Tribe Lead & Engineering Director
iwow supported a company with their global tech delivery by providing a Tribe Lead who stabilized 23 concurrent projects, unified regional teams into a global organization, and introduced structured agile and AI-supported development practices.
Assumed responsibility for the full project portfolio, introducing structured tracking and financial oversight from day one.
Unified regional employees and consultants into a single global organization, closing competence gaps through targeted recruitment.
Integrated AI-assisted coding practices alongside standardized Sprint Planning to accelerate delivery of core data pipelines.
The client was transitioning technology delivery to a Spotify-inspired tribe structure, consolidating regional teams globally. This tribe managed the company's central data pipelines and needed a leader combining technical expertise in AI and automation with the experience to stabilize 23 concurrent projects and establish the new organization.
The 12-month assignment as Engineering Director ran in two phases.
- Phase 1 (months 1–6): Assumed responsibility for 23 concurrent projects, introduced a standardized project coding system for structured tracking and vendor invoice mapping, and established reporting frameworks for management.
- Phase 2 (months 7–12): Onboarded regional employees, identified competence gaps, managed recruitment to establish a 40-member global tribe, harmonized work methods, and introduced shared Sprint Planning across teams.
- Project portfolio stabilized across 23 concurrent initiatives
- Global tribe of 40 members established, spanning employees and consultants
- Standardized project tracking enabled direct mapping of vendor invoices to deliverables
- Unified Sprint Planning improved clarity and reduced context-switching across teams
- AI-supported development practices embedded alongside structured agile methods
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