Agile Outcomes
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Agile that shows up in the numbers.

Agile Outcomes is the consultancy of Russ Wingfield. I help technology organisations plan clearly, deliver steadily and prove it with data, from a two-week health check to a leader embedded in your delivery.

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Worked across financial services recruitment data and publishing software products

Release burn-up

Illustrative data, not a client

Today, week 8
19 of 30 done
Forecast finish
Weeks 12–13
Forecast spread
1 week

Same scope, same target date. Steadier flow narrows the forecast, so leaders can plan around it. Hover or use the arrow keys to inspect each week.

Services

Six ways to work together.

Start small with a health check, or bring me in to lead. Each engagement is scoped up front, with clear deliverables and a defined finish. Pick the one that sounds most like your situation.

Diagnose · 2–3 weeks

Delivery Health Check

A short, evidence-led look at how work really flows from idea to release and what gets in the way. You finish with a shared picture and a plan, not a slide deck of opinions.

What you get

  • A baseline of flow metrics: lead time, deployment frequency and backlog health
  • A map of how work moves and where it waits
  • A review of planning, prioritisation and team practices
  • A prioritised plan for the first 90 days
  • A readout for your leadership team

How it runs

Length
2–3 weeks
Format
Alongside your teams, on site or remote
I need from you
Access to your work-tracking tools and a handful of conversations with leaders and teams
  • One shared, evidence-based picture
  • The first three changes worth making
Where this has worked · recruitment platform

Set a baseline of delivery metrics across 11 teams in three countries, giving leaders their first consistent view of where to improve.

Field notes

What changed when I did this before.

Results from earlier roles, with employers left out. I am happy to share more context in conversation.

Transformation · financial services group

2× release frequency

Monthly releases became fortnightly while throughput rose, after forming stable cross-functional teams on Kanban and Lean principles.

Interim leadership · programme delivery

8 new partner schemes in a year

Up from two the year before, by governing delivery across multiple business partners.

Interim leadership · c.40 engineers

<2.5%

Annual staff turnover through a period of growth, with continuous integration, pairing and test-driven development as standard practice.

Leadership · department of c.220

75%

A record engagement score, backed by an internal communications strategy and consistent line management.

Measure · software start-up

+40 NPS, up from −50

Responsive, knowledgeable support for clients, alongside guiding c-suite stakeholders through new delivery metrics.

How I work

Agile is the means. The outcome is the point.

  • Start from the data

    Before I recommend anything, I baseline how work really flows: lead time, deployment frequency and backlog health. Opinions come second.

  • Change the mindset first

    Frameworks are the easy part. Transformations stick when the way people think about value, ownership and improvement shifts.

  • Work at every level

    From the c-suite to Product Owners and engineers. Strategy that teams cannot act on fails, and so do practices that leaders cannot see.

  • Leave capability behind

    I coach, train and mentor so your people can run it without me. That is servant leadership applied to a consultancy.

About

I have worked on this from every seat.

I started in 2001 as a programmer, so I know what delivery feels like from inside the code. Over the next two decades I moved through Scrum Master, development manager and Head of Development, then into leading an agile practice, coaching, and consulting at enterprise scale.

That path shapes how I work. I care about engineering practice as much as ceremonies, I treat data as the starting point for any change, and I aim to leave teams able to run without me. I am a motivational leader who likes to lead by example.

Outside work I am a club runner, usually entering a 10k or half marathon each year, and I have played and coached American football.

Based
Hertfordshire, UK
Works
London, UK-wide, hybrid or remote
Sectors
Financial services, recruitment, data and publishing, software products
Methods
Scrum, Kanban, Lean, OKRs, continuous delivery
Practices
Continuous integration, pairing, test-driven development
Tools
Jira, Confluence
Background
Software engineering since 2001

Get in touch

Tell me what you are trying to deliver.

A few lines is plenty. I will tell you whether I can help and which of the six engagements looks like the right first step.

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