Craig Cockburn

New role, head of Function. IT delivery and org wide process improvement related (£100M+ turnover, platinum investors in people).

Red Team Thinking helps leaders make better decisions faster in today’s complex world. It does this by arming decision makers with an array of simple-to-use, yet incredibly powerful, applied critical thinking tools and groupthink mitigation techniques developed by the military and intelligence agencies. By applying these methods, businesses and other organizations can respond more quickly and effectively to new threats and opportunities, allowing them to become one of the disruptors, rather than one of the

Spoke at Agile London Tour 2019: Topic: Visualising Strategy http://2019.agiletourlondon.co.uk/Session/visualising-the-why-strategy-and-roadmaps-in-context/ Content: https://medium.com/@siliconglen/strategy-maps-bcb81b0dea49 Feedback: https://twitter.com/moran_matthew/status/1185185083407392768 Also spoke at Agile Exchange 2020. 600+ attendees. Edinburgh Napier University 2021 Edinburgh University 2022 Cluj, Romania 2024 Bangalore, India 2025

Set up Siliconglen Ltd in 2001 and which now covers my work in Critical Thinking, Agile Leadership and Non Exec Directorships Since Feb 2016 have achieved the following: Launched https://www.craigcockburn.com including my Youtube channel Continued in my capacity as a director of Dot Scot Registry Leading SAFe 4.0 (Scaled Agile Framework); SPC 4.0 (SAFe Program Consultant) Continued as Committee member, BCS Agile Specialist Group. Assisted with London Lean Kanban Days conference 2016 onwards. Diploma with

Expert Practitioner with the HiveMind network https://thehive.hivemindnetwork.com/members/craig_cockburn/ Delivered talk on #redteamthinking

Delivering greater collaboration and more effective ways of working in a car factory Plus talks on critical thinking, neurodiversity and advanced training Customer feedback: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/engr-ahsan-raza_scrummaster-agile-professionaldevelopment-activity-7351607359594512384-yGmb

Agility lead introducing and embedding the effective use of agile in multiple scrum teams and across the organisation to support better longer term planning through metrics and continuous improvement. Extensive use of Microsoft Azure Devops for Kanban/Scrum boards. Built and deployed various dashboards in Microsoft ADO and PowerBI to make key business metrics visible and to see change over sprints and over quarters. Extensive use of ChatGPT to assist with PowerBI coding. Worked closely with the CTO, CPO and

We’re here to help the IT industry tap into the diversity of thought in the broader community, support neurodivergent individuals within the industry, and help raise awareness of neurodiversity’s contribution to broader society through the IT industry. https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2022/november/webinar-a-meeting-of-agile-and-neurodiverse-minds-agile-methods-sg/

Certified training delivery of Scaled Agile SAFe Agilist, SAFe POPM, SAFe Product Management and SAFe Scrum to multiple London based clients both fully remote and fully onsite. High pass rates and positive feedback received. I am certified in the delivery of all these courses plus RTE and Lean Portfolio Management.

The Scottish Government backed not-for-profit company that runs the registry for the cultural and linguistic top level internet domain for Scotland (launched 2014). Our website is at https://dot.scot/ News coverage: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/293230-thousands-of-dot-scot-domain-names-registered-in-first-hour/ Key users include www.gov.scot (The Scottish Government) firstminister.gov.scot/ (The First Minister of Scotland) alexsalmond.scot (Former First Minister of Scotland) welcome.scot (The official gate

Elected to the newly formed BCS Agile Specialist group in Jan 2012 and re-elected at the subsequent AGMs. Please visit our website - we organise events (about one a month) of interest to the Agile community in various locations. We are vendor neutral and method neutral. We are on twitter @BCS_Agile. We organised the London Lean Kanban Days #llkd conference in Central London each year (now Lean Agile London) 2018 Agenda here: https://londonleankanbandaysllkd18.sched.com/ 2019 Agenda here: https://llkd19.sch

Short training engagement using my SPC6 enablements to deliver multiple training courses in Scaled Agile to well over 100 leaders in a financial services end client (Leading SAFe, SAFe PO/PM, SAFe Scrum Master). Feedback excerpt attached. High pass rates.

Agile Coach for AIB Dublin. Working as part of a CoE and helping a number of teams to get established in agile ways of working and migration onto the Agile Ways of Working programme and standardised quarterly planning and reporting. Many team members were new to agile and needed 1-1 coaching in tooling and getting started with Jira and Scrum. Delivered course on Kanban to the organisation.

Engagement of almost 2 years. 100% Remote. Coached teams, created multiple training courses and delivered to several hundred colleagues. Helped to set up Agile Centre of Excellence, define and roll out new organisational processes and coach teams.

See https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/trainer-list/trainer-profile/?id=4468&full_name=Craig%20Cockburn

Advisor, Red Team Thinker and Country Ambassador for the Agile20Reflect festival. From a small idea in July 2020 in the middle of lockdown, the festival has pivoted, grown and gone global as a month long global series of events to mark 20 years since the Agile Manifesto was signed in Snowbird. Looking on agile, past, present and future. Embracing diversity, multiple languages and talks around the world and in conjunction with the Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, Project Management Institute, Business Agility

Onboarded during Covid19 fully remote work from home to support 10 teams, leadership and the wider agile programme as part of a large agile transformation. Tooling using Mural, Jira, Confluence, Jira Align. Methods mostly Spotify, SAFe. Gave internal talks to the wider programme on neurodiversity and on strategy. There is an endorsement from one of my colleagues Phyroze Mohamed for the work I did at BT in the endorsements section of my LinkedIn profile

Assignment for Morgan Stanley (Enterprise Agile Coach, Agile Transformation). Based in London Docklands

Enterprise Agile Coach based in London supporting distributed teams across three continents on their agile journey (via UST Global)

Enterprise Agile Coach working in Regulatory reporting helping a number of distributed agile teams in agile practices. Received advanced training in Leankit, set up boards for teams and supported teams in use of the tool. Ran a number of webinars and wrote articles on agile practices (OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, Team Canvas, Feature Teams). Collaborated with the wider agile community on systemic improvements. Helped set up cool wall which resulted in senior leadership involvement in cross domain impro