

  • Timeline: 1 Month - 2011
  • Approach: Conducted a full Product Ownership Agile Assessment with the IHG Product Management Department
  • Results: 3 full days of assessment followed up with recommendations for coaching approach. Initiatives for coaching and execution following the assessment included: User Story Writing Standardization, Definition of Done Standardization, Working Agreements Modeling, Attacking Technical Debt, Refactoring Initiatives, Standardizing Reporting to executive management, and creating team work spaces and visual card boards for a pilot team.

T-Mobile Case Study

Full Agile Adoption for Select T-Mobile Teams

  • Timeline: 10 Months - 2011
  • Approach: As the sole Enterprise Agile coach for T-Mobile application development, Peter coached T-Mobile development teams from 3 different locations (Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, Richmond, VA)
  • Results:Taking a balanced approach to multiple teams in multiple locations with different Agile maturity, Peter coached teams through workshops: Agile Boot Camps, Product Owner training, User Story Writing workshops, Team Development workshops, ScrumMaster training, Release and Sprint planning, Retrospective and Innovation games workshops. Peter then utilized Kanban to manage and visualize the PMO project portfolio as several development units undertook a scaling approach to Product Management. Peter also hosted the first ever Open Space for the Seattle project teams in August 2011 and it will currently become a quarterly event.

Air Force Reserve Case Study

Full Scrum Adoption for Air Force Reserve Command Portal Project

  • Timeline: 9 Months - 2008
  • Approach: A $12.4M Air Force Reserve transformation with a rigid development process with long deployment build times across multiple teams. As the Program Manager and Agile Coach, Peter worked closely with the Lieutenant Colonels with the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) to introduce Agile and create a strategy and plan for implementing it iteratively. 
  • Results: Utilizing the Scrum framework and Test Driven Development (TDD) practices, Peter coached the Program Management Office and high ranking Air Force Officials to utilize Agile and move deployment to 2 week sprints, increase transparency across the organization (with TFS process improvements), and utilize better service oriented architecture (SOA) to enable quicker deployment, decrease QA time, and increase customer satisfaction.

Solid Earth, Inc. Case Study

A Full Company-Wide Agile Adoption

  • Timeline: 3 Months - 2011
  • Approach: As the Agile Coach and Consultant, Peter worked with the CTO and CEO of Solid Earth, Inc. to create a plan to introduce Agile and apply it over a period of 3 months for the entire company with no previous Agile or Scrum experience. 
  • Results: After an assessment period, Peter began with Product Owner and Agile Product Portfolio training with the Product Managers, and then completed a full 2-day Agile Boot camp with the entire company. He then coached the maintenance team and the new development team through Release Planning, Sprint 0, Sprint 1, Sprint 2, Retrospectives and Maintaining Agility. The company adopted a development and deployment time of 2 week cycles and utilized Kanban to manage maintenance of their legacy system.
  • Solid Earth Client Adoption The most encouraging aspect of this transformation is that Solid Earth, Inc. is now training their clients in Agile methods and growing the Agile community of practice by starting the Huntsville, Alabama Agile Users Group. They are multiplying their Agile transformation experience through Alabama with success.

Cbeyond, Inc. Case Study

Agile Project Management and Coaching for Web2.0 Initiatives

  • Timeline: 4 Months - 2009
  • Approach: An Agile Coach for 2 ScrumMasters and 2 development teams. 
  • Results: Cbeyond teams for the new Web2.0 Initiatives undertook Scrum training and coaching for 4 months. Training workshops included: Agile Boot Camps, Product Owner workshops, Agile Requirements in Waterfall Environments, Better Development Practices, TDD workshops, and daily coaching of ScrumMasters and teams.

HMWallace, Inc. Case Study

A Full Company-Wide Agile Adoption

  • Timeline: 5 Months - 2009
  • Approach: As the VP of Operations and Agile Consultant, Peter transformed this $25M company into a full-fledged Agile development enterprise within 5 months. 
  • Results: Peter began with the development team, immediately putting them on a 2 week cadence and utilizing Pivotal Tracker for requirements gathering and user story visualization. He held Agile Boot Camp training, Product Owner workshops, and revamped the QA and Customer Service Issue and Bug processes to streamline with development queues and sprint cycles. As the VP of operations, Peter had a fun time re-organizing the entire company environment starting with the development teams, moving them to an open-office layout with co-location of developer teams with pairing on development tasks. The next phase of the transition was to move the CEO, COO, and Product Owners to an Agile management understanding so that they could understand ROI per story, prioritize, and fund projects appropriately. The final transformation was client engagement and client requests. Coaching and training local FTE's to communicate the new processes so that we could receive, capture, and prioritize features based on client importance and criticality.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Case Study

Agile Project Management for the Financial Management Office (FMO) and the Procurement and Grants Office (PGO)

  • Timeline: 10 Months - 2007
  • Approach: As the Agile Consultant, Peter managed and lead 2 development projects under Scrum methods. 
  • Results: The PGO and FMO departments for the CDC were in dire need of an approach to rolling out their Executive Dashboards to view metrics. We utilized iterative development to pinpoint and prioritize metric features needed first and build out requirements that fit into 2 week sprints. Peter held Scrum Training workshops, TDD workshops, Product Owner workshops, and User Story Writing workshops in order to align the teams. Peter left the program after funding was cut. We completed close to 70% of the top metric priorities within the 10 month period.

Agile Coaches Network

Agile Coaches I have Worked With:

  • Scott Dunn, CST
  • Jim Schiel, CST
  • Roger Brown, CST
  • Bob Schatz, CST
  • Arlen Bankston, CST
  • Bob Hartman, CST
  • Dhaval Panchal, CST
  • Rachel Weston, CST
  • Dave Prior, CST
  • Bob Payne (Lithespeed)
  • Derek Huether (Lithespeed)
  • Don Gray (Independent Agile Coach)
  • Robert Anderson (Adobe Systems, Inc.)
  • Kristen Blake (T-Mobile, Inc)
  • Steve Schroeder (SolutionsIQ)
  • Dave Miller (Cbeyond, Inc.
  • Mark Kilby (Rally Software, Inc.)
  • Mark Baker (Consumer Source, Inc.)

My Paper...

I love to grow my craft!

  • B.S. Information Science - Florida State University
  • M.A. Counseling - Luther Rice University
  • M.A. Education - Luther Rice University
  • MDiv Masters in Divinity - Luther Rice University
  • Cert. ScrumMaster, Cert. Scrum Product Owner, Cert. Scrum Practitioner
  • Secret Security Clearance (Till 2014) Yay for government access!

LeanGiving Workshops

Give Back

LeanGiving Workshops are a pay-it-forward style of training with all proceeds going to non-profits or charities. Find out more about these workshops at [LeanSalt].

LeanGiving Information

Why I Give Back

  • Purpose: Servant Leadership & Training
  • Vision: For more Agile and Lean Consultants to give back to their communities through training and helping non-profits and those in adverse conditions.
  • Who: Peter Saddington and Scott Dunn

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Some Companies I've Worked With

Previously a software developer in the mid 90's, I have since helped the Department of Defense (DoD), United States Air Force, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Johnson and Johnson, Primedia, Consumer Source, Blue Cross Blue Shield, T-Mobile, and various other private and Fortune 500 companies reach agility within their development teams and enterprises.

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