I am a technology delivery leader, coach, facilitator, and problem solver with more than 25 years of experience across software development, systems and infrastructure, project management, product ownership, Agile delivery, and technical leadership. That range of experience allows me to look at technology work from more than one perspective: the people doing the work, the customers and stakeholders depending on it, and the leaders responsible for the outcomes.

Much of my career has focused on helping teams and organizations turn complex work into clearer plans, communicate better, and ultimately achieve more predictable delivery. Sometimes that means improving how teams plan and prioritize. Sometimes it means creating better visibility into risks or progress. Sometimes it means exposing dependencies or helping technical and business groups understand one another. And sometimes it means questioning a process that exists simply because “that is how we’ve always done it.”

Agile has played an important role in how I approach that work, but I do not believe a framework or methodology should be the goal. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Agile principles, traditional project management, and other tools all have value when they help solve the problem in front of us. The objective is never to make an organization look more Agile. The objective is to help it deliver better outcomes with less friction, to create more transparency, and to establish a clear connection between strategy and execution.

I have held the titles of software developer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Project Coordinator, systems administrator, and IT Team Lead. I’ve also filled the roles of RTE and project manager. In multiple roles, I have helped teams move from stage-gated delivery to more continuous delivery by improving customer feedback and reducing time to release. I have supported teams, the release trains they are on, and the organizations they are in through transformations. I have facilitated planning and alignment workshops across technical and business groups. I have developed and delivered training. I have worked with leadership to improve the systems and communications surrounding delivery.

Before moving primarily to leadership and delivery, I spent years building and supporting the technology itself. I worked in software development for roughly eight years and, before that, progressed from desktop support into systems and network administration and IT team leadership for a multi-location organization. That technical foundation continues to shape how I work today. I am comfortable talking with developers, infrastructure teams, product leaders, executives, vendors, and customers because I understand both the technology and the organizational realities around it.

Improvement works best when it is collaborative. I don’t bring a prepackaged transformation checklist with me to force upon an organization. I help organizations understand where they are today, where they want to be, and what is preventing progress toward that goal. I work to establish practical improvements through safe change experimentation where we learn from the results and refine the process along the way.

Some people call that an Agile Transformation or Better Business Agility. More recently, people have shifted to calling it delivery improvement or process improvement. Some might go so far as to say I facilitate operating-model change, but ultimately I solve problems. The label doesn’t matter. The outcome does.

This is not my journey alone. This is our journey. Every team. Every organization. They all teach us something new. We make the best decisions we can with the information available. We remain open to new information and continuously improve the way we work.

That is what Our Agile Journey means to me.

Adam Myhr
ICP-ACC | ICP-ATF | PMI-ACP | SAFe Practice Consultant | PSM I | PSPO I
Licensed Agile Fluency® Facilitator

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