Roles & Responsibilities

On 01 June 1999, and trading as UML Solutions, I partnered with IndigoCube (Pty) Ltd. (www.indigocube.co.za) where I provided professional consulting services to a number of their clients. Roles I had over this period of 13 years included (amongst others):

• Agile Coach & Project Director,

• Frameworks & Methodologies Consultant,

• EPMO Director,

• PMO Director,

• Program Director, and

• Software Development Best Practices Deployment Consultant.

Main responsibilities were:

• Directing ICT EPMO's and PMO's at client sites, where I worked with and mentored their portfolio, program and project directors to effectively apply appropriate governance processes, frameworks, and agile methodologies in order to improve their program and project delivery capabilities.

• Managing client-owned ICT software development projects, following agile practices.

• Helping clients to recover troubled projects through the adoption of best practices for software development and agile principles.

• Defining and establishing improved risk and issue management processes, configuration management processes, project management processes and project life cycle frameworks and methodologies – mostly based on a combination of agile principles and PM BOK.

• Establishing and leading several Engineering Process Groups (EPGs) as "change agents" in those client organizations.

• Building and deploying tools with which to measure “adoption rates” of agile practices across teams in those client organizations. As such, I could scientifically measure their "maturity growth" on each of the concepts / principles deployed.

• Deploying various toolsets with which to support agile software development principles (like ARTs - Agile Release Trains) across a number of concurrent development / project teams, which also changed the ways in which the EPMO and release managers functioned.

 

Referrals

“I have known André since 1999 and he worked as a consultant for me until 2012. I can highly recommend André to any organization. He is a motivated, disciplined self-starter and all my dealings with him have always been very successful. Andre has deep expertise and extensive experience in Portfolio, Program and Project Management and numerous Software Development Frameworks and Methodologies. His consulting engagements were often extended, which resulted in long-term and mutually beneficial relationships for Indigocube and its customers. He at times represented Indigocube at international conferences, where he appeared as guest speaker, showcasing some of the consulting work he performed for large clients of ours. André is a true asset to any consulting organization wanting to employ only the best consultants, and if I ever get the opportunity to do business with him again, I’ll do so without hesitation.”

 

“Andre always got the job done, on time and within the specified budget. Andre knows the importance of meeting deadlines and also the emphasis one needs to place on professionalism when conducting yourself as a Project Manager.”

 

“André is a great leader, a detailed oriented project manager, with varied and relevant experience and skills. My experiences with André were in the object-oriented bespoke software development industry and during that time André headed up a number of projects. All his projects demonstrated his excellent interpersonal skills, management of multiple people, personalities, contrasting needs and problem-solving approach. His unique insights will make him a valuable addition to any enterprise focused organization.”

 

“Andre is passionately consistent at methodology utilization to achieve business project objectives at every level of the project. He demonstrated such a passion in the Revenue and customs business modeling projects we successfully executed for SARS.”

 

“Andre is one of the best project managers and project management consultants I have had the opportunity to work with. He is keenly focused on achieving results and is a specialist in managing software development projects. He has an uncanny ability to keep his team focused, even when the going gets tough. He is a pragmatic project manager with a solid understanding of methodology as applied to real life. He gains trusted advisor status with his customers through his openness and focus on managing project risks transparently to all stakeholders. I have enjoyed working with him and would recommend him highly for any hands-on or consulting engagements in this field.”