Meet Van

My name is Van Wray

I am an advisor and consultant who supports organizational leaders. I hold multiple certifications in Scrum and Kanban. My education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science.

I founded Amperant to equip organizations to understand their business at a glance and accelerate the flow of value. This is accomplished using the Kanban Method so that teams and organizations consistently deliver value that far outweighs their cost.

My Goals

I am going to drop the “marketing speak” here. I’d like to share my goals and a bit about my values briefly. You can then decide if getting to know me better makes sense. Your attention, my attention, is a precious resource, and it’s limited. So, I am going to honor that and likely break a few marketing rules in the process.

My goal is to enable you to delight your customers and be an exceptional workplace simultaneously. It is that simple and also that demanding. Delighted customers, sustained, are going to produce note-worthy economic outcomes, the financial litmus test. You will reliably attract and keep the best talent available if you curate an exceptional work environment.

We often experience lip service to these two goals. In practice, with career experience to validate it, we don’t experience either customers being delighted or a healthy workplace. Commonly we see values yanked straight from the industrial age, with modern sweatshop patterns of launching and organizing work. There is a better way— leaders are figuring this out, and so can you.

My Values

Briefly, here are a few values that drive what Amperant is about. This can be traced back to growing up in a farm community, getting through school washing cars and being a janitor, a life of faith, and soaking in the profound thoughts of authors, new and old. There are more, and this list evolves.

Do these resonate? Do we share some of these values together? If so, I invite you to linger on my website.

Discipline Equals Freedom

Habits are the Paths to Goals

Facts are our Friends

Motivation Follows Action

Own Your Wake

Be Truthful and Helpful

Is Amperant for You?

Amperant is dynamically being developed for certain organizations and leaders. Let me share about who that might be:

  • You create software to enable value for your customers

  • You are energized by technical excellence

  • You are accountable for getting results in the marketplace

  • You coordinate work across a network of teams, and improving this is a strategic advantage

  • You lead leaders

  • You need essential process and technical consistency across the organization and freedom everywhere else

  • You seek capacity for innovation and learning

What’s Next?

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