BMW GroupSenior Agile Coach - SAFe
Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019Germany and South-AfricaSetup SAFe Trains with various distributed feature teams across Europe, South-Africa and United Kingdom. Setting up the trains included interviewing and appointments of various Agile Masters, a RTE (Release Train Engineer), and STE (Solution Train Engineer). Coaching in South-Africa and Germany on Enterprise Level. I travelled to Germany frequently to coach on team level as well as executive level to adopt the Agile way of work.Guide and coach the Executives, PO , PM, RTE, Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers
Ensuring SAFe is understood and the team adheres to Agile theory, practice, and guidelines of how the trains are functioning and the different roles within the trains.
Coaching development techniques that bring high performance to feature teams
Facilitates and supports all ceremonies: PI Planning, ART Sync, Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Retrospective, Inspect and Adapt Process
Communicate effectively with product owner, product manager and stakeholders
Coaching the product owner and product manager where stakeholder engagements needs to be held.
Ensure stakeholders have a voice in the Agile process
Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team
Conflict Management
Coaching the team on user story writing Ensure the team review their DOR, DOD and team agreement on a regular basis
Ensure the team apply the DOR and DOD to all stories pulled into the iteration Coaching Practice & Capability
Facilitation: Facilitated leadership and team discussions with leaders and members and adapted facilitation techniques to other situations.
Teaching: Provided training at leadership and team level. Servant Leadership: Guided the teams through continuous improvement. Served the teams and ensured I am always aware of my own EQ strengths.
Conduct organization-wide Agile training.
Continuous Improvement