Experience
Since 2004, I've helped companies and organisations move to better ways of working. I've been fortunate to work with the following:
Stephen Daukas
Organizational Design & Leadership Coach, USA
''Chris is passionate about Scrum, Scrum@Scale and an excellent coach. He worked effectively empowering teams in a complex political environment where the organization was in transition away from traditional practices.
Chris demonstrated a range of coaching techniques with the people and teams he worked with. Chris was able to build rapport and impact change across all levels of the organization through his approachability and easy demeanor.
Chris helped the organization leverage Scrum and Scrum@Scale to align the organization around end-to-end value delivery while taking advantage of traditionally arranged practices and horizontal capabilities. Chris was able to impart knowledge and understanding of Scrum to the teams he coached through his experience and insight.
Chris was a strong partner and an asset in Ireland whom I could reply on without hesitation.''
Robin Bose
Agile Coach, Fidelity Investments, Ireland
''I had the pleasure of working with and mentoring Chris during my time at Fidelity. He is an excellent facilitator and extremely creative. His has extensive knowledge in the agile space spanning everything from Scrum events, team formation, scaling and leadership coaching, His amiable personality lends itself to building very effective working relationships with clients. Chris is a great asset to any organization.''
Thomas Gorman
Principle Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments, Ireland
''Christopher Watson the ultimate pro, Christopher brought so many skills to our team as Sm, the team had full and complete trust in Christopher due to the diligence, dedication, attention to detail and ultimately the way he supported us as the dev team. As a dev team we knew Christopher was always available to help. His positive attitude was infectious and got our team through some pressurised periods. Christopher’s knowledge and application of the Agile methodology is second to none .Christopher fostered a friendly welcoming open and honest atmosphere within our team as SM. Christopher would be an excellent resource to any team/organisation.''
William Rouet
Engine Systems, Bosch, USA
''Chris was a calm leader on a very complex global software project I worked with him on. He was able to utilise Agile practices to break down complex work across a global team of developers and testers he was leading. His ability to prioritise and create a product backlog helped the team to deliver key features and his knowledge of Scrum and Kanban was impressive''
Cecil Looney
Product Manager at United Language Group
“As part of the start up of our R&D team, Chris provided a great deal of knowledge and experience into the team to allow us to grow and deliver 2 key business projects within 5 months of the team launching. His knowledge of SCRUM, TFS and management tools around this process ensured both development teams, engineers and key management stakeholders were kept appraised of the project status. Chris was a key success to our team!”
Ian Bell
Business Systems & Applications Manager at Dublin City University
“Christopher worked with the IT and student services team in DCU on the requirements and delivery for a student led CRM system over 2015. Delivering CRM to over 14,000 DCU students and employers nationwide. It was a pleasure working with Chris and he demonstrated great aptitude to quickly getting to grips with the business requirements. Chris was well received across the business and proved both agile and empathetic to a number of different users. Christopher was able to interpret business requirement and translate into plausible technical solutions as part of a MS Dynamics upgrade and deployment.”
Ronan McDonagh
Engineering Manager, HPE
“It was a privilege working with Chris. He is methodical, organised and very creative. He genuinely has the client’s interest at heart, and works really well with the scrum team and the client to deliver good solutions.”
Stephen Mulryan
Experienced Software Engineer
“I worked with Chris on a number of complex development projects and he was able to articulate customer requirements that developers could understand and was great to work with as part of a dedicated team. On a personal level, Chris is a very easy person to interact with. I would highly recommend Chris, he would be an asset to any organisation.”
John McGovern
Co-Founder, CIO/Director of Intelligence Innovation at Quaenam Ltd
“Christopher was highly regarded by our clients who regularly commented to me that they found him very professional, friendly and easy to work with. He was also highly capable when acting on his own initiative and on several occasions he produced intelligence outputs that were innovative and well-judged and added real value to our work. I have no hesitation in recommending him highly”
Stephen Callaghan
Principal Consultant at EQE Health Ltd and Director at Global Pharmaceutical Applications Ltd
"Christopher is a hard working, flexible and dedicated professional. Chris worked with me on a region wide COPD project and all his work was on time, accurate and presented well. on top of that he is a very easy person to get along with making him a valuable member of the team and a great person to be with."