Interactive training on agility and ways of working, focused on its three core pillars: value, flow and learning. Built on real situations and exercises using your own work, so people leave with a shared language and changes they can try the next day.
Length, depth and focus can all be adapted to your teams, your context and the challenges you're facing, with examples drawn from your own work. In person or remote, for one team or across a whole organisation.
Training builds understanding. Coaching makes it stick. I work with your teams and leaders on the work in front of them, and we measure whether it's helping.
Team coaching
Value identification and slicing, board design, feedback loops and flow metrics, applied to the team's real workflow.
Flow across teams
When delivery problems sit between teams: visualising dependencies, managing priorities and flow at portfolio level.
Transformation support
Lean change management: clear goals, hypotheses instead of announcements, and simple measures of whether the change is working.
Leaders and managers
Working sessions with leaders to manage the system of work rather than the people in it.
Keynotes and conference talks
Speaking
Talks grounded in real projects, from building a laser for scientists to slicing work in retail tech. Practical, interactive, and usually with a few jokes.
Free tools to use on your own or with your team: exercises from my training, and ways to look at your own sprint and backlog data. The web tools run in your browser: nothing you enter or load is stored or sent anywhere.
Coming soon. A practical book about understanding, discovering, delivering and validating value in software development. It doesn't add another framework. It explains the principles underneath them, with real examples and plenty of sketches.
"Building things is not enough. Value comes from delivering small bits early, and learning from each one."
I started in research, and it stayed with me. I approach organisations the way I approached the lab: understand the system, question assumptions, look for evidence, run experiments and learn from what happens.
For 15 years I've helped teams and organisations improve how they deliver products and services. My focus is value delivery: how organisations identify value, organise work around it, reduce uncertainty, and find out quickly whether what they're doing is making a difference.
Invited keynote · Breuninger Tech Culture Day · 2025
Hey, I'm David!
Coming
Agile on the Beach · 2025
Shop Apotheke Technology Summit · 2022
Agility A2Z · 2021
Agile on the Beach · 2019
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT · 2017
