• Work for multiple clients delivering SAFe training, running events for the BCS and Agile Alliance, promoting Agile 2023 with Lyssa Adkins & others, attaining certifications in AI, Leadership and Training of critical thinking. Guest conference speaker in Romania and India on Product Management and Decision making in organisational leadership. Critical thinking training in Malta.
• Extensive use of AI to rewrite a 900-page website for mobile, web, Google optimisation and on-site search. Use of prompt engineering for home page and AI generated scripting to rewrite the search pages and separately the content pages using a scaled approach to update. This resulted in over 1000 new users in the following month, a 260% increase in visits, better accessibility, standards compliance and over 500% increase in revenue.

• Agile coaching working closely with senior leadership and scaled agility leads to iterate and improve the ways of working to build production lines and cars. Successfully ran a number of workshops with the teams to adapt initial ways of working to better suit their needs within an adapted and scaled Spotify model. Rolled out changes to positive feedback. Moved from 3-month planning cycle to 3 month rolling planning.
• Delivered support to wider business on Jira and delivered company wide talk on critical thinking for the Agile Training School. Contributed and supported organisational improvement missions with Tata level sponsorship and JLR executive accountability. Collaborated across the Agile hub with other initiatives as needed and to provide cover. Extensive positive engagement from teams who responded well to a tailored agile approach driven by their specific needs.

Embedding agile in a NASDAQ funded fintech startup to build a SaaS product

• Leading agile adoption scrum/kanban and scaling in a SaaS startup. Introduced effective agile practices. Tooling: Azure DevOps with LLM AI tools to create PowerBI reports.
• Defined and tracked business metrics. Implemented Azure DevOps for workflow management. Implemented Azure DevOps reports. Implemented business process automation for the leadership team. Written reference available from the COO.

Rolling out agile at scale in an Irish bank to improve operational efficiency

• Worked with agile hub and agile teams and leadership to deliver training, facilitate planning events and support teams on a highly challenging time critical programme to adopt agile
• Understood and delivered the solution to the problem to alleviate diary congestion, lack of clarity in capacity planning, organisational set up and reporting and agreed ways of working

Taking on a partial agile transformation and turning it around into a success story

• Jointly set up and establish the Agile Centre of Excellence and advised the Agile PMO
• Wrote and delivered highly interactive courses on Agile 101, Squad Lead, Product Owner, Delivery Lead, Leadership to over 500 people. Spotify model with tailored approach.
• Set up Agile communities, drop-in clinic and organised external events to embed learning resulting in greater take up of learning, confidence in role and sharing knowledge
• Set up and developed central confluence space as a reference to support learning
• Coached multiple team members at multiple levels (team member to senior leadership, RTE)

Leading BT?s top performing agile tribe to greater agility and success during covid

Delivering the rollout of agility and tooling across 3 continents in investment banking

• Part of a coaching team across multiple sites and geographies to support the rollout of the Spotify model, coaching chapters, squads and tribes in a scaled agile approach
• Educated Product Owner, Scrum master and wider team in agile practices including scrum, DevOps, story mapping, Jira, backlog refinement and metrics

supporting rollout of scaled agile and tooling to distributed teams

• Educated team in agile practices including scrum, Kanban, story mapping, team canvas, OKRs, delegation poker, effective metrics, team collaboration
• Set up team tooling using Planview AgilePlace. Local point of contact for Leankit questions
• Part of a coaching team to support a programme of work involving cloud adoption and distributed teams. Helped 4 teams in my area to adopt agile practices and tooling.
• Supported PI (Program Increment) event for the programme using SAFe practices as RTE
• Introduced agile practices and culture to senior leaders, team members and recent hires.

Delivering the rollout of agility in teams and tribes across the UK

• Refined and updated Lloyds bespoke Agile practices for relaunch as Optimus. Worked closely with the core team in the Agile CoE refining and delivering corporate change across 18,000 colleagues as part of a whole bank transformation including new governance methods.
• Delivered training in Lloyds ?Scrum and Beyond? in Edinburgh and London.
• Ran DevOps Hackathon in conjunction with IBM in Hursley
• Supported the effective working of teams in Edinburgh and London in agile / scrum / Kanban techniques as well as configuring Jira and Confluence

Agile Project Manager rolling out Agile across a distributed development team

• Lead the rollout of agile practices in the distributed team, events and scrum practices including customer liaison. Set up and configured Atlassian Jira and Confluence to support effective working, documentation and reporting including Kanban boards and workflows.
• Supported the team?s effectiveness by contributing to the development and implementation of work practices such as development steps, branching strategy, DevOps and deployment approach, tracking technical debt and roadmaps.
• Delivery of GDS compliance digital service for HMRC and National Savings and Investments