Hi!

I’m Christian Miles.

I help companies deliver products quicker

I’ve worked with many well known names including British Gas (Centrica), Defra, Sainsburys, Dixons Store Group (DSG), Experian, Waitrose, next, M&S, Interserve, 3663, Wincanton, Scottish Power and many others. Helping them to deliver large and complex software products.
Over the last decade I’ve mainly worked with companies going through ‘agile transformations’, supplying agile, Scrum, Kanban and SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) training, consultancy and coaching. In addition to working with digital teams to design and build innovative new products.
I have a long history in software development, starting as a hobby in my parents living room in the early 80’s and professionally since the mid 90’s - In 1998/9 I got my first major project, to save the 🌍 from the Y2K 🐛 bug, the world survived so we must have succeeded :-) next was working in Java to build a cross platform, open architecture PoS System - Almost 2 decades later that system is still being used by many high-street names both in the UK and globally.

What are you trying to achieve?

HOW I CAN HELP

I know that "Ideal Agile" does not easily translate from the classroom to the real world! I spend the majority of my time working with real business's with real problems - and not in a classroom!

I offer various training packages where required, help with agile transformations but I spend most of my time onsite working with people helping to deliver products.

WHAT IS AGILE

Agile is not about process or frameworks it's not something that can be 'installed' into an organisation or copied and pasted from one to another.

It's a total shift in the way we think, operate and go about doing business.

It is not an end point it's a continual journey of learning how to learn and continual evolution.

MY VISION

"My vision is to be different from the larger consultancy and training firms - I won't sell you 'best practice', prescribe frameworks or dictate how your business should work!

After a number of years working freelance I created ‘That's Intelligence’ as a specialist boutique training and consultancy agency.

I aim to offer high quality custom bespoke training and consultancy based around helping your organisation achieve your goals.... Not mine”

“there is a real buzz about them here at the office! Everyone who has attended has loved it! Lovely side conversations about the games ‘I’m not going to tip you off as it would spoil it but we had great fun learning’ – ‘did you fall in the trap I did? Ha ha’ I personally enjoyed hearing a couple of the BA’s buzzing about flow. Also get a sense you are breaking down some of our internal silos in the process as you challenge the teams to work together – fewer boundaries and handoffs, one team etc.”