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Quantzi Consulting Services (PTY) LTD Senior Enterprise Agile Coach / Digital Agile Transformation specialist / SPC / Senior PM
Sep. 2022South AfricaDigital Sales Transformation
DVTSenior Program Manager | Senior Agile Coach | SAFE 6.0 SPC and Trainer | Senior Scrum Master| RTE
Sep. 2021South Africa
Santam InsuranceSenior Program Manager | Senior Agile Coach | Senior Scrum Master
Sep. 2021South Africa
Liberty Group South AfricaSenior Scrum master and Senior Agile Coach
Feb. 2020 - Oct. 2021South AfricaGuide and coach the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers
Responsible for 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.
Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to feature teams
Facilitates and supports all ceremonies: Sprint Planning
Daily Stand-up
Backlog Refinement
Sprint Retrospective
Communicate effectively with product owner, product manager and stakeholders
Work with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making Assisting and 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
Quantzi Consulting Services (PTY) LTD Co-Founder
Aug. 2019South AfricaProject Management, SAFe Training and transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Banking, Agile Training, Scrum Training, Agile Transformation, ART Launches
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
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-Standup, 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
MomentumSenior Scrum master and Coach
Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2018South AfricaAgile Coaching
Coached the Squad Leads, and teams to improve their Agile practices and mindset
Employed teaching, mentoring, and professional coaching techniques as appropriate for the circumstances and people to increase the Agile knowledge, mindset and execution of Agile values and principles.
Shared innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility. COP
Coaching the teams on user story writing Utilised methods from multiple frameworks and developmental models to provide a customized coaching approach to teams.
I Lead by example in displaying Agile behaviours.
Senior Scrum Master (3 Feature Teams)
Guided and coached the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to Scrum teams
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Backlog Refinement
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Communicated effectively, both internally and externally
Worked with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making
Ensured internal stakeholders had a voice in the scrum process
Resolved team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team
Standard Bank GroupSenior Agile Coach / Senior Scrum Master (4 Feature Teams)
Mar. 2014 - Dec. 2016South AfricaCoached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices
Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance
Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent
Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development
Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement
Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities
Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes.
Senior Scrum Master (4 Feature Teams)
Guided and coached the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers
Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to Scrum teams
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Backlog Refinement
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Worked with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making
Ensured internal stakeholders had a voice in the scrum process
Resolved team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team
BettergroupSenior Project Manager | Senior Scrum Master and Senior Agile Coach
Feb. 2013 - Jun. 2014Coached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices.
Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance.
Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent.
Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development. Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement.
Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities.
Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional (business, development, and operations) teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes.
Managed In-house software development projects
Inter-Active TechnologiesSenior Agile Coach / Senior Project Manager
Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2013Coached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices.
Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance.
Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent.
Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development. Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement.
Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities.
Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional (business, development, and operations) teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes.
Managed contact centre implementation projects from inception through to completion.
Managed budgets
Managed Risks
Managed Customer relationships
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