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Programme & Project Management
End-to-end delivery leadership for complex, high-stakes programmes. We manage large budgets, global teams, and tough stakeholder environments — and we specialise in rescuing engagements that have gone off track. If it's broken, we fix it.
Project Rescue
PMO Setup
Risk Management
Stakeholder Alignment
Budget Control
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Delivery Management
Structured oversight of your software and infrastructure delivery pipeline. We embed delivery discipline — velocity tracking, dependency management, release governance — so your teams ship predictably and your business can plan with confidence.
SDLC Optimisation
Release Governance
Pipeline Management
Agile & Waterfall
03
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AI & ML Engineering
Bespoke AI and machine learning solutions built for real business problems — not demos. We design, build, and integrate intelligent systems using contemporary frameworks, from predictive models to workflow automation and intelligent document processing.
Python
ML Models
Workflow Automation
AI Integration
04
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Python Development
Custom software built clean, tested, and maintainable. We develop bespoke Python applications — from data pipelines and automation scripts to full backend systems and API integrations — tailored precisely to your operational requirements.
Backend Systems
API Development
Data Pipelines
Automation
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Hardware Design & Programming
Custom embedded hardware solutions from concept through to production. We design, programme, and integrate hardware systems — bridging the physical and digital worlds for IoT, automation, and connected device applications.
Embedded Systems
IoT
Prototyping
Firmware
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Service Management
Design and implementation of IT service management frameworks that align your technology operations with business outcomes. We set up service catalogues, incident and change processes, and SLA structures that actually work at scale.
ITSM
ITIL
SLA Design
Service Catalogue
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Capability Maturity Assessment
We audit your SDLC, service pipeline, or any technology domain to identify where the gaps are, what needs remediation, and how to get there. The output is a structured improvement plan with quality gates and success criteria aligned to your corporate policy — not generic frameworks pasted onto your context.
SDLC Audit
Gap Analysis
Quality Gates
Remediation Planning
Technical Audit
Policy Alignment
What the assessment covers
- Current state SDLC or service pipeline review
- Identification of process gaps and risk areas
- Benchmarking against industry standards and best practice
- Quality gate design aligned to corporate policy
- Prioritised remediation roadmap with measurable criteria
- Stakeholder briefing and executive summary
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Executive, Agile & Performance Coaching
A qualified coaching professional — UCT certified, PMI coaching and mentoring programme alumnus, Comensa member, and LeSS (Large Scale Enterprise Scrum) practitioner. Derek brings a rare combination of executive coaching depth and hands-on agile delivery experience, built over decades as an agile evangelist and early adopter of agile philosophies and systems thinking.
Executive Coaching
Agile Coaching
LeSS
Performance Coaching
Comensa
Systems Thinking
PMI Mentoring
Coaching engagements include
- 1:1 executive and leadership coaching
- Agile transformation and team coaching
- Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) implementation
- Management and performance coaching
- Systems thinking facilitation
- PMI-aligned mentoring programmes
- Bytes Technology mentoring programme (alumni)