About McKenna Agile Consultants
McKenna Agile Consultants is a trusted agile partner for many organisations around the world. We believe in the potential of an organisation empowered by high quality, value-delivering systems. We are experienced transformation engineers and coaches, dedicated to helping our clients achieve better business outcomes through Agile Training, Coaching, and Consulting. We transform people, teams, portfolios, products, and leaders with the tools and frameworks needed for our client's unique contexts.
Our roots stem in the desire to build high quality, professional, value-delivering systems through our work as professional computer programmers. We leverage this in our work as agile change agents by enabling our clients to deliver according to their specific use cases and desired outcomes.
We understand the broader context surrounding agile transformations, and the complex, ever-shifting development landscape. We are framework agnostic, and dedicated to delivering the right agile solution for our client’s unique context.
We supplement business leaders and teams when and where they need us. By helping our customers create a strong and secure agile foundation, we enable people and teams to focus and deliver. We develop agile leaders and create better ways to work.
We Believe In
Nurturing People
Great people create great products. We believe that people are your organisations greatest USP. Our goal is to enable people to thrive.
Driving Quality
Quality is at the heart of everything that we do. We believe that focusing on driving quality leads to greater people and greater products.
Leading by Example
The only thing that we can really control is ourselves and how we lead. That's why we believe that it's important to lead by example when working with Clients.
Tangible Results
Being Agile is not the end goal. We strive to understand the "Why" behind your aspirations and measure our success based on that.
Aaron McKenna
Head of McKenna Agile Consultants and Agile Coach
Aaron McKenna is experienced in leading, transforming, working in, teaching, coaching and consulting in Agile methodologies across multiple geographies and timezones for over 12 years.
Most recently, Aaron has been an integral part in multiple global SAFe implementations, one for a multinational food, snack, and beverage organisation with revenues of over $60billion and over 250,000 employees and secondly for a large US based financial services company of over 15,000 employees and revenues of over $8billion. On both transformations McKenna Agile Consultants provided transformational thought leadership, lead coaching, remote working workshops and executive consultancy on multiple programs, launching multiple Agile release trains, spanning 4 continents.
Aaron is also uniquely experienced in enabling an Agile approach to the deployment and adoption of a SAP transformation. Through McKenna Agile Consultants, Aaron has been able to train and work with teams and programs in the UK, USA, Central America, Mainland Europe, the Middle East, India and China.
Amongst numerous certifications he lists Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practice Consultant (SPC), Collaboration Superpowers Facilitator, Management 3.0 Licensed Facilitator, LeSS Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, Product Owner and Professional amongst them.
Nick McKenna
CEO of McKenna Consultants and Agile Coach
Nick McKenna is the CEO of McKenna Consultants and responsible for leading the software development services. McKenna Consultants are an experienced UK software development company offering bespoke software development services for your business.
Nick is an experienced Agile software developer, as well as a technical Agile coach, consultant and trainer.
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