ABOUT | Luniel's Portfolio

A bit more about me

I started developing software products professionally in 1987 and although I've dabbled in non-software related enterprises, my true love has always been and will always be software product development.

Over my multi-faceted career, I've...

been a boots-on-the ground software developer, a project manager, a program manager, a product manager, a Scrum master, a Scrum product owner, a trainer, and a coach.

designed and developed 13 commercial software products "from concept to cash", to use an old product management adage.

managed several commercial products (software and physical).

been a capability manager of several internal capabilities, including massive data storage and manipulation capabilities.

been a people manager supporting software developers, project and program managers, Scrum masters, and agile coaches.

created and managed project management offices (PMOs).

led full-scale agile transformations, working with every level of the organization from executive to implementation.

been an executive (CTO, COO, and CEO) and I’ve served on boards of directors including being chairman.

developed and delivered dozens of training and coaching programs to teach lean and agile product development, project management, and organizational transformation and management practices.

I've been an agile product development consultant, trainer, and coach since 2012. I specialize in helping software product development organizations achieve demonstrably sustainable business agility and improved quality. In short, I know what it takes for an organization to achieve business agility and I can speak and work with any person in any organization regardless of their experience and seniority.

Over the years I've come to realize that the only way to sustainably teach skills and practices is through apprenticeship. This requires me to perform the actual work directly with trainees/apprentices while gradually transitioning the ownership to them until they have mastered it and can function on their own. I love this way of working because, while I'm transferring actionable knowledge and understanding to those I'm teaching, it makes me directly responsible for their results. It creates the types of professional relationships that are based on trust and collaboration, and it facilitates the transfer of knowledge and skills like nothing else I've seen.

I've also realized that without the right management support, such transformations and practices are doomed to failure; sometimes silently, and at times rather violently as the organization's "immune system" starts to reject the very thing that would save its life.

To that end, I work with executive, senior, and middle management; I work with project management offices (PMOs); and I work with the entire solution/product management and software development organization to create the understanding and support for the changes that must be adopted.