Andrey

He facilitated the transition of the applications (20+ people) from Waterfall to Agile as an Interim Agile Coach while acting as the Scrum Master of two on-site teams. He brought in Agile best practices such as Limited Work in Progress, Time-Boxing, Continuous Integration, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment, and role training, resulting in more than 60% realized velocity improvement.

• Built a relationship with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to facilitate the team’s interaction with them. He coached the Product Owner in creating and maintaining the Product Backlog. He work closely with the Product Owner to ensure requirements alignment with Sprint, Release, and Product Goals.
• Facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. He facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Sprint and Release Planning, Demos, and other Scrum-related ceremonies/meetings.
• Developed and implemented a Scrum framework based on Agile principles and Kanban. He mentors and coaches the Scrum development team to improve delivery flow continuously, communication, and predictability of delivery (say/do ratio) via Retrospectives and planning across a 2-week Sprint cycle.
• Help the team solve problems rather than provide solutions. He supports the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and lead by example. Remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Work with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery. He continuously learns new Agile/Scrum techniques and shares findings with the team.
• Introduced Agile techniques through weekly workshops. He coaches off-shore teams in self-organization, cross-functionality, and best practices such as XP and Scrum.

Coached numerous teams with various experience and Agile maturity levels. Empowered teams by guiding and educating them on how to sort through cross-team dependencies, inter-team coordination, and department/program level roadmap discussions with business and internal IT stakeholders.

• Leveraged Scrum ceremonies and metrics to increase visibility/transparency at the program level and encouraged discussion among internal resources to resolve challenges in a self-organizing fashion.
• Facilitated workshops and discussions to generate new ideas about development among Scrum Masters via the Scrum Master Forum.
• Facilitated other Agile practices such as XP and Kanban to effectively use Pair Programming, TDD, and CI and limit WIP.
• Observed effectiveness with a focus on Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Development Teams to ensure the Agile Principles and Manifestoes are respected and followed.
• Observed Scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to Scrum Masters, team leaders, and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies.
• Helped teams understand various Agile Metrics, Effective use of Burn-up and Burn-Down Chart, Cumulative flow, and other Agile Metrics that help team / PO improve every Sprint / Release.
• Coached and mentored Scrum Masters, Teams, and POs on how to focus on Sprint Goals and effectively deliver high value every sprint by meeting the commitments, true Definition of Done, and with zero defects.

Brought in Agile best practices such as continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, Jira tracking, product visioning, self-management, empowerment, and role training. Mentored teams, leading them to be more self-directed with solid accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution, and transparency.

• Kept the team focused on the sprint priorities, business values, and protecting a team from over-committing. Built team’s agile knowledge and empowered the team to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.
• Responsible for removing impediments, as these projects rely on multiple vendors’ data, requiring constant, effective communication to unblock the team and make sure the team remains on the task at hand.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Retrospective meetings.
• Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate, and defects and made sure the stakeholders knew what was going on.
• During the Sprint review sessions, he worked with the Product Owner to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the sprint.
• Coached teams to be more high-performing Scrum teams while ensuring continuous quality and showing the value of integrating customer feedback into the final product.

Worked with multiple Agile teams to foster collaboration and continuous improvement culture.

• Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.
• Championed Agile concepts and methodologies outside the software development teams, leading to Agile project management practices in new areas such as IT infrastructure planning and management.
• Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process, leading to increased customer satisfaction and a decrease in time-to-delivery.
• Led a team with no dedicated QA resources to incorporate Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Delivery practices, leading to increased quality of delivered products and decreased production defects.
• Oversaw the entire SDLC, from ideation to discovery, execution, and deployment.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinements, Sprint Planning, and Retrospectives.

Servant leader of the cross-functional development team working to deliver world-class managed computing and cloud solutions.

• Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinements, Retrospectives, Demos, and daily work.
• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often and removed barriers and blockers for the team.
• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and refinement.
• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
• Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.
• Responsible for coordinating the bi-monthly release of the software, including planning and quality assurance.
• Provided recommendations to the Agile Center of Excellence on improving Agile processes and practices.