Restructuring a technical organization

Birst’s leadership perceived that Product and Engineering were drifting and needed new tools, technology and processes to excel. They brought in Kyle as interim VPE to restructure the technical team.

Kyle’s approach:

  • Focused executive team on KPI’s for aligning development to business goals.
  • Reorganized Product Management and Engineering into one organization.
  • Deployed Atlassian tool set for Bug Tracking, Project planning and to integrate with Salesforce support product.
  • Created a new Agile SDLC to achieve better alignment from business goals to software delivered.
  • Added Git and CI/CD for efficiencies in the delivery of software.

Outcome:

A well-structured team with best practices in place attracted a long-term VP of Engineering.

“We brought Kyle in to manage a product release and implement new engineering processes and tooling. Kyle did a fantastic job in delivering the release and helping us become more agile and productive (and reducing my stress level).”

Rich Spickelmier
CTO Birst

“At Birst, Kyle served as interim VPE and substantially restructured Birst’s engineering processes, leading his successor to remark that ‘Kyle took care of all the hard work and allowed me to hit the ground running with best practices in place.”

David Kaplan
CTO Birst