Owen Luke

Senior Program Manager @Boeing

Bristol, GB

As a Boeing Designated Expert for Agile and Programme delivery, I developed and led the implementation of the Boeing Defence SAFe Agile Enterprise Change Programme. I used that approach to delivery the MoD Defence Equipment and Support Information Technology Sustainment Programme; this initiative focused on implementing rolling updates to ensure constant availability and compliance with operational and security standards.SAFe Implementation and CoachingCreated, communicated, and embedded the SAFe Agile Target Operating Model.Coached senior leadership through SAFe and Agile adoption, deployment, and utilization.Developed and implemented SAFe Lean Portfolio Management.Programme ManagementGoverned the 5-year Sustainment strategy, managing multi-million-pound execution and risk budgets.Led a team of 5 project managers overseeing a portfolio of 300+ projects.Removed over £1 million of risk from undeliverable areas of the master contract.Pioneered the blending of SAFe Agile, scrum, kanban and Waterfall methodologies.Efficiency and Cost ReductionStreamlined planning overheads and introduced \'standard work\'.Achieved a sustainable 12.5% reduction in annual costs.Eliminated over £0.5 million in contractor costs by improving resource management.Delivery Performance ImprovementsDelivered a 27% increase in value delivery.Coached Agile teams to improve and sustain their velocity by 47%.Championed lean thinking, introducing \'Value Flow\' and reducing development costs by 8.5%.Improving Client Relations and Cash Flow Developed common goals between delivery teams and the client\'s deployment team. Simplified communication within the client\'s complex matrix-based ownership model.Received customer commendation for resolving a major incident with minimal end-user impact.Unlocked £25 million in cash flow by developing a new DevSecOps milestone structure.

The University of the West of England, Bristol

BEng (Hons)

University of the West of England

BEng(hons)