➜ ➜ ”Chris Hurney is an exceptional Agile coach and trainer whose depth of experience and passion for continuous improvement consistently elevate teams to new heights. His ability to translate complex Agile principles into practical, actionable strategies makes him a trusted guide for organizations navigating change. Chris fosters a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation—empowering teams to deliver value with clarity and confidence.” — I.T. Delivery Manager @  Southern California Edison 

➜ ➜ "I highly recommend Chris to people both inside and outside of SCE. I always look forward to listening to him talk about how we can improve our IT work. If you need help transforming your IT organization or a single team, Chris can provide valuable support. Despite SCE being a 125+ year old company with large and crippling processes, Chris was able to visibly improve SCE IT. Of all the Agile Coaches I have worked with at SCE, Chris has done the most to ignite the flames of transformation and agility, and his impact will last beyond his time with us." — Senior Enterprise Architect aka Chief Nerd in the Room @ Southern California Edison 

➜ ➜ "Chris and I met a couple of years ago at SCE during the Customer Service Re-Platform (CSRP) enterprise program - the largest SAP S/4HANA implementation for Utilities in the world. He offers Consulting engagements spanning SCADA systems, public utilities, avionics, big pharma, health care. The expertise he imparts is on empathetic working environment, safe spaces for demonstrating emerging technologies, agile/lean values and principles, and much more. Currently we're working on a feasibility study on implementing Scrum, Kanban, and collaborative development concepts at Asset Strategy Planning PMO. Glad to work with Chris and enjoy our collaboration!" — Project Manager @ Southern California Edison

➜ ➜ "I have had the privilege of coaching / leading agile transformation with Chris over the past years on some very complex projects and I have always been very impressed with the level of knowledge Chris has in the agile space. Chris is very detail oriented and demonstrates great empathy with the teams that helps to foster the agile adoption efficiently. As an agile coach I would love to work with Chris again in future."— Enterprise Agile Consultant & Coach @ Southern California Edison

Other Clients:

➜ ➜ SoCal Gas

➜ ➜ Sempra

➜ ➜ “My first interaction with Chris was working with a newly formed Scrum Team, for which I was Scrum Master. I like to take credit for how quickly this team started to deliver on Agile principles, but it was the coaching from Chris that made the difference. Chris has the ability to quickly identify areas of improvement with teams, provide guidance, and motivation towards improvement. At the Enterprise level, he provided a straightforward improvement plan for our company and identified specific areas and techniques to accelerate our adoption of Agile principles.

Chris also influenced me personally. I have been practicing Scrum off and on for about 15 years. As a mentor, Chris motivated me to join in with our local Agile community, and inspired me to continue improving my knowledge of Agile principles, frameworks and techniques.” — Product Manager @ Panasonic Avionics Corporation  

➜ ➜ “Chris, you’re easily one of my favorite agile coaches that I’ve crossed paths with in my career. Our weekly Thursday morning agile discussions at the Panasonic Avionics Corporation cafeteria were always enjoyable and informative. Any company would be lucky to have you! 👍” — Product Manager @ Panasonic Avionics Corporation 

➜ ➜ "Chris is especially adept at identifying process gaps, fixing them and then being vigilant in enforcing all while understanding the process must serve the business, not the other way around. He is very collaborative with team members in defining and implementing methodology that works for all and serves the ultimate objective. If you want someone detailed oriented to improve your team's efficiency and accountability look no further!" — Project Manager @ Allergan 

Other Clients:

➜ ➜ Actium Health: Custom EHR Software

➜ ➜ "It is pleasure working with Chris as our CSM. I appreciate Chris being assertive, but not demanding, in that role. He brought another voice of reason to our organization and provided us with the information required to help improve our processes. He is always aware of the current situation and escalates issues to management as they arise. I know there was a tangible improvement in our sprint planning results along with the clear understanding of how interruptions affected our delivery of sprint goals. I would highly recommend Chris to anyone in search of implementation or improvement to their existing AGILE organization. Looking forward to working with Chris on future projects."— Product Manager @ Cloudvirga 

➜ ➜ "Chris was our Agile coach at Cloudvirga. He was our Scrum master for my team. He brought the order to the Chaos. He championed the agile delivery process to win a crown jewel of agile process, that is the predictability of the delivery teams. He enlightened the higher management to adopt the agile process. He shielded our delivery team from push back and kept nay Sayers at bay to make the agile delivery a reality. He authored many articles in our company to keep all the stake holder on the same page. If you really want to benefit from the true agile process, you will find one of the best Agile Coach in him.”— Engineering Manager @ Cloudvirga 

➜ ➜ "I've had the pleasure of working with Chris a couple of times. Chris most recently served as our Agile Team Coach and Scrum Master in which he helped to better our process and brought more definition to our steps. An Agile Enthusiast, he is and I appreciated his fresh viewpoints and willingness to implement new processes and concepts. He has a great command for words and has a positive can-do attitude despite the challenges that might lay in his path. Chris fought the good fight championing for the Scrum Team's success whether that was recommending process change, chasing down roadblocks, persisting in the face of chaos, ... I highly recommend Chris for any organization serious about adopting/maturing in their Agile methodology." — SVP Enterprise Ops & Release Management @ Cloudvirga

➜ ➜ “Chris has a thorough understanding of all things Agile. During my time working with him I witnessed him closely evaluate each team he worked with, build strong personal relationships and trust with each person on his team and then create tailored strategies for any given team he worked with. His style is not to force a certain cookie cutter structure onto any team he works with but to truly understand how his team works, what everyone’s strengths are and then begin making suggestions and selling ideas to his team on how they can continuously improve. Ideas like mob programming (eliminates waste in the form of hand offs, encourages cross pollination of skills, etc) ideas like delivering incremental vertical slices of working software frequently vs big up front planning, among many other practices.

Chris has many skills but perhaps his strongest as a coach is to build personal relationships with his team and gain their trust which makes selling ideas to continuously improve infinitely easier. But Chris doesn’t just build relationships and trust to sell ideas, it seems he does it because he truly enjoys working with people and helping teams reach their maximum potential. Chris is a world class Agile practitioner and he has my recommendation any day of the week.”— Scrum Master/Project Manager @ Acorns 

➜ ➜ “Chris is an extremely knowledgeable, diligent, and motivational agile coach - one of the best I have ever worked with. His deep experience clearly gives him the ability to evangelize and educate a team on the core benefits of agile and scrum. But much more importantly, he brings to the table the right tradeoffs that must be part of the approach that a software organization undertakes as they mature into an agile team. In the time I worked with Chris, I saw him bring insights, focus, balance, and organization to our sprints, creating great cohesion among the team and unifying our efforts. That kind of growth isn’t possible without someone with years of deep experience leading the way. I confidently recommend Chris to anyone who is serious about becoming agile.” — Senior Software Engineer @ Acorns 

➜ ➜ “Chris is an absolutely fantastic coach. In a short period of time, Chris was able to bring our engineering organization from a crippling process-ridden development lifecycle to a streamlined approach of consistently delivering value to our customers. He observed our process and constantly delivered valuable, actionable feedback into where our pain points existed and thoughtful recommendations and techniques on how to remedy them. I'd highly recommend Chris to any organization looking to improve their agile process in any facet. I hope to work with Chris again in the future!”— Software Engineer @ Acorns

➜ ➜ "Chris was an important part in Ultra Mobile’s (Mint Mobile) Agile transformation from a disjoint waterfall/scrum process wrought with interruption and moving targets, to one of continuous improvement, continuous delivery, and a high-rate of achieving sprint goals. As a change agent, Chris brings a strong base of implementing process improvement aligned with Agile values and principles." — Principal Engineering Analyst @ Ultra Mobile 

➜ ➜ “Working with Chris for over a year at Ultra Mobile, he was perhaps the only person in the company to *actually* understand Agile and how to properly facilitate Agile Development. Most companies say they do "Agile", but it's like a religion -- they do the services, but don't keep the philosophy.

Chris, on the other hand, has a mastery of Agile and other lean software development methodologies, to ensure work gets done well and on time.

We would have been in much worse shape without him :)“ — Software Engineer @ Ultra Mobile

Other Clients:

➜ ➜ Mint Mobile

➜ ➜ “Speaker of Truth” is the phrase that comes to mind when I think of Christopher Hurney. I’ve have known Chris for a number of years through our common agility social circles and had the pleasure working with Chris when he and I worked as Agile Coaches at AAA. Chris has the unique skill of being able to distill complex agile concepts into real-world practical understandings that help change people’s perceptions and beliefs. He is a true multiplier, agilest connector and speaker of truth to power transforming companies and teams. Above all, I was impressed with Chris’s ability to use his conversational questioning techniques to helped others identify the gaps in their agile understanding as well as Lean wastes in the organization; turning a simple lunch into an agile “aha” moment. Chris especially shines when creating, communicating and collaborating, with other coaches and agilest in the community on how to resolve organizational debt and help the organizations become more outcome driven rather than output driven. Christopher Hurney would be a true asset for any positions requiring deep Agile Coaching or Agile Leadership skills, inspiring and informative training, meaningful mentoring, or most importantly truly trans-formative organizational change. I hope I can work with Christopher Hurney in the future and he comes with my most heartfelt recommendation.” — Enterprise Agile Coach @ Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA)

➜ ➜ “Christopher is an excellent Coach. What sets him apart is that he bridges the theories to the reality. He not only teaches the concepts, but also ensures organization adopt those concepts. He does this by keenly observing the current situation, sharing his observations, sharing the ideal state and techniques to go from current to the ideal state. I would highly recommend to any organization looking to be Agile and not just do Agile.” — Enterprise Agile Consultant @ Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA)  

Other Clients:

➜ ➜ Aon Hewitt: Health & Beneifts

➜ ➜ “Chris is probably the most informed and energetic agilist that I know personally. A true value-add to any organization.” — Certified Scrum Trainer @ Agile Coffee

➜ ➜ Army Research Lab: Weapons Inventory Systems (AIMS)

➜ ➜  Birmingham City University - Intelligent Behaviour Analytics