Andy Hughes

Andy is an SPCT at PA Consulting. He is an experienced product and organisational agility consultant. He works with organisations to help them amplify ‘agility’, maximise 'flow', and increase 'value'. He specialises in building alignment across organisations, agile product lifecycles and large-scale agile transformation. Andy's approach to is grounded in real-world experiences, focused on the human aspects of agility. He leverages his SAFe Practice Consultant-T (SPCT) and a Government Digital Services (GDS) assessor certifications to help organisations shape their delivery organisations to maximise customer value and actively manage product lifecycles from a customer value perspective. He works across a variety of sectors with a particular focus on including Healthcare, Government, Defence & Security, Financial Services, and Consumer & Manufacturing. His Agile journey began in 1999 as a developer working with Extreme Programming (XP), and over the following decades he went on to specialise in "human centred transformation" and "organisational agility coaching", working with many teams and leading several global transformations in both IT and non-IT contexts. He has trained/certified over 1,000 people, and regular speaks at events about product management, ways-of-working, agility and transformation.