Semi-retired Agile and Leadership coach. I'm able to provide event-oriented coaching or training; for example, an introduction to Agile/Scrum/Kanban, or coaching using either the Leadership Circle Profile or MBTI frameworks.

Great Agile organizations can realize 30-40% productivity improvement and are 3 times more likely to be successful. I help IT & Software development organizations make the move to Agile and Scrum using a proven approach based on a decade of working with nearly a thousand people, and better than two dozen organizations including Charles Schwab, Oracle, Automated Logic, and CMS Energy. My rich experience of over 40 years from engineer to executive enables me to relate to all levels and functions of a companyTo create those kinds of results requires a disciplined and whole system approach. I provide meaningful and impactful training and coaching that instills:• A principle based approach that enables people to know how to approach the complexity of work • Values that ensures the people know how to most effectively work together, and• Care for people in the transition, leveraging psychological and neurological methods of training and coaching that makes things stick.Want to move your company to Lean and Agile methods to achieve on-time delivery, improved quality, and enhanced customer satisfaction? Looking to restore sanity with the ability to manage changing priorities, improved project visibility, and increased team productivity?Then let's talk!Email: henry.dittmer@agileforall.comPhone: 303-810-4905Certifications: Scrum Alliance: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) Approved Certified Agile Leader (CAL) Educator Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified Product Owner (CSPO) MBTI Certified Professional The Leadership Circle Certified Practitioner NeuroLeadership Institute Brain Based Coach

Focusing on Agile methods (Scrum, XP, Kanban...), Swift Ascent brings breadth and depth of experience in Software Development from a technical perspective and converges this with the human aspect of interpersonal and organizational skills.

Provider of Agile/Scrum training for new teams embarking on Agile using Scrum. Provided training for more than 800 people.

Helping organizations do their best through people, process & technology.

Soup to nuts operational management. Oversaw CTO activities, Sales and Support process design/implementation/management, Financial structuring and bookkeeping, Business Plan development...

Overall responsibility for a global R&D organization that brought innovative technology solutions to remote service delivery; automated ticket resolution, operational tools, implementation tools, and product service capabilities. Global organization comprised of approx 250 engineers with locations in Denver, Dallas, New Jersey, Pune & Sydney. Accountablve for $35M investment returning approx $55M in cost and revenue returns.As Senior Director of Avaya's Service Technology Strategy & Development organization; Established a location in Pune, India that grew to some 45 associates building complex software.

Accountable for StorageTek’s product realization process definition, management and quality assurance. Created total value chain definition of artifacts that collectively ensured a total solution delivery to market. Turned around a once divisive set of functions into a collaborative solution delivery engine.

Instituted a comprehensive, enterprise-wide Quality Management System enabled through an interactive, web-based approach which enabled $330M per quarter in revenue through the certification of the company to the ISO 9001:2000 standard via a simple, reduced-cost method of registration; achieving registration in less than 12 months. Lead a cross-business team that defined Strategic Planning & Management, Concept to Market, and Lifecycle processes used corporate wide. Managed rollout and change management in instituting that set of solution processes.

Stabilized a 120+ development organization through a dramatic change in leadership, product portfolio, and corporate culture. Managed the entire software development lifecycle (systems engineering, architecture, integration & system test, field support). Created and drove a disciplined approach to managing and optimizing sustaining versus new software development. Conceptualized a disciplined approach to program (vs. project) management that increased predictability and consistency of offer realization during go to market phase. Lead activities that integrated a major acquisition into Lucent processes. Oversaw a company-wide Y2K reconciliation program that resulted in a non-event 1/1/2000. Created custom development technological and business model that secured critical customers at an additional profit. Turned a sustaining engineering nightmare into a well-organized, executing team and process.

Transitioned a languishing, under-achieving team of 12 developers and 4 verification staff into a high-powered efficient software development organization that lead a major product release. Successfully end of lifed a major product platform from the market. Awarded an unprecedented two Partner of Choice Awards for supporting customers through difficult technological and relationship challenges. Devised a self-directed team model for delivering software resulting in a major re-write of 20KNCSL of code, that resulted in 11 patents, including 1 international patent. Prior to promotion to Supervisor, Member of the Technical Staff involved in Systems Engineering, Architecture, Software Design-Code-Test & System Verification.