Can you recommend me?

As you know ... I’ve spent the last few months immersed in my book (and living off my savings).  Now that the book is under control ... I am, once again, available for short term consulting work.

If you are based in - or near - Scotland and you would feel comfortable recommending me then … can you help me out?

If you have friends or colleagues who perhaps need a little help to GET LOTS BETTER at delivering software projects then can you recommend me to them?

I'd really appreciate your introduction and I promise not to embarrass you:

• In the last year I've helped one extremely large company make tens of millions of pounds worth of extra profit;
• I've helped one very large company recover a disastrous relationship and in doing so make loads more money by delivering a strategic project on-time and in about half the expected time;
• I've helped two small-to-medium product development companies and one medium sized government department to figure out how to use TOC and Agile techniques to deliver software projects sensibly and profitably. 
• I've helped out a few "rocket scientists" too and I helped one hospital consultant to use TOC to reduce her department's waiting list from 23 weeks down to 12 weeks.
• Oh, and I'm on track to publish a book which business and managerial folk might describe as "The Goal ... but for software development" and I'm publishing it through one of the most respected publishing companies ever.

How do I work?   

I do Agile, but I do constraints-based agile, where my goal is to help businesses make loads more money and to help the people working in software development become much, much happier. 

I focus on helping everyday organizations and everyday people - not rocket scientists - to identify the few small changes they need to make that will give them very big improvements.

There's nothing particularly extreme or overly technical about what I do - in fact, most changes are to do with the marketing and management aspects of running projects rather than the technical.

Here are some areas where I can help:

• I can help organizations (big and small) that are considering agile for the first time but don’t know if or where to start. 
  

• I can help organisations that are trying agile but are finding that it hasn’t yet lived up to its promises.  (Sadly, this is very common).

• I can help organizations which have a big backlog of software development work to finish them much, much faster and make loads more money.
  

I'll be writing a bit more about my book and my approach shortly, but If you can help then please email me at clarke.ching@spiceupIT.com.