Agile Coach, EPAM 2013-2017
Overview: coaching teams, managers and business partners to help improve the way we deliver projects, products and services.
Roles, Clients/Projects:
- Agile Coach, Telus
Coached team members, product owners, and managers who were mostly new to Agile; introduced them to Scrum and some elements of Kanban & Lean; worked with them (and other parts of Telus) to identify and reduce/remove impediments
Coordinated with other coaches and transformation team, to introduce & compare various techniques and practices
Paired with a coach based in Vancouver; shared coaching tips & learnings, to help remote / distributed teams with Agile adoption
- Agile Ambassador, EPAM
Organiser & facilitator of the EPAM Canada Agile Community [ongoing]
- Agile Coach / Project Manager, Canadian Tire
Short project to replace largely manual process with semi-automated workflow
Worked closely with local business end-users and offshore (Ukraine) development team.
Coaching was mostly for business team who had not worked with Agile dev teams before Introduced role of Product Owner; helped PO work with stakeholders to create product backlog, and to prioritise backlog items
Helped PO manage backlog changes, clarifying impact of scope changes, focus on most valuable items given short timeline
Engaged in offshore team retrospectives and facilitated joint retrospectives with dev team and PO
- Agile Coach, enterprise Project Management Office, Canadian Tire
Developed assessment tool; interviewed team members, PM and senior managers; recommended next steps for organisational change
Introduced lean coffee sessions and agile book club
Coached scrum masters, team members, and product owners on various projects as requested
Coached ePMO team & worked with them to transition PMO processes towards more Agile / lightweight thinking
- Agile Coach, Business Intelligence project, Canadian Tire
Coached 3 PMs; helped them find collaborative ways to organise PM tasks as well as introducing more Scrum Master / servant leader approaches
Coached team members, PMs & business team on Agile mindset, Scrum, and elements of Kanban & Lean
Facilitated weekly lean coffee sessions
- Agile Coach, Frontier project, Canadian Tire
Coached team members, leads, PMs and product owners on Agile mindset, Scrum, and elements of Kanban & Lean
Facilitated twice-weekly lean coffee sessions
- Agile Coach, Merchandising projects, Canadian Tire
Coached team members, leads, PMs and product owners on Agile mindset, Scrum, and elements of Kanban & Lean
- Senior Agile Coach, EPAM Agile Competency Centre
Certified as an AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF); facilitated program-level assessment for a major client
Remote coach for EPAM development centre in Guadalajara, Mexico
Expert member of internal assessment panels for coaches, and on interview panels for external candidates
Mentor to new scrum master / coach
Corporate website: EPAM.