Consulting, Coaching and Training with Allan Kelly

Making companies and teams more effective and productive, creating great products.

Product Management, OKRs and agile

I have helped:

  • Challenged teams turn things around and successfully deliver new products
  • Clients and suppliers collaborate more effectively to achieve shared benefits
  • Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts enhance the value they deliver – while enabling teams to work better with their requirements
  • Companies win new business and improve return-on-investment by accelerating early delivery

By working with me, you’ll learn to:

  • Collaborate effectively—with experts, customers, and each other—to deliver what’s truly needed
  • Achieve business goals and deadlines by maintaining relentless focus and prioritisation, becoming more effective in the process
  • Innovate and solve problems creatively by treating constraints as challenges to overcome rather than obstacles
  • Organise work strategically to maximise value, meet deadlines, and minimize wasted effort

By blending modern management techniques such as OKRs, agile methodologies, and product management principles, I enable companies to boost effectiveness, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and drive superior performance.

The ultimate goal? Creating a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and improvement.

As a published, multi-book, author I regularly speak at company events and public conferences. Talk to me about talking at your evnt.

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Solutions

Specialisms

Whatever your business goals, pain points, and time commitments, I offer a range of solutions to help you, your team, and the business become the most effective version possible. Specialisms include:

  • Combining agile working with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
  • Product management and product thinking
  • Continuous improvement with bespoke agile methods
  • Shifting from Project to Product centric working
  • Modern management and troubleshooting digital work

Expert Coaching

Coaching involves facilitating managers, leaders, or teams to answer questions and guide them to develop solutions in effective ways of working that suit business goals and unique team dynamic.

Advising

Strategic advising involves providing an expert opinion and insight on a specific challenge – like to continue or kill a project, restructuring a technology group, transform an underperforming team, meet critical deadlines or product specific advice.

Training Workshops

Want something short and focused to brush up your skills, and enhance your expertise? I offer a wide range of training workshops such as:

  • Objective Driven Agility: combining OKRs and agile
  • Strategic Product Owner
  • Agile Software Development for Teams (includes Xanpan hybrid)
  • User Stories
  • Understanding flow with Featureban game

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Please get in touch if you require something specific, most of these workshops started life as specific requests from clients.

Partners

Scott Fulton, brings over 20 years of digital expertise to help businesses optimise technology use and enhance team productivity. Specialising in technology consulting, website and application development, and agile leadership training, Scott’s approach is focused on customer and employee satisfaction, efficiency, evidence-based strategies, and automation to prevent burnout and ensure organisational success. Outside work, he runs a large online car community, plays the drums and spends time with the most important people in his life.

Seb Rose is Software Strategies lead on technology. His experience runs from BASIC to Ruby via, C++, Java and more. Clients have included large companies such as IBM and Amazon plus many smaller, less well-known, firms. He’s a regular speaker at conferences, a contributing author to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, lead author of The Cucumber for Java Book and co-author of Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples.

Resources

Kanban Zone – the best online visual management system – try it for free with this unique link

Agile Stationery – games and tools for professionals, get Dialogue Sheets, Value Poker and Retrospective cards

Avenscoperta – partner for public training workshops

Get in Touch

Ready to start transforming your team and your business? Then let’s talk

Contact

Software Strategy Ltd.

Software Strategy Ltd is Allan’s trading entity.

Estabilished in 2007 and registered in the UK. Company number: 6177051, VAT number: GB 906 3372 34