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Agile Coach and Scrum Master with 7+ years experience
Phil Borrell
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Berlin, Germany
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Lean Delivery, Agile Coach and Scrum Master with a wealth of hands-on experience transitioning Engineering teams, management and businesses to a more productive, open and collaborative way of working. Creating visibility within teams of engineers, product owners, and externally to upper management and customers. Creating a culture of openness, honesty and integrity, encouraging discussion and knowledge sharing across teams and departments. Empowering teams to experiment with how they work to facilitate improvements. Creating bespoke metrics for reporting, but also for guiding improvement across teams.
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United Kingdom
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English
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My experience
2019 - ?
freelance
Scrum Master / Agile Coach (Freelance)
Xceptor.
Scrum Master to 4 Implementation teams who have begun their agile journey. Agile Coach to Project managers and COO.
Main responsibilities are to support, guide, and mentor 4 Implementation teams of consultants across 4 time zones; London, New York, South Africa, and Singapore, and POs into an agile way of working. Supporting the PMs to liaise with clients to drive change, ensuring all work is scoped and signed off before work is started on. Working with POs to define backlogs for the teams, to ensure correct hierarchical structure within Azure DevOps is being utilised to allow for visibility and easy of client change needs. Creating a culture within the teams that ensures continuous knowledge sharing, high quality, with honesty and integrity. To facilitate all scrum ceremonies and to support company with hiring POs and Scrum Masters to permanent roles.
Main responsibilities are to support, guide, and mentor 4 Implementation teams of consultants across 4 time zones; London, New York, South Africa, and Singapore, and POs into an agile way of working. Supporting the PMs to liaise with clients to drive change, ensuring all work is scoped and signed off before work is started on. Working with POs to define backlogs for the teams, to ensure correct hierarchical structure within Azure DevOps is being utilised to allow for visibility and easy of client change needs. Creating a culture within the teams that ensures continuous knowledge sharing, high quality, with honesty and integrity. To facilitate all scrum ceremonies and to support company with hiring POs and Scrum Masters to permanent roles.
Scrum, Azure, Scrum master, DevOps, Agile, Agile coach, Mentor, Support, Pos, Implementation, Coach, Guide
2018 - 2019
freelance
Scrum Master (Freelance)
Origami Energy.
Redefined and updated Agile strategy for engineering department, whilst supporting the CTO to drive change within Product and Engineering and the wider business into an Agile mindset. Drove change within Product team, and Agile Delivery Lead. Set up new Jira and Confluence instance for all the business. Mentored a change mindset that empowered teams to take ownership of their development cycle. Encouraging experimentation and collaboration as an underpinning to a healthy working environment and culture.
Jira, Agile, Agile coach, Engineering, Cto, Confluence, Development, Coach, UP
2018 - 2018
freelance
Agile Coach (Freelance)
Racing Post.
Analyse Agile maturity of a Web team and two Native Apps teams. Create an Agile maturity development plan for the team. Instil the foundations of Scrum into the teams, and mentor the BAs into becoming new Delivery Leads. Create new Jira projects and Workflows, as well as the foundations for department uptake of Confluence. Work closely with the Programme Manager to detail planning process for the present time, at team and high level. Support the design, build and uptake of department wide governance processes.
Design, Scrum, Jira, Agile, Agile coach, Mentor, Apps, Support, Confluence, Development, Coach, Detail, Web, Native, Manager, Processes
2015 - 2018
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Agile Lean Delivery Coach
Awin.
Responsible for the delivery of up to 3 engineering teams and supporting the day to day running of a Production, and DevOps teams. Supporting the teams on their Agile journeys and encouraging a Lean way of thinking. Working closely with senior management to create strategic changes in the Product and Development department as it transitions from a Product Oriented to Service Oriented way of working. Facilitating Director level knowledge sharing and empowering engineers to speak to Directors regarding issues in the code base that require stability changes and supporting strategic scalability planning and improvement. Facilitating post-mortems after critical errors have occurred and actively encouraging and supporting an open, honest and learning culture over a blame culture. Building bespoke metrics for Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban teams.
Scrum Master (Freelance)
Scrum Master (Freelance)
Scrum, Scrum master, DevOps, Agile, Lean, Management, Kanban, Service, Engineering, It, Development, Coach, Scalability, Production, UP
2014 - 2015
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Contract Scrum Master
Comic Relief.
Supporting CTO to instil Scrum into engineering teams struggling with the transition across to an Agile way of working. Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including supporting Product Owners with backlog creation, maintenance and stakeholder management of expectations for launch date.
Scrum, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Management, Engineering, Cto
2014 - 2014
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Scrum Master
Avantia Insurance Ltd.
Supported a large engineering team of eight developers, three testers, and an architect to refine their Scrum skills. Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies and introduced Scrum metrics to the team. Worked closely with CEO and CTO to ensure deadlines were met, and change requirements were being prioritised both within the Scrum Team and the wider business to ensure deliverables.
Scrum, Scrum master, Engineering, Cto, Ceo
2011 - 2012
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Scrum Master
Tesco.
Scrum Master to several development teams, working on internal intranet changes and updating supplier portal
Scrum, Scrum master, Development, Portal
My education
University of Hertfordshire
Masters, Computer Science
Masters, Computer Science
Bangor University
Bachelors, Psychology
Bachelors, Psychology
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