Welcome

I'd Like to be Your
Agile Coach

Your teams don't need to be alone on their Agile journey

Agile Team, Enterprise, & Transformation Coach

ShuHaRi

INTRODUCTION
My passion is to arm Agile teams with the right knowledge, tools and training so that they’ll be able to use Agile to its full potential (which is infinite!)   It is important to focus on the fundamentals and to make Agile, in whatever framework you choose, accessible to everyone on a day-to-day basis through open ended questions and changing mental models.   It is tough but highly satisfying to guide teams to become high performing and to change a culture!

My developer background and technical experience combined with product focus has resulted in my ability to govern the successful execution of Agile Programs and Portfolios strongly aligned to business objectives.    My proven ability to communicate between technologists and management also contributes to the foundation for my success.


Agile Coach
I am a certified Agile Coach (ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) and Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC), and I have been a certified Scrum Master since 2009.    I had over seven years waterfall and RUP prior to that journey’s beginning (I was certified a PMP by  the Project Management Institute in 2001).  My experience is largely in enterprise, complex, high visibility projects both in software and web development (including SaaS) as well as databases, cloud, SecDevOps and infrastructure (PaaS).

In the 15 years I have been working in Agile I have used a variety of frameworks – SCRUM, Kanban and scaled frameworks such as SAFe & LeSS.  I was frequently the person responsible for transitions from other SDLCs to Agile.  

I have coached teams in Agile and framework processes and more intensively on stories, the role of testing (preferably TDD) in a SCRUM world and on backlog grooming and management. At the next level I have helped organizations to define and execute the movement from project to product based thinking and solutions.   

I have been responsible for setting up a continuous build-test platform on more than one occasion and have used, installed and configured all of the most popular Agile tools most especially Jira and Confluence.

What can I do for you?

Skills

  • Agile Team Teaching & Coaching
  • Developing Business & Technical Roadmaps
  • Organizational Models & Change
  • Scaled Agile Framework (Multiple) Proficiency
  • Implementing, Coaching and Teaching SAFe
  • Value Stream Identification & Mapping
  • Lean Portfolio Management
  • Moving from Project to Product
  • Advanced Scrum Master Skills
  • Master of Jira and Confluence (as Power User & Administrator)
  • Extensive Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines & Tools, AWS, DevOps, SaaS
  • DBs, Micro-Services, Java, React, Angular.JS, UI/UX Prowess

Industries I’ve Helped

  • Financial
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
  • Retail & Consumer
  • Software
  • Airlines
  • Electronics Manufacturing

Certifications