Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments; and finding ways to fund, report, and integrate agile project work into existing organizational processes. Jamie Mades has found that the Lean Agile Portfolio bridges these gaps, applying lean product development flow principles to identify high-value initiatives and speed completion of work. It reduces risk...Learn More
Jamie Mades
LEAP Consulting
Jamie Mades is an enterprise transformation coach and consultant, specializing in portfolio implementations for organizations with existing agile teams. He has implemented lean agile portfolios across several companies, including FedEx and Cigna. Jamie has coached at all levels—team, program, portfolio—and spent the first ten years of his professional career as an Air Force officer doing nuclear launch operations and teaching space warfare. Jamie approaches his work with an eye toward individual psychology, organizational behavior, and creating structure by designing systems of systems. He is an avid meditator, travel junkie, and foodie who enjoys sharing and learning from others.