Solicitors Regulation AuthorityBusiness Architect
May. 2018 - Dec. 2019Birmingham, United KingdomThe SRA is changing with a programme modernising IT at all levels. While simultaneously transitioning to a DevOps operating model combined with Agile. In addition, delivering two critical projects enabling it to meet regulatory obligations. • Business Architecture function and collateral: developing & maintaining the organisation’s Business Architecture vision & strategy, and wider capabilities and processes
• Consolidated and developed business process and capability models while establishing a team passionate about supporting the SRA to understand itself and evolve • Designed the portfolio prioritisation approach (known as SRA Futures) and created elements of the ‘Playbook’ – a flexible, layered and right-sized framework for project delivery that brings clarity & direction to standard activities in a project
• Supported Agile transformation transitioning from Waterfall by coaching staff, including 1:1 support for Product Owners, Project Managers, Release Manager, Business Analysts, Scrum Master, other Architects & the Head of Development, on practices, tools, & practical approaches to planning, managing & reporting under Agile • Facilitate the SRA’s ability to embrace new Standards & Regulations by rapidly creating a project team, mapping a way through the new regulations, and to ultimately design a single common solicitor register
• New website migration, delivered in partnership with an external supplier, was delivered in a quarter of the planned time and for a quarter of the agreed cost
• Developed the Business Case to introduce a new Solicitors Qualifying Examination, deliberately structured to conform with the project delivery framework in order to ease project initiation, track progress by key deliverables, and demonstrate success and benefits delivery
• Revolutionary use of Azure DevOps to manage work during the Idea through to Elaboration phase as well as the traditional ADO usage of managing work through Build, Test and Deployment only