About us

The team behind the Agile Angel.

We're not theorists. We've led strategy at BMW, digital at the Financial Times, and advisory at Gartner. We've seen what works (and what doesn't) across 500+ organisations.

There's not much
we haven't seen.

Quantum of Value has worked across a deliberately broad spectrum. The patterns repeat. The fixes travel.

Financial Services
Government
Investment
Publishing
Retail
Utilities
Professional Services
Education & Research
High-Performance Computing
Marine Technology
Drone Technology
Telecoms
Josef Bacher

Josef

Strategy Director at BMW
VP at Gartner Financial Services

Josef has spent his career at the intersection of business strategy and Agile delivery. He started at BMW, where he saw organisations waste millions building the wrong thing. That experience never left him.

At Gartner, he advised some of the world's most complex organisations on their digital transformation journeys. But advising from the outside wasn't enough. He wanted to be the person in the room making the hard calls, closing the gap between boardroom ambition and delivery reality.

That's why he founded Quantum of Value with Allison. Because sustainable change requires both clear strategy and the courage to execute it. Josef doesn't just advise. He walks with you, and he's been the one holding the pen when the decisions get made.

His approach

Strategic clarity

Organisational design

Turning complexity into action

Allison Bacher

Allison

Co-founder of Performalise
Former leader at Gartner & the Financial Times

Allison Bacher is co-founder of Performalise and a trusted advisor to senior executives leading digital and Agile transformation in complex organisations.

She started out in sales before moving into leadership at Gartner and the Financial Times. At Gartner she advised CIOs, senior civil servants, and executive teams on technology strategy and large-scale transformation. At the Financial Times she helped drive the shift from free to paid digital content.

For more than 15 years she has helped boards and C-suite leaders improve delivery performance and strengthen accountability, taking the risk out of how big initiatives actually get executed. Her style is direct and commercially grounded. She is good at helping leaders cut through Agile theatre and focus on the outcomes a business can measure.

Alongside her advisory work she coaches executives, helping them navigate complexity and make better decisions when the pressure is on, so their organisations deliver results consistently rather than in fits and starts. A sought-after speaker and facilitator, she challenges leaders with clarity and commercial pragmatism, and with the credibility that comes from having done the work herself.

Her approach

Strategic advisory

Executive coaching

Delivery performance

Sam O'Connell

Sam O'Connell

Operations Manager
Professional Scrum Master

Sam's career started in the legal industry, where precision wasn't optional. It was the standard. That commitment to getting things right first time shapes everything at Quantum of Value today.

A Professional Scrum Master with a decade of experience. Fluent Japanese speaker. Sam applies Agile practices to run our own operations, so the same rigour we champion for clients shows up in how we work internally. The result: a client experience that holds up, every time.

Her approach

Operational excellence

Internal Agile practice

Quality without compromise

Together

Josef sees the system. Allison sees the person.

Together, they address both, because sustainable change requires both organisational design and individual growth.

"The Agile Angel has two wings."

Our philosophy

Agile isn't a process. It's how you think, act, and deliver

The best transformations start with one person, not an org chart

90 minutes a week, compounded over months, changes careers

You don't need another framework. You need someone who gets it.

Ready to meet your Agile Angel?

Let's have an honest conversation about where you are, what's not working, and where you could be.

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