DONNA REED …principal consultant, Reed Consulting Inc, …helping you lead and develop teams in delivering business value as quickly as possible to your customers – by leveraging the right practices for the job (Agile, Lean. Waterfall, … or a combination), and delivering the right solution by collaborating very closely with your customers and users.
DONNA is a senior project / program manager with over 20 years experience in IT infrastructure and Software Development solutions for Fortune 500 clients such as: Adobe, Bank of America, Countrywide, FileNet, HP, IBM, Kofax, MasterCard, Toyota, UnitedHealth Group, Visa, Wellpoint and Wells Fargo.
She is very skilled at leading teams through the entire project life-cycle: from Business Planning and Analysis – Requirement Gathering – Design – Implementation / Piloting – QA/Testing – Manufacturing – Roll-out/Launch – Operations, Maintenance and Support. And has great know-how with leveraging the right project practices for the job while delivering business value quickly.
SPECIALIZING IN…
- Business Planning and Analysis
- Estimating, Scheduling, & Forecasting
- Scope Management
- Risk Management
- Business Process Mapping and Redesign
- Technology and Business Bridging
- Cross-functional, Matrixed and Distributed Team Leading
- Lean-Agile Coaching
- Your “Point person” for entire SDLC process: Initiation to Closing
- Leveraging the right practices for the job (Agile, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, Scrumban, RUP, ITIL, PMBoK… or combination)
- Lean-Agile Coaching
She is also the founder of THE AGILISTA PM (www.AgilistaPM.com). Enabling project teams, organizations, and manager to become as Lean-Agile as possible — helping them determine HOW, WHEN and WHERE to utilize Lean-Agile practices along with their Traditional Waterfall methods of doing projects.
In addition to providing consulting services, Donna speaks, writes articles, publishes newsletters, serves on the PMI Agile Community-of-Practice and local PMI chapters. (click here to see “2010 Trends in Project Management”)
Donna’s passion beyond helping her clients is the outdoors. She spends her free time playing tennis, biking, rollerblading, hiking, walking her dogs, gardening, spending time with friends, and enjoying great food (indoors or outdoors).
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…over 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE
- CERTIFICATIONS: MBA – PMP – Lean-Agile PM – ScrumMaster – Computer Science
- INDUSTRIES: IT – Healthcare – Financial – Automotive – Technology – Services
- PRACTICES: Waterfall, RUP, ITIL, PMBoK, Agile, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, Scrumban, SDLC or combination.
- KEY SKILLS: <click here>
- RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: <click here>
- RECOMMENDATIONS: <click here>
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…managing many TYPES OF PROJECTS:
- SOFTWARE: Product Management – Development – Integration – OEM
- APPLICATION: Development – Integration – OEM – Migrations – Monitoring
- IT and DATA CENTER: Migrations – Consolidations – Management – Virtualization – Outsourcing
- BUSINESS: Planning – Development – Start Up – Process/Workflow Design & Re-engineering
- OUTSOURCING / OFF-SHORING: Software Development – Data Center Operations & Support – Application Development, Maintenance & Support
- VIRTUALIZATION – Desktop & Server Environments – Server Reduction – Application Migration into Virtualization
- DISASTER RECOVERY: Site setup – Application Enablement
- HARDWARE: Development – Integration – OEM
- SERVERS: Consolidation – Reduction – Management – Upgrades – High Availability
- MARKET: Planning – Research – Product Marketing – Product Launch
- MONITORING: Hardware, Software, Infrastructure and Applications
- NETWORK: Design – Enhancement – Rebuild – Security
- DATABASE / STORAGE: Consolidation – Management – Tuning – Upgrades
- BPM / BI / ETL: Design – Setup – Management – Upgrades
- COMPLIANCE: Setup – Enablement – Audits
- VENDOR: Setup – Management – Migration – Training
- PMO DEPARTMENT: Setup – Management – Enhancement
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