Louis Taborda

Dr Louis Taborda is passionate about positive changes in business, technology and society at large. Working across the program/project lifecycle, he has been at the forefront of solution development methods for over 25 years. In his diverse career he has held various roles including developer, architect, tester and project manager, as well as taking senior management positions in engineering, software, IT and service organizations. As the Chief Technologist for a leading software tools vendor, Louis was an early evangelist and coach for Agility and DevOps – before it had a name. He recently authored the definitive book on Enterprise Release Management, which extended his PhD research that explored scaling agile methods to complex, interdependent project portfolios. The PMI’s Australian Chapters awarded Louis the Distinguished Contribution to Project Management Award 2018, for his work to make research more relevant and meaningful to practitioners. Based out of Sydney, Louis consults internationally and continues to write, teach and research collaborative execution techniques that extend Lean-Agile principles to challenging, multi-stakeholder environments.