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2021
bp
Agility Coaching for a global transformation offering 1:1 bp Internal Coaching for key leaders
2020
Rimilia
Establish Agile Practices & Methods
with Team Safety and Equal Voice
Role
A wonderful opportunity to work with a growing company as Rimilia focus upon their use of Agile Practices and Methods to bring about greater success.
Over time, as we were able to listen to their system, we crafted success with people and process that improved learnt and ingrained cultural behaviour.
Examples of our success
Communited of Practice to engourage team growth
Unoffical Toastmasters to support the delivery teams with public speaking
One to one Coaching for those members who valued extra support
Work with other areas of the business to organise their approach
Significant cultural change for the team members and therefore the leadership
2019
Rimilia
Establish Agile Practices & Methods
Team Safety and Equal Voice
Role
A wonderful opportunity to work with a growing company as Rimilia focused upon their use of Agile Practices and Methods to bring about greater success.
To begin with we focused upon the Team Health and established a workable Scrum Process to support delivery goals.
Example of what the teams needed
Daily Scrum / Stand-Ups (Call-In) reduced to 15 min goal
Team physical boards to learn how Scrum can support success
Use of JIRA to support reporting
Sprint Demo to share Business Value
Sprint Review to consider delivery team success and setbacks
Sprint Retrospective to consider the team process
Regular Product Backlog Refinement to make work ready
2018
Adaptavis
Accelerating Performance through
every day excellence
B2B Opportunity
Adaptavis invited me to support them in a short piece of work for RBS
Royal Bank of Scotland
Heath Check on Agile Programme
Role
As a team of four senior practioners, Adaptivas worked with the leadership and teams to understand how much progress had been made against the original plan. From here we shared the truth and facilitated the creation of a revised plan for delivery.
Adventures with Agile
Trainers, Coaches & Facilitators
B2B Opportunity
I met Simon Powers, the owner of Adventures with Agile (AWA), on specialist training. Here we both embraced that the have similar views and approaches on how to best support our clients. From here I have been able to support AWA to fulfil some unique client goals.
The Beautiful State: Achieving Higher Performance
Certified Agile Leadership 2 (CAL2)
ITW CP (UK)
Inspire Tired Teams & Support Leadership
Role
An unique opportunity to support two product teams, acoss two sites, who have been using the intent of Scrum will limited success. The reintroduction of our Scrum Values and Scrum Principles helped to empower the team members.
Agile Delivery Coach & Counsel
Distributed Product Teams across two sites
Required some careful engagement to reassure and align
Significant change to approach needed to adopt Scrum
2017
Adventures with Agile
Trainers, Coaches & Facilitators
B2B Opportunity
I met Simon Powers, the owner of Adventures with Agile (AWA), on specialist training. Here we both embraced that the have similar views and approaches on how to best support our clients. From here I have been able to support AWA to fulfil some unique client goals.
Certified Agile Leadership 1 (CAL1)
Marks & Spencer.com
Leadership & Agile Coach
Role
My brief was to support the Leadership Team of Marks & Spencer.com to consider their current world and address some of the recommendations from a recent PWC audit report towards Agile. My practical experience futher identified some areas where M&S.com could improve using SAFe to realise the intended value.
Reframe and mitigate recommendations from PWC Agile Audit Report
Reenergise, mobilise and empower team level engagement
Improve M&S.com awareness of SAFe
Provide SAFe Consultantcy for the M&S Transformation Team with TCS
Alani
for True Enterprise Agility
B2B Opportunity
Approached by Alani Enterprise Agility to support a SAFe implementation for Nordea.
Nordea Bank
SAFe Transformation Programme
Role
I joined an existing team of Coaches in the Nordics, after being approach by Alani Consulting, to support the continued rollout of the Scaled Agile Framework. Seven coaches supported Value Streams and Teams over four locations.
Promoted the assessment of Team capabilities
Raised awareness of well being and collective health
Took action as too many plates were spinning
2016
Barclays Bank
CIO Reporting - Portfolio Delivery Approach
Role
A fresh and exciting opportunity to consider Agility delivery approaches for various CIO Reporting portfolios, with distributed teams, who are already achieving degrees of delivery success. Establish broken bonds with the wider Business Units and Agility Groups.
Agile Delivery Coach
Distributed Teams of 250 +
Solid Barclays Coaching Community
Cultural change / relearning how to be successful
Walgreen Boots Alliance
Agile Centre of Excellence (CoE)
Role
My IT director from the House of Fraser brought me into Walgreens Boots Alliance with a view to scale agile practices within his IT department. Our previous work together had demonstrated the value that can be from running multiple Scrum Build & Test teams.
Member of a team of Agile Delivery Coaches
Scrum, XP and Kanban methods
Team support across all initiatives
Encourage business towards Business Product Owners
Significant organisational change / new delivery approach
2015
Agile Delivery Coach
Group Brands and Marketing
Role
Having been approached to support a bid from Optima, Lloyds approached me directly following my presales submission. The functions of Marketing Transformation were already in the throes of business change and need some support and direction to facilitate success. My goal was to offer the use of key Agile (Scrum, XP and KanBan) methods and practices with a view to scale successes in a business space (not software development).
Agile Adoption Assessments
Agile Communities of Practice
Agile Awareness Sessions
Trialled Agile Surgery
New WebEx Capability
Agile Experiment with Marketing Team
Bank of Scotland Incubator Team
Role
A fresh and exciting opportunity to consider Agility delivery approaches for various CIO Reporting portfolios, with distributed teams, who are already achieving degrees of delivery success. Establish broken bonds with the wider Business Units and Agility Groups.
Agile Delivery Coach
Co-Located Team of 20 (+/- 5)
Encouragement towards Business POs
Next step towards future Transformation
Significant change / New delivery approach
2014
Galaxy Digital Transformation
Senior ScrumMaster/Stream Lead
Role
Joined Lloyds Banking Group to support Public Site Refresh Theme and start their transformation from existing delivery practices to the viable adoption of Agile practices in line with the Galaxy Transformation Programme Accelerated Delivery Model.
Senior ScrumMaster & Delivery Coach for Public Site
Programme Distributed Team of 100+
POs available to the teams
Transformation Programme of seven areas
Established transformation programme
Programme of Work
Senior ScrumMaster & Delivery Coach
Role
Here I joined House of Fraser at an exciting point near the start of their Digital Transformation to act as their Senior ScrumMaster and Agile Delivery Coach. Their ambition to adopt an agile approach was new to the organisation other than the hire of senior specialist to create a core build & test team.
Establish a core senior team and reach agreement on approach
Off-shore third party (PMC) came on shore to build relationship and learn approach
Use Serious Play to reinforce learning opportunities with all team
Enabled delivery teams to be self-managing and self-organising
Escorted PMC back to Varoda in India to ensure practices were possible
2013
Galaxy Digital Transformation
Senior ScrumMaster/Stream Lead
Role
Joined Lloyds Banking Group to support Public Site Refresh Theme and start their transformation from existing delivery practices to the viable adoption of Agile practices in line with the Galaxy Transformation Programme Accelerated Delivery Model.
Senior ScrumMaster & Delivery Coach for Public Site
Programme Distributed Team of 100+
POs available to the teams
Transformation Programme of seven areas
Established transformation programme
2012
Agile Programme Coach
Australia's Largest Telecoms Provider
Role
Helped to bring to life a new programme of work from an idea with Senior Business Stakeholders through to building multiple work-streams to deliver towards a three year service transformation.
Delivery Coach for entire Programme
Co-Located Team of 21 (+/-7)
PO's available to teams
Programme of three workstreams
New delivery approach
Agile Leadership & Principle Consultant
Role
Approached directly to support an eight week Agile experiment with NetCracker and Infosys with a goal to advance beyond the delivery constraints of the existing approach.
Agile Leadership Team
One of three Specialist Capability Leads
Shape business delivery
High profile India Visit
2011
Telstra
Australia's Largest Telecoms Provider
Role
Having gained the support of the Leadership Team and then Business Stakeholders, I enabled a waterfall process driven delivery team to achieve their first release using hybrid Agile practices.
Examples of Coaching Success
Gained the confidence of Leadership Team and Business Stakeholder
Raised collective awareness of the 'highest priority first' delivery approach
Facilitated Infosys on-shore delivery co-ordination
Supported Infosys off-shore execution teams
Greatly improved long standing client relationship
GRV Greyhound Racing Victoria
Online Gambling
Role
$2.6m project to transform business delivery from administration based to customer self service Bespoke .Net web application hosted with Microsoft Azure Cloud technology.
ScrumMaster who established Project
Distributed Dev &Test Team of 14 (+/- 7)
PO available to Team
Project of two teams
New delivery approach
2010
SMS Management & Technology
Agile Consultant
Role
My wife and I relocated to Melbourne Australia so I could support a growing agile capability. Whilst adjusting to a new life, I identified and demonstrated the value in applying Scrum Practices to non software delivery within SMS.
High profile overseas hire with relocation
Demonstrated the value of Scrum to business areas
2009
Agile Project Manager
Online Multi-Channel Retail
Role
£4.3m project to replace the front-end Trade Counter customer transaction system for 150 branches. Reshape the customer experience for faster transactions, alternative products and product up-sell
ScrumMaster for Web Site Work-Stream
Distributed Dev & Test Team of 7 (+/- 2)
PO team available to support
Programme of four work-stream
Established delivery approach
2007
Agile Project Manager
Non-Fault Incident Management
Role
7m project to replace the end-to-end claims handling business systems and associated work-arounds. Increase the operational capability to accept and successfully claim or litigate cases.
ScrumMaster for Financial Work-Stream
Co-Located Team of 7 (+/-2)
Expert Product Owner sat with team
Programme of five workstreams
Established delivery approach