# Great Success

> Fractional and interim CTO leadership for EMEA scale-ups navigating the agent era.

## About

Great Success is a consultancy founded by Suzanne Daniels. One offering: fractional or interim CTO engagements, typically 3–12 months, embedded with your leadership team 1–3 days per week.

Suzanne helps EMEA scale-ups reorganise engineering for the agent era — the org design, the platform decisions, and the governance your board needs before your competitors ship it.

## Founder

- Name: Suzanne Daniels
- Role: Founder, Great Success; Chief Developer Advisor, Microsoft (2024–present)
- Location: Gouderak, The Netherlands (available across EMEA)
- Experience: 30+ years — telecom, financial services, ISVs, security, networking
- Frameworks: ISEE (Intent, Structure, Execution, Evidence), Agentile
- Languages: Dutch (native), English

## Selected experience

- Microsoft — Chief Developer Advisor (2024–current). Developer productivity strategy across GitHub, Azure, M365. AI-assisted development.
- DHL eCommerce — Head of Developer Experience. Platform strategy and developer productivity for DHL's e-commerce division in the Netherlands.
- Backstage at Spotify — Founding DevRel. Built the community, narrative, and adoption playbook for Spotify's open-source internal developer portal.
- Developer portal vendors — Strategic advisor (2023). Positioning, product marketing, and community for internal developer portal companies.

## What I do

Three proof areas underneath the one offering:

1. Org design for the agent era — restructure engineering for a world where agents write code, review PRs, and run deployments.
2. Platform & developer productivity strategy — internal developer platforms, golden-path roadmaps, DevEx investment cases.
3. AI adoption that ships — where to put GitHub Copilot, agents, and LLMs in your SDLC, with governance and a measurable rollout plan.

## Engagement shape

- Duration: 3–12 months
- Intensity: 1–3 days per week (fractional) or full-time (interim)
- Buyer: CEO, COO, board chair, or incumbent CTO of Series B–D scale-ups, ~50–500 engineers
- Geography: EMEA
- Not a fit: Pre-seed/seed, Fortune 100, staff augmentation

## Book (forthcoming)

A book about leading engineering when the engineers aren't all human. Topics: post-Agile operating models, platform-as-operating-model, the ISEE framework, decision velocity.

## Contact

- Email: hello@greatsuccess.nl
- Phone: +31 6 21 20 36 50
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/suzannedaniels
- Substack: thesuzannedaniels.substack.com
- Website: https://greatsuccess.io

## Company details

- Registered name: Great Success
- KvK: 91049938
- BTW (VAT) ID: NL004862106B50
- Address: Middelblok 24c, 2831 BP Gouderak, The Netherlands

## Links

- [Home](https://greatsuccess.io/)
- [Work](https://greatsuccess.io/work/)
- [About](https://greatsuccess.io/about/)
- [Book](https://greatsuccess.io/book/)
- [Contact](https://greatsuccess.io/contact/)
- [Agentile](https://agentile.org)
- [Full content](/llms-full.txt)