Bethan Timmins

Hello! I help enterprise software teams sustain innovation through ‘You Build It You Run It’

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I’m a Principal Software Delivery Consultant with a passion for creative problem solving and building things in the best way possible. I pride myself on accelerating time-to-market, making software services more reliable—both for teams building them and people using them—and building learning cultures in large scale organisations.

I often achieve these goals using the You Build It You Run It operating model, which I enjoy writing and speaking about. I’ve also co-authored a detailed playbook on the subject.

When I’m not working on any of the above, you’ll find me enjoying the beaches in New South Wales with my dog, Doddie.

Key skills and achievements

Building high-performing teams from scratch and developing existing teams
Agile delivery at scale
Product Management at scale
Working with teams that are co-located and distributed
Mentoring and coaching others in agile and product management techniques

What isYou Build It You Run It?

You Build it You Run It is a modern operating model that accelerates time to market, reduces the cost of failure, and creates high performance cultures.

Essentially, the model involves on-call product teams owning all aspects of their custom digital services, from inception to decommission. They launch to live traffic, monitor customer behaviours, and respond to production incidents themselves.

Adopting You Build It You Run It typically involves change for people, processes and technologies, but the benefits can be enormous. By significantly increasing your deployment throughput—without an increase in production incidents—you can sustain the innovation required to become an industry-leading organisation.

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