Ally Gill – An Introduction
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Ally Gill is a process management consultant based in Prague. She has over 30 years of experience in process improvement, quality management, and project management across various industries including telecoms, aerospace, defense, banking, finance, government, and pharmaceuticals. She aims to help organizations better understand processes and implement sustainable change through tools like CMMI, ITIL, ISO standards, Agile methods, and Lean/Six Sigma. In her career, she has led large-scale process implementation programs and created process frameworks. Outside of work, she enjoys blogging, sports, traveling, cooking, and trying new technologies.
Ally Gill – An Introduction
- 1. Who Am I? Ally Gill - PQM Prague, October 2014 Ally Gill – An Introduction
- 2. My Roots pag e 2 Kegworth – Home (1980-present) London – born and raised (1962-1980) Oslo – DNV ITGS/NSN Nodnett (2006) Zurich – Credit-Suisse (2010-2012 Prague – Novartis (2014-present)
- 3. My Values My goal is to help you to help yourself - through helping you better understand the body of knowledge, and how to use the tools and techniques available to bring about successful business transformations and outcomes, sustainable change and add genuine value to your business, staff and customers. ALLYGILL.CO.UKwas formally launched in September 2008, with a mission to educate the world that software process improvement is not enough; for sustainable commitment and robust return on investment companies need to embrace and integrate a software process management capability into their operations.
- 4. Working Life 1984 – 1989 Analyst Programmer/Systems Designer – Interactive Data Corporation (Chase), Micropal 1989 – 1998 Project Manager/Methods and Process Guru - Experian 1998 – 2006 Process Improvement Specialist/EMEA Business Improvement & Quality Leader – EDS (Rolls- Royce, Inland Revenue, MoD, Xerox) 2006 – 2008 Senior Management Consultant – Q- Labs/DNV (NSN, Vodafone, HMRC, BNP-Paribas) 2008 – 2016 Independent Management Consultant – ALLYGILL.CO.UK (Credit-Suisse, Thales, Jupiter, Novartis)
- 5. Key Achievements 1996 - Architect and PM for “Experian (UK) Rapid Application & Component Based Delivery Method” 1998 - Creation and implementation of EDS Rolls-Royce Project Management Handbook which standardised PM processes across the account and was seen as a model for global best practice 2001 - Programme Manager & Lead Architect for successful implementation of SW-CMM Level 3 processes across EDS UK Central Solution Centre (500+ staff) in 18 months 2004 – Business Improvement and Quality Leader for EDS EMEA Applications Development, supporting 15000 people 2005 - Key member of the core EDS Global Applications Delivery QMS leadership team and author of global deployment plan (50,000 staff), with implementation responsibility across EMEA (12,000 staff) 2006 - Creation and implementation of Nødnett Quality Manager System and PMO which led to restored customer faith in the project
- 6. Key Achievements 2011 - Consultant and mentor for Lean IT Management programme in Credit- Suisse, Zurich – directly responsible for triggering a reboot of the programme to better align to business requirements 2012 - Architect for the Consultancy Services model and Process Management Framework for Credit Suisse TIS GSO Process Consultancy Team 2012 - Interviewed for Bill Fox’s book – “5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success” (interviews with 30 SPI experts) 2014 - Author of “7 Deadly Sins of Process Improvement” – iBooks 2014 focusing on people problems in process improvement and change initiatives 2014 - Author of “5 Facets of Change Management” – in progress, a model for introducing sustainable change Speaker at ASQ ICSQ (Denver) 2007, UKSMA (London), 2008/2012, SEPG Europe (Prague) 2009, BCS UK SPIN (London) 2015
- 7. Local/Team Department UKMultiple Business Units Europe Global Sphere of Influence 1984 1987 1998 2006 2008 2013 Now Timeline Domains Telecoms Aerospace/ Manufacturing Defence Banking/ Finance Government Technical Skills CMMI, ITIL, ISO9000, Agile (SCRUM, DSDM), BPMN, SW-CMM, Six Sigma, Lean, Kanban, PRINCE2, PMBOK, Programming (inc. C, BASIC, Pascal), MS-Office (inc. Project, Visio, Sharepoint), SSADM, OOAD, UML, Web Design/Management, Database Management Soft Skills Process Improvement and Management, Quality Management, Business Analysis, Management of Change, Measurement & Metrics, Project/Programme Management, PMO, Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Relationship Management, Communication Management, Training and Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Facilitation Ally Gill ally@allygill.co.uk +44 7545 595 885 www.allgill.co.uk http://allygillcouk.blogspot. com Pharmaceutical
- 8. And I Have A Life Outside Work Lifelong bachelor but in a long term relationship – 8 years and counting I play Pétanque (French Boules), and have represented both Leicestershire County and the East Midlands Region Blogger – - The Apple Harvest (Apple hardware and software), - ALLYGILL.CO.UK (Process Management and Quality), - I’ll Czech In Later (A New Expat in Prague) Walking and Climbing – all over Europe Food and Drink – Cooking, Beer, Vodka and International Cuisine Gadgets – early adopter for new technologies
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