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Timeline
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2018
Adventures with Agile
Trainers, Coaches & Facilitators
Role : 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 Construction Products (UK)
Farnborough & Redruth
Role : Cultivate and Inspire Tired Teams, guide Leadership
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
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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)
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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
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
Lloyds Bank
Group Brands and Marketing
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
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
2013
Galaxy Digital Transformation
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
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 & Enterprise Consultancy
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
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.
Enterprise Data Warehouse
ScrumMaster / Iteraton Lead
Co-Located Team of 30 (-8)
Proxy PO/BA sat amongst team
Programme of seven workstreams
Established delivery practices
GRV Greyhound Racing Victoria
Online Betting
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
Agile Consultant
Role
Sarah 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
Online Multi-Channel Retail
Project
£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
Enterprise Data Warehouse
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
National 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.
Accident Management
ScrumMaster for Financial Work-Stream
Co-Located Team of 7 (+/-2)
Expert Product Owner sat with team
Programme of five workstreams
Established delivery approach