Peter Kappus

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OKR Coach, Programme and portfolio Manager, and Agile Organisational Development Consultant @ PNK INDUSTRIES LIMITED
United Kingdom
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Ready to realise more value by maximising clarity, delivery, and joy?I'm passionate about helping teams to deliver better. For more than 25 years I've been an engineer, producer, project/programme/portfolio manager, coach, trainer, and doer. I'm versatile, experienced, dynamic, and skilled in many diverse areas including digital, data, and technology, optimising purpose, people, and process to deliver strong value for a range of organisations spanning finance, bio-tech, media, government, and more. A natural servant-leader, I easily bridge business and technology, specialising in helping teams to explore and apply innovative operational, managerial, strategic, and technical solutions to deliver outstanding digital products & services that delight customers, reduce costs, and increase profitability. I create a culture of continuous measurable improvement through open critical thinking, strong interpersonal skills, and creative innovation. My exceptional goal-setting and strategic alignment skills (e.g. OKRs) combined with a relentless focus on commercial outcomes and financial responsibility (looking after budgets in excess of £150m) ensure outstanding results with highly engaged teams and stakeholders.Deep experience with lean/agile delivery methodologies, specialist in helping organisations to adopt Lean/Agile processes such Systems Thinking, Value Stream Mapping, User Story Lifecycle, Acceptance Criteria, burn downs, burn ups, Story Point estimation, continuous integration (CI), test driven development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Pair/Mob Programming, Kanban, sprint planning and Agile retrospectives. Extensive experience leading strategic alignment activities around Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and Impact Mapping.I do this in a way that is effective, sustainable, and even FUN. Contact me today to see how I can help!

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PNK INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Pnk Industries Limited

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OKR Coach, Programme and portfolio Manager, and Agile Organisational Development Consultant
United Kingdom
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Peter Kappus Work Experience Details
  • Pnk Industries Limited
    Okr Coach, Programme And Portfolio Manager, And Agile Organisational Development Consultant
    Pnk Industries Limited
    United Kingdom
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  • Pnk Industries Limited
    Founder, Organisational Development Consultant (Agile, Okrs, Lean Portfolio Training & Facilitation)
    Pnk Industries Limited Oct 2009 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    For over 20 years I've helped technology teams to deliver with quality, speed, and joy.Since 2015 I've had the privilege of supporting thousands of people in dozens of teams across world leading organisations to adopt, refine, and get the most from OKRs while transitioning to more agile ways of working. Clients include:- Wikimedia Foundation - Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking- BNP Paribas- The Automobile Association- Contentful- Stuart Delivery- The BBC (Design + Engineering / iPlayer)- Doctors Without Borders (MSF)- The Government Digital Service- Pearson Publishing- Multiple global asset management companies- Many more...Activities include:- Remote & On-site training workshops- Facilitated OKR drafting and review sessions- Fully embedded agile coaching- Agile programme management and lean portfolio design- Agile budgeting and performance management- Hourly remote-coaching- Leadership coaching- OKR evaluations/auditing- Custom tooling & configuration- Team empowerment- Legacy rescue / turn-around- Target Operating Model design & implementationLearn more via https://www.peterkappus.com/cv
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  • Exscientia
    Senior Organisational Development Consultant (Part-Time)
    Exscientia Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
    London / Oxford / Remote
    Helping Exscentia to navigate tremendous growth in the AI/ML drug discovery & design space while developing into a lean, happy, product/user-centric organisation in multiple teams across complex technology and scientific realms.- Worked closely with highly technical and scientific teams using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to deisgn better drugs drugs faster- Worked hands-on as a delivery manager in the Machine Learning Operations group to accelerate delivery- Trained and coached 250+ people across 30+ teams in using Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)- Founded and facilitated the internal OKR Ambassadors group- Developed internal training and reference material on OKRs and agile methods- Introduced team charter sessions and artefacts and facilitated sessions across 5+ teams- Kicked off & supported agile & OKR communities of practice - Mentored staff in agile methods including sprint planning, pre-planning, retrospectives, etc.- Facilitated dozens (maybe hundreds) of workshops- Facilitated target Operating Model Design discussions with leadership- Introduced modern agile ways of working and product management techniques across the org- Moved several teams from project, to product, to service mindse
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  • Genomics England
    Senior Organisational Coach (Agile & Okrs)
    Genomics England Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
    London
    GEL was at the beginnings of its agile transformation when I joined. I had three key responsibilities:- Create a vibrant community of agile practitioners- Kick-off the "GEL Way" to identify, codify, and amplify good practice in the organisation- Roll out OKRs as a goal-science framework across the organisationWhat I did:- Trained & coached 250+ people across 20+ teams in OKR theory & practice- Facilitated dozens of OKR setting, alignment, checking-in, and closure events- Helped teams and senior leaders to use impact-based outcomes & metrics to evaluate success and make decisions (OKRs)- Assisted performance management teams to perform more data-driven analysis - Started weekly agile community catch-ups- Managed and optimised internal communication forums for agile delivery, the GEL Way, and OKRs- Identified and nurtured "project managers" to become delivery managers- Assisted with hiring several delivery managers- Helped design the agile career pathways at GEL- Facilitated numerous agile ceremonies for teams (backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, show & tells, retrospectives, etc)- Facilitated numerous OKR setting, alignment, check-in, and closure sessions- Provided training in the above to delivery managers, senior leadership, and stakeholders including at NHSE- Assisted with selection and roll-out of a SaaS based OKR management platform- Built transitional tools to move from spreadsheets to a SaaS solution using Office365 and Vue.jsWhat Happened:- Deployment cadence on healthcare pipeline reduced from 12 weeks to 4 weeks- 20+ teams using OKRs- Senior leaders using OKRs to make strategic & operational decisions- OKRs being used for external stakeholder comms & engagement- First iteration of GEL Way had contributions from multiple teams
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  • Societe Generale Corporate And Investment Banking - Sgcib
    Senior Agile & Okr Coach
    Societe Generale Corporate And Investment Banking - Sgcib May 2019 - Jul 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Acted as lead coach across three tribes (150+ people globally distributed in 3 regions), key mentor/facilitator of the UK agile community, and primary OKR coach within an ambitious and highly structured Agile at Scale transformation programme in one of the world's largest and oldest investment banks.Responsibilities included:- Training teams, leaders, and other trainers in OKRs- Defining and delivering transformation MVP (including Target Operating Model) for two tribes- Coaching multiple teams including product owners and senior leaders in agile methodologies- Coaching internal coaches and supporting the UK agile community- Coaching technical and non-technical teams in agile practices, OKRs, and continuous improvement- Teams delivering mission-critical platforms for listed derivatives, cash equities and algorithmic trading at a global scale with better than 24x6 99.999% availability- Defining and facilitating agile programme governance via a Product Management Team (PMT) of senior business sponsors (e.g. traders) spanning both tribes- Helping teams to perform self-assessments and set the strategic and tactical direction of their transformationsHelped teams successfully transition to a 100% remote model in March 2020 under UK Lockdown and continue to successfully transform to lean agile ways of working.Activities and techniques included story mapping, value-stream mapping, retrospectives, stand-ups, sprint planning, virtual workshop facilitation, process automation, mentoring/training, backlog refinement, estimation, performance measurement (velocity, OKRs, Accelerate metrics, etc). Applied Liberating Structures, NVC, deep listening, and the GROW framework to enable deep cross-cultural collaboration and collective ownership.
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  • Bbc
    Okr/Agile Coach & Portfolio Consultant
    Bbc Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
    London/Salford
    - Training and coaching 18 teams (300+people) across TV & Radio (including iPlayer web & mobile) to adopt Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)- Building greater transparency, data-driven decision making and strategic alignment- Building and deploying process improvement tools (Ruby on Rails) and methods- Evolving portfolio & programme governance- Integrating with financial reporting to join up spend and delivery- Project managing the Proteus Platform which handles commissioning and scheduling for every second of audio played out on BBC Radio as well as archiving data for nearly 100 years of radio broadcasts. Moved from SVN to Github, and Team City to Jenkins, improved release cadence from 3 times per year to fortnightly and release downtime from 4 hours to 5 minutes whilst skilling up team and improving team happiness.
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  • Government Digital Service
    Delivery Manager (Benefits Realisation Lead)
    Government Digital Service Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
    London, United Kingdom
    Developed flexible, agile data infrastructure, processes, and tools to forecast and evidence delivery of £1.5bn of benefits across a complex cross-government technology transformation portfolio comprising over a dozen products and services deployed into dozens of government departments and organisations.Used agile best practices to refine operating models, build, standardise and consolidate financial models, agree on reporting structures and methods and join up delivery, engagement, commercial, and strategic contract support efforts. Heavy involvement in building, managing, and deploying management information systems using Qlikview, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and python for contract analysis, benefits tracking, and engagement.
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  • Government Digital Service
    Portfolio Delivery Manager
    Government Digital Service Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
    London
    Through close engagement with finance, people, and delivery teams combined with strong technical ability I added significant operational agility to the business; enabling senior leadership to make informed, data-driven decisions around prioritisation, investment, delivery, risk, financial performance, headcount and benefits realisation to effectively manage a £500m complex change portfolio driving digital transformation across the UK government.HIGHLIGHTS- Designed and implemented a cross-organisation portfolio management practice and successfully transitioned ownership to full-time GDS employees who continue to use and iterate it - Introduced impact-mapping and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for strategic alignment, prioritisation and reporting- Transformed business planning/review cycles from cumbersome annual ones to be real-time, light-weight, and continuous- Saved over £100k (plus operational efficiency) by replacing costly, inflexible vendor ERP solution with a bespoke, constantly improving solution based on Google Sheets to manage 500+ employees and an annual budget of £150m+- Created an agile finance organisation providing actuals to teams within 5 days of the close of each month (versus every 6 months, previously).- Provided key data insights allow GDS to secure £500m investment from HM Treasury- Built bespoke systems to provide communities of practice with detailed, real-time vacancy and matrix management information- regularly provided delivery information to Cabinet Office, parliament, and the public including finance, headcount, risk, and progress- Active participant in the Agile Delivery community providing coaching, mentoring, and process improvement across GDS.
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  • Government Digital Service
    Programme Delivery Manager
    Government Digital Service Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
    London, United Kingdom
    Responsible for delivering the Digital Marketplace, a revolutionary programme (comprising an online platform, legal & commercial frameworks, and customer support) transforming how the government buys digital. G-Cloud sales alone circa £1.4B as of July 2016.Coached teams in agile methodologies, business planning and reporting: resource management, road-mapping, benefits realisation, risk mitigation, stakeholder management. Oversaw a ~£3M annual budget for a 30+ person cross-functional team (spanning product design, user research, technology, procurement, engagement, support, legal, and analytics).Active participant in the Agile delivery community at GDS providing coaching, training, and mentoring.Pivotal Tracker, Java (Grails), Python (Flask), Jenkins, SQL Alchemy, git, Postgre, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, continuous integration (CI) with Jenkins, infrastructure automation with Ansible, AWS Relational Data Store (RDS). All code open sourced via github.
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  • Pearson Plc
    Delivery Manager / Agile Transformation Coach
    Pearson Plc Jul 2013 - Nov 2014
    London
    Mentored delivery teams and senior stakeholders in Agile methodologies as part of a large-scale digital transformation effort at the world's largest publishing company. I supported multiple projects to migrate away from traditional, dysfunctional methods and move to a Lean/Agile practice, incorporating Scrum, Lean, Kanban and BDD techniques to improve efficacy, efficiency, and quality. Projects included a 60K+ page site redesign/build and CMS migration and a custom Big Data analytics platform to mine subscription and usage data, spot behavioural trends and make sales predictions and product development recommendations.Methodologies included Kanban, Scrum (sprint planning, planning poker, daily standups, demos, retrospectives), Lean UX, Build/Measure/Learn, SMART(er) KPIs, role-play, scenario modelling, burn-downs, burn-ups, cycle-time tracking, and cumulative flow diagraming (CFDs)Technologies included Jira, OmniGraffle, Apache, Linux (CentOS), Adobe Experience Manager (AEM/CQ) (Java), Solr, AngularJS, Jenkins, Cucumber (Ruby, Capybara, Poltergeist, PhantomJS), CouchDB, AWS, Business Objects, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Kafka, Python, SOA/APIs, and more.
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  • Abstraktor
    Founder | Cto
    Abstraktor Apr 2013 - Jul 2014
    London, United Kingdom
    Designed and developed a web start-up allowing users to create bespoke vector-based art-works, buy prints, and repost to various social networks via 3rd party REST APIs. Technologies included Ruby on Rails, HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, git, SVG, ImageMagick, Slim, Sass, MySQL, CarrierWave, RMagick, OAuth, Capistrano, Passenger, RSpec, Guard & Capybara (for TDD/CI)
  • Ustwo™
    Scrum Master (Freelance)
    Ustwo™ Nov 2012 - May 2013
    London
    Led a 10+ person team based between London and New York designing a large-scale customer loyalty coalition targeting 50 million households at launch for a large American Blue Chip credit card company. Used Agile methodologies to define and manage work, provide clear estimates, improve overall efficiency, and mitigate risk. Coached and worked directly with Product Ownership and Engineering teams to ensure timely and accurate delivery on multiple platforms including Responsive Web, iOS, and Android. Engineering and QA Teams worked across 3 time-zones on-shore (London/New York), near-shore (Phoenix USA), and off-shore (including 3rd party vendors and acquisitions in Germany and India): Business Owners, Compliance, Engineering, Strategy, Branding, Business Analysts, Architects, and QA teams (90+ people). Provided daily Agile support, including stand-ups, planning, delivery, and retrospectives. Designed bespoke work-flows to meet the complex needs of a large organisation including agile coaching for business owners, dev, and QA teams.Applicable Buzzwords: Java EE, SDLC, SOA, Scrum, Agile, User Experience (UX), iOS, Android, Responsive Web, Service Design.
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  • Gray Metrics
    Data Scientist / Delivery Manager (Freelance)
    Gray Metrics Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
    London
    Responsible for delivering the first generation data collection and analytics product for a Big Data start-up. Provided product ownership, technical oversight, application development, and organisational direction. Working with technologies such as AWS (EC2), MongoDB, Jetty, D3.js, and R to mine social data for predictive analytics in the automotive industry.
  • Jam @ Engine
    Scrum Master / Senior Technical Project Manager (Freelance)
    Jam @ Engine Aug 2011 - Mar 2012
    London
    Managed the delivery and global roll-out of a bespoke, high-performance real-time social media management, analytics, and data-mining platform including web and mobile channels. Brought strong agile methodologies and technical know-how to the strategic planning, product definition, vendor management, budgeting, UX design, risk mitigation, and daily development, testing, documentation, and support activities.Managed a global team of engineers, QA, designers, and business owners between London, Brighton, and Columbia. Provided ad-hoc training in Scrum methods so that team could continue development after the end of my contract.SOA, RESTful APIs, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, Java EE, GNIP, Watir, jQuery, Automated Testing
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  • Ustwo™
    Senior Digital Producer
    Ustwo™ Aug 2010 - Aug 2011
    London, United Kingdom
    Managed a 10 person team of interaction designers, visual designers, and front-end developers to design and deliver front-end code for a Silverlight/web-based Foreign Exchange (FX) trading platform for a Tier 1 investment bank including support for cash, options, and algorithmic trading. Worked with multiple stake-holders across various lines of business including client services, E-Product management, and Information Technology. Developed bespoke design process to fit within existing product management lifecycle.Technologies included OmniPlan, OmniFocus, Axure, Nirvana, Java, XAML, Silverlight, HTML, & Javascript.
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  • Ustwo™
    Senior Project Management Consultant (Freelance)
    Ustwo™ Dec 2009 - Aug 2010
    Led a team of 30+ C++/ActionScript engineers, interaction designers, visual designers, responsible for delivering the end-to-end user experience for a ground-breaking web-enabled insulin pump with touch-screen UI (requiring CE Mark and EN-60601-1 compliant embedded software). Additionally liaised with external engineering teams in Winchester, Poland, and Wales. Used agile methods to introduce a robust engineering, UX, and defect management processes prior to arrival of VP of engineering. Routinely met with investors and potential investors to provide data-room style updates and projections.Technologies included OmniGraffle, SpiraTeam, OmniPlan, C++, ANT-RF, GSM, ActionScript, WinCE, HaXe.Agile methodologies included unit testing, continuous integration, user story creation & refinement, sprints, agile retrospectives & sprint planning.
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  • Design Commission
    Managing Director, Owner
    Design Commission Sep 2006 - Aug 2009
    Partner and Technical Director at a full-service digital design and development agency based in Seattle specialising in designing and launching web marketing campaings and web-applications for technology start-ups.Responsibilities included:- software development & oversight- software testing and quality assurance- strategic business development- client relationship management- project management- employee development- managing on-site and off-shore development and QA teams- User Experience/Interaction Design: translating business goals into clear, actionable user-stories, personnas, user-flows, wireframes, and visual design.Tools and technologies include: Ruby on Rails, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, WordPress, ActionScript, Flash, Agile/Scrum, BaseCamp, Lighthouse, Rally, OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, GTD, Harvest, QuickBooks, MS Office, Google Analytics, Omniture, TextMate, MySQL.http://www.designcommission.com
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  • Boom Bucket, Llc
    Founder And Technology Director
    Boom Bucket, Llc Oct 2005 - Aug 2009
    Founder and CTO of a mobile content distribution company, delivered all technology infrastructure and oversaw user experience for digital asset management and online marketing. Also managed technical areas of onboarding new content providers and customers and managing royalty reporting.Implemented with HTML, JavaScript, PHP (custom framework), MySQL, ActionScript, Flash, Campaign Monitor.Supporting role in new content acquisition, new business development, marketing.
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  • Corbis
    Senior Technical Producer
    Corbis Feb 2000 - May 2006
    Seattle, Wa
    Led the delivery of new Corbis Motion platform. Liaised with engineering & marketing teams to ensure delivery of timely, cost-effective concept generation, experience design, implementation, launch, and follow-up of various marketing campaigns across multiple lines of business. Technologies included, Flash, ActionScript, ASP.NET, SQLServer, Perl, HTML, and JavaScript.
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  • The Stock Market Photo Agency
    Designer/Developer
    The Stock Market Photo Agency 2000 - 2002
    Worked on the UI and development for various marketing campaigns and the core e-commerce site for a medium-sized stock photography house doing 40% of its business online. Successfully designed and implemented a Perl based localisation system allowing the entire e-commerce web site to be translated and launched in 7 languages within 2 weeks and easily updated by local market leaders without technical knowledge. Technologies included: Flash, ActionScript, Perl, ASP, SQL, JavaScript.

Peter Kappus Skills

User Experience Agile Methodologies Scrum Mobile Devices Agile Project Management Interaction Design Project Management Ruby On Rails Digital Marketing Jira Git Javascript Programme Delivery Web Applications Business Transformation Agile Product Development Test Driven Development Linux Certified Scrum Master Csm Product Management Certified Project Manager Software Engineering Test Automation Social Media Marketing Kanban Portfolio Management Budgeting Project Management Office Program Management Web Development Stakeholder Management Agile Coaching Digital Transformation Okr Consulting

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