Matt Gillig Project Delivery Lead, Origin

About Matt Gillig

Matt Gillig started his career as a Business Analyst working with Hedge Funds before moving into project delivery/transformation at Westpac and CBA. Now at Origin, Matt is able to combine two interests and bring his enthusiasm to both coaching and renewable energy technology. His work spans coaching teams across the organisation on ways to improve collaboration, planning and delivery. Primarily focused on bringing agile concepts to heavy infrastructure businesses, Matt is passionate about using agile concepts to help teams trial and commercialise next generation renewable technologies.

Origin Energy and Allegro, a battery startup, are piloting a scalable battery able to generate power for 10+ hours. Similar projects have previously used Waterfall, this project is using Agile concepts to shorten feedback cycles, speed up design iterations, and manage risks and assumptions better.

The project involves teams from three companies, who are collaborating around design outcomes instead of traditional project deliverables. Slicing work this way means earlier involvement of technical specialists and enabled the team to prepare regulatory applications faster.

Using frequent showcases, the designs evolved quickly from sketches to detailed drawings.These showcases have increased clarity, action, and risk mitigation. Agile concepts enhanced the feedback loops and reduced internal and external silos.

Attend this lightning talk to hear how this project is going!