Simon Chesney

Executive Consultant

Simon joined Applied Frameworks in 2023 after more than two decades leading product development and company transformation in Silicon Valley. Simon was one of the first people to be accredited as an Internal Scaled Agile Practice Consultant Trainer (iSPCT), and teaches SAFe classes as part of Applied Frameworks' SAFe practice.

Simon has a distinguished career in product development and business systems, as a software engineering leader and cross-functional cultural change agent. He has led company transformations to increase business agility and customer-centricity, and has developed and introduced novel techniques to enable real-time trade-off analysis and distributed decision-making.

Simon is currently an SPCT-candidate, having been until recently one of the world's few iSPCTs - an SPCT certification tied to a specific enterprise. Additionally Simon is certified as a SAFe6 SPC & RTE, Certified Scrum Professional & Scrum Master, AMP-CCA (Certified Agile Change Agent), PMP and IUC (Influential U Consultant in Transactional Competence/Team Dynamics).

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Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in the late 1990’s, Simon spent a decade leading a small UK-based software & project management consulting firm. During the 2000’s he led File System Development at NetApp, also facilitating the company’s Whole Product Transformation and inventing their patented “Whole Product Gap Analysis” process. At Zynga Simon led development of cloud infrastructure and the CI/CD pipeline to support 240 million monthly active users playing the world’s largest on-line games. At Western Digital Corporation Simon introduced and led an Agile transformation that spanned multiple business units and established large-scale solution trains. Simon maintains professional & coaching certifications in SAFe, Agile, PMP & Transactional Competence and has presented his insights into culture change, portfolio management and delay-cost analysis at international conferences.