Kendra Skeene

Director of Product, Ad Hoc

Kendra is a digital strategist and product leader specializing in leveraging digital platforms to scale best practices. Named one of State Scoop’s Top Women in Technology for 2017 and 2018, Kendra is a champion for digital best practices in the public and private sectors.

As Director of Product for Ad Hoc's Federal Civilian business unit, Kendra leads Ad Hoc’s platform capability maturity team, where her wealth of experience informs her work with a team of strategists to assess the technical platform maturity of federal agencies and establish roadmaps to platform adoption.

Kendra

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Impact
June 8
How to make the business case for an Internal Developer Platform
When you see your organization solving into the same problems again and again, you may try to pitch a platform as a solution. But what if your budget-holders only see platformization as an extra cost center? How do you convince them of the value you know an internal platform brings? We’ll share our experience with how to speak platforms to management, pitching value in terms they care about.
Kendra Skeene
Director of Product, Ad Hoc
Andrew Gunsch
Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc
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Culture
June 9
A carrot and stick approach to raising the bar on application quality
A platform can provide powerful leverage to scale standards for organizations, making usability, security, and design consistent across applications. But how can you enforce those standards without adding hurdles so big that your users give up in frustration? Join us as we share what works from our experience across public and private organizations!
Kendra Skeene
Director of Product, Ad Hoc
Andrew Gunsch
Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc
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