Richard Hobson Email and Phone Number

I am a seasoned portfolio, programme and change management professional with over 30 years international experience directing Agile and digital transformation, complex programme delivery and business management. As a transformation leader with expertise in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) at scale, I work with business and technology stakeholders at all levels to align strategy, planning, funding and execution. This has led to demonstrable improvement in productivity, time-to-market, organisational culture and value delivered. I am a senior hands on practitioner who thrives on leading the operational teams, acting as coach, mentor and thought leader.Most recently I have implemented lean-Agile working practices in a £150M B2B product development organisation - I have fully integrated large corporate annual planning cycles to Lean Agile planning, brought 10x simplification to project funding & governance for Finance and Exec teams, created greater transparency and engagement to HR, Marketing and other business functions underpinned with actionable data-driven insight and value driven performance - 100% productivity increases, predictability over 80% and driving reduction in time to market.I am a certified Scaled Agile Framework SAFe (6.0) SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and a certified, practicing Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM 6.0). I have implemented the SAFe framework across the entire SDLC and managed £1M to £100M+ product development portfolios.