Dan Puckett

About Dan Puckett

Agile/Lean consultant, coach, facilitator, writer. programmer Specialties: Agile…

Experience

1. Enterprise Coach

   Wesco

   May 2023 — Present · Chapel Hill, NC, US

   Consulting, coaching, and training within Wesco in support of Agile transformation of IT/Digital.Served as Chief Product Owner (CPO) for the MetaScrum heading up the Agile transformation.In the role of Product Owner for a single transformation team, led the Agile transformation for an organization of 18 teams (Enterprise Systems).Enterprise Systems teams demonstrated an average velocity increase of 30% across the 18 teams.Accomplishments included:* Establishing a scaling framework (Scrum@Scale) to support Product Owners and Scrum Masters in accelerating the delivery of real value in the organization.* Improving how scaled reviews are conducted within the transformation teams.* Conducting Agility assessments of teams and organization (Path to Agility), analyzing the results, creating next actions based on those results, and inspecting and adapting as those actions are worked on.* Teaching Agile courses within Wesco, including:* Registered Scrum Master * Registered Scrum Master @ Scale * Registered Product Owner * Registered Product Owner @ Scale * Registered Agile Leader @ Scale * Applying Professional Kanban * Applying Metrics for PredictabilityProvided consulting, coaching, and training around Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) through:* Delivering OKR training.* Facilitating OKR workshops to help leaders build their first OKRs.* Working directly with leaders to help them improve their OKRs.* Establishing inspection/adaptation loops for the OKRs to keep them fresh and make the alignment provided by them to become part of their usual workflow.My students say:*\"I wanted to recognize Dan and Jennifer for holding an amazing training around Applying Metrics for Predictability. They are incredibly engaging instructors who brought an interactive and engaging training to life. They are top tier in their field and I have great tools to bring back to my teams and leverage a more agile strategy.\"

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of science

  1987 — 1993

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Software Design
• Distributed Systems
• Agile
• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Project Management
• Test Driven Development
• Clearcase
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Perl
• Unit Testing
• Jira
• Certified Scrum Master Csm