Through working with charities and not-for-profits, I have seen how great delivery – the alignment of strategy with operations – can increase the impact of mission-led work with a clear social value.
I have worked on some fascinating and challenging domains, ranging from financial inclusion, narrative change, voter engagement, and government policy monitoring. My roles been varied too. Whether full-time, part-time or as a pro bono consultant, the have included:
- Product Lead & Founder
- Senior Programme Manager
- Delivery consultant and trainer
Some of the work I have done in the Charity / Not-for-profit sector has been on projects that I set up – you can read about them here.
Matt has a knack for asking the right questions and interpreting our requirements and objectives. Very personable too – I highly recommend working with him.
Fiona Stewart – MD, Green Man Festival
Work I do
Below is the kind of work or activities I have typically carried out. I have grouped them into the three key markers of my delivery health model.
Teams aligned to the strategy
- Strategy review
- KPI setting
- Portfolio-level visibility and reporting
- Team structure design for scaled delivery
- Leadership support and coaching
Continuously improving delivery
- Team- and Portfolio-backlog development
- Improvement activities and events
- Team capability and health assessments
- Risk management practices
- Delivery methodologies (such as Scrum and Kanban, including all ceremonies and artefacts)
- Training and workshops
- Coaching of delivery leads.
Informed decision-making
- Team-level reporting (planned vs unplanned, backlog forecasting, sizing work, measuring ‘output’, lead- and cycle-time, burn-up and burn-down charts)
- Portfolio KPI reporting
- Portfolio roadmap + forecasting
- Jira (or equivalent) administration, and setting up new work-tracking systems
