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Product Management and Business Analyst consultant
Phillip Whiteley
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Leeds, United Kingdom
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Profile / Summary:
An experienced and industry adaptable Product Management leader, expert in providing the clarity and focus
required to lead business and development teams to deliver on product vision and strategy. Key strengths include:
identifying and managing stakeholders at all levels, building trust and a common understanding of objectives and
roadmap; facilitating requirements elicitation workshops with confidence to identify true product/system needs and
communicate business drivers; effectively negotiating backlog items based on market/user priority to ensure delivery
of minimum viable product (MVP) with minimal scope creep; and extensive hands on experience of delivering large,
complex, enterprise level solutions in challenging and evolving environments.
Career Highlights:
* Shop Direct wanted to expand upon their financial products range by offering fixed term loans and revolving credit
facilities via the build of a bespoke end-to-end SaaS based 'Credit as a Platform' solution. As the Product
Delivery Manager - Technology, I identified the needed platform capabilities and components to deliver the
market offerings. I worked with CEO and multiple workstreams to align the programme to work in a 'customer
first' approach, whilst ensuring the technical roadmap aligned with the strategic objectives. Secured a technical
build budget of c.£22m.
* Asda Walmart initiated replacement of its online grocery product information management system (c.50,000
product listings) but the project was failing. Engaged as Product Manager to re-establish direction and deliver
migration. Created product backlog and confluence documentation; removed development blockers; analysed,
documented and refined current operating/system processes; provided support for product release; and resolved
issues. The MVP was released with minimal delay and trust restored with business/development teams.
* Flashtalking initiated a rewrite of Creative Manager product. As Product Owner created clear vision and gained
agreement for Agile, iterative delivery. Worked with users/stakeholders to identify MVP; defined themes, epic and
story backlog; led Scrum team to develop solution; carried out user testing/analysis; and developed fit for purpose
product that could be continuously released. Launched product to multiple international locations and embedded
project management best practice and Agile methods into product/development teams.
* http://*****.** wanted to link their individual products to form one Enterprise Resource Planning SaaS
application. As Product Manager, developed the linking middleware. Defined product vision; created
documentation based on user needs, features and benefits to be realised; worked with CTO and chief technical
architect to shortlist and select technical solution; identified and prioritised initial product integration set; and
created story backlog of stories for development team. Delivered MVP which was building block for multiple
product integrations
An experienced and industry adaptable Product Management leader, expert in providing the clarity and focus
required to lead business and development teams to deliver on product vision and strategy. Key strengths include:
identifying and managing stakeholders at all levels, building trust and a common understanding of objectives and
roadmap; facilitating requirements elicitation workshops with confidence to identify true product/system needs and
communicate business drivers; effectively negotiating backlog items based on market/user priority to ensure delivery
of minimum viable product (MVP) with minimal scope creep; and extensive hands on experience of delivering large,
complex, enterprise level solutions in challenging and evolving environments.
Career Highlights:
* Shop Direct wanted to expand upon their financial products range by offering fixed term loans and revolving credit
facilities via the build of a bespoke end-to-end SaaS based 'Credit as a Platform' solution. As the Product
Delivery Manager - Technology, I identified the needed platform capabilities and components to deliver the
market offerings. I worked with CEO and multiple workstreams to align the programme to work in a 'customer
first' approach, whilst ensuring the technical roadmap aligned with the strategic objectives. Secured a technical
build budget of c.£22m.
* Asda Walmart initiated replacement of its online grocery product information management system (c.50,000
product listings) but the project was failing. Engaged as Product Manager to re-establish direction and deliver
migration. Created product backlog and confluence documentation; removed development blockers; analysed,
documented and refined current operating/system processes; provided support for product release; and resolved
issues. The MVP was released with minimal delay and trust restored with business/development teams.
* Flashtalking initiated a rewrite of Creative Manager product. As Product Owner created clear vision and gained
agreement for Agile, iterative delivery. Worked with users/stakeholders to identify MVP; defined themes, epic and
story backlog; led Scrum team to develop solution; carried out user testing/analysis; and developed fit for purpose
product that could be continuously released. Launched product to multiple international locations and embedded
project management best practice and Agile methods into product/development teams.
* http://*****.** wanted to link their individual products to form one Enterprise Resource Planning SaaS
application. As Product Manager, developed the linking middleware. Defined product vision; created
documentation based on user needs, features and benefits to be realised; worked with CTO and chief technical
architect to shortlist and select technical solution; identified and prioritised initial product integration set; and
created story backlog of stories for development team. Delivered MVP which was building block for multiple
product integrations
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2019 - ?
job
Product Management Leader - Pre-engagement Team
Equal Experts.
Equal Experts is a network of talented, experienced software consultants, specialising in agile delivery. I am currently engaged to deliver Product Management and leadership consultancy for their existing clients, and to advise prospective clients on best practice
product management delivery techniques. This involves facilitating onsite workshops to identify their business, product, or specific
initiative objectives and advising them on a suitable product management approach.
product management delivery techniques. This involves facilitating onsite workshops to identify their business, product, or specific
initiative objectives and advising them on a suitable product management approach.
Product Management, Agile, Leadership, Management, Network, Workshops, Software
2018 - 2019
job
Product Delivery Manager - Technology
Shop Direct Ltd.
A sixteen-week engagement commissioned to identify and define the strategic, regulatory and technical needs to deliver a suite of
'challenger' financial products via the build of a bespoke web-based credit facilitation platform, 'Credit as a Platform'. As the product
delivery manager for the technology stream, I was responsible and accountable for aligning the business and customer needs to the identified technical costs and delivery roadmap.
* Work directly with the Shop Direct, Very and Littlewoods CEO of Finance and Technology to define the product vision and unique
selling points/customer features for each of the seven credit offerings.
* Direct and create the needed value proposition statements and product canvases which were used to align each programme
stream to the objectives of the engagement.
* Decompose each product vision to identify the required system and operational capabilities, and the logical technical
components needed to deliver such capabilities.
* Prioritise the identified capabilities to create a lean roadmap that enabled the delivery of customer needs.
* Work with KPMG and the creative agency, Think, to ensure that all regulatory requirements and the go-to-market strategy were
considered and factored into the delivery roadmap.
Key Achievements:
* Secured the approval of a circa £22m technical build budget to be released over a two year period.
* Coached Shop Direct Product Managers and Owners on industry best practice product management principles and techniques.
* Developed a product delivery roadmap that would iteratively add value to their customers whilst realising a return on investment
as soon as possible based upon the business case needs.
* Aligned multiple workstreams to the product proposition, whilst ensuring that the end deliverable clearly showed the approach
taken that led to the programme findings.
'challenger' financial products via the build of a bespoke web-based credit facilitation platform, 'Credit as a Platform'. As the product
delivery manager for the technology stream, I was responsible and accountable for aligning the business and customer needs to the identified technical costs and delivery roadmap.
* Work directly with the Shop Direct, Very and Littlewoods CEO of Finance and Technology to define the product vision and unique
selling points/customer features for each of the seven credit offerings.
* Direct and create the needed value proposition statements and product canvases which were used to align each programme
stream to the objectives of the engagement.
* Decompose each product vision to identify the required system and operational capabilities, and the logical technical
components needed to deliver such capabilities.
* Prioritise the identified capabilities to create a lean roadmap that enabled the delivery of customer needs.
* Work with KPMG and the creative agency, Think, to ensure that all regulatory requirements and the go-to-market strategy were
considered and factored into the delivery roadmap.
Key Achievements:
* Secured the approval of a circa £22m technical build budget to be released over a two year period.
* Coached Shop Direct Product Managers and Owners on industry best practice product management principles and techniques.
* Developed a product delivery roadmap that would iteratively add value to their customers whilst realising a return on investment
as soon as possible based upon the business case needs.
* Aligned multiple workstreams to the product proposition, whilst ensuring that the end deliverable clearly showed the approach
taken that led to the programme findings.
Product Management, Budget, Lean, Management, Finance, Business Case, Technology, Ceo, Web, Regulatory, Go, LED, Manager
2017 - 2018
job
Programme Product Manager and API Team Delivery Lead
Hermes Parcelnet Ltd.
Dates: October 2017 to November 2018
Hermes is the UK's leading consumer logistics specialist, delivering over 900,000 parcels daily. Initially engaged as the Delivery
Lead for the API stream of the Hermes multi-million pound 'Digital Futures' program initiated to develop their new eCommerce user
experiences, my competency and knowledge of product ownership and management resulted in a request to undertake additional
responsibilities as a program level product delivery lead.
* Facilitate workshops with multiple product owners and 3rd parties to create product roadmaps to deliver the program vision and key business/user benefits.
* Decompose requested features into themes and epics whilst identifying the development teams needed to deliver the required
user stories.
* Alignment of multiple delivery teams to ensure roadmap delivery commitments are met.
* Attend user feedback sessions to gain product insights and then feedback findings into product roadmap refinement workshops.
* Presentation of product deliverables and roadmaps to numerous board members, including the CEO, CIO, CTO and Director of Programme Management, and other key business stakeholders.
Key Achievements:
• Resolution of multiple team/3rd party alignment and collaboration issues resulting in a common understanding of product
deliverables and clearer ways of working as a unified, singular delivery team.
• Decomposition of requested product features into a concise and prioritised roadmap based on both user and business needs.
• Successful launch of the new Hermes consumer parcel tracking website and new market leading features.
• Introduction of an iterative, feature-based approach to product planning and release.
• A key contributor to a delivery team which won Computing Digital Team of the Year 2018.
Hermes is the UK's leading consumer logistics specialist, delivering over 900,000 parcels daily. Initially engaged as the Delivery
Lead for the API stream of the Hermes multi-million pound 'Digital Futures' program initiated to develop their new eCommerce user
experiences, my competency and knowledge of product ownership and management resulted in a request to undertake additional
responsibilities as a program level product delivery lead.
* Facilitate workshops with multiple product owners and 3rd parties to create product roadmaps to deliver the program vision and key business/user benefits.
* Decompose requested features into themes and epics whilst identifying the development teams needed to deliver the required
user stories.
* Alignment of multiple delivery teams to ensure roadmap delivery commitments are met.
* Attend user feedback sessions to gain product insights and then feedback findings into product roadmap refinement workshops.
* Presentation of product deliverables and roadmaps to numerous board members, including the CEO, CIO, CTO and Director of Programme Management, and other key business stakeholders.
Key Achievements:
• Resolution of multiple team/3rd party alignment and collaboration issues resulting in a common understanding of product
deliverables and clearer ways of working as a unified, singular delivery team.
• Decomposition of requested product features into a concise and prioritised roadmap based on both user and business needs.
• Successful launch of the new Hermes consumer parcel tracking website and new market leading features.
• Introduction of an iterative, feature-based approach to product planning and release.
• A key contributor to a delivery team which won Computing Digital Team of the Year 2018.
API, Ecommerce, Product Manager, User stories, Management, Website, Workshops, Cto, Ceo, Development, CIO, Feature, Manager
2017 - 2017
job
Senior Product Manager
Asda Digital Technology (Walmart Labs).
Walmart Labs provide creative ecommerce solutions that push the boundaries of retail commerce innovation.
* Engaged as principal Product Manager for the migration of Asda's online grocery legacy product information management system
(c.50,000 product listings for a grocery platform that receives c.300,000 orders week day) to Oracle Business Control Centre.
* Identify the initiatives main themes and distil into required epics for business prioritisation and development team review working
within an Agile Scrum environment.
* Work with the business to identify and document the objectives and key results which should be achieved on completion of the delivery of the minimum viable product (MVP).
* Lead an international team of product owners to create backlogs for their development teams, ensuring that each story relates
back to the overall vision and objectives of the migration.
* Collaborate with each product owner and Scrum Master to remove development blockers.
Key Achievements:
• Worked with business and product users to identify product feature needs and align to initiative vision and objectives.
• Negotiated epic and story priority to allow for suitable MVP to be agreed.
• Resolved issues with roadmap slippage, missed needs and initiative priority clashes.
• Worked with other product managers and Scrum teams to groom and point estimate product backlog features and associated
stories.
• Established self as subject knowledge expert during story elaboration and sprint reviews
• Championed and promoted Agile best practice leading to reintroduction of sprint reviews which have played pivotal role in the success of the initiative.
• Developed responsive roadmap using JIRA and Confluence to deliver iteratively whilst retaining flexibility to accommodate user
feedback and issue resolution.
* Engaged as principal Product Manager for the migration of Asda's online grocery legacy product information management system
(c.50,000 product listings for a grocery platform that receives c.300,000 orders week day) to Oracle Business Control Centre.
* Identify the initiatives main themes and distil into required epics for business prioritisation and development team review working
within an Agile Scrum environment.
* Work with the business to identify and document the objectives and key results which should be achieved on completion of the delivery of the minimum viable product (MVP).
* Lead an international team of product owners to create backlogs for their development teams, ensuring that each story relates
back to the overall vision and objectives of the migration.
* Collaborate with each product owner and Scrum Master to remove development blockers.
Key Achievements:
• Worked with business and product users to identify product feature needs and align to initiative vision and objectives.
• Negotiated epic and story priority to allow for suitable MVP to be agreed.
• Resolved issues with roadmap slippage, missed needs and initiative priority clashes.
• Worked with other product managers and Scrum teams to groom and point estimate product backlog features and associated
stories.
• Established self as subject knowledge expert during story elaboration and sprint reviews
• Championed and promoted Agile best practice leading to reintroduction of sprint reviews which have played pivotal role in the success of the initiative.
• Developed responsive roadmap using JIRA and Confluence to deliver iteratively whilst retaining flexibility to accommodate user
feedback and issue resolution.
Product Manager, Manager, Online, Responsive, Feature, International, Development, Information Management, Confluence, Management, Scrum, Product owner, C, Agile, Retail, Oracle, Jira, Scrum master, Innovation, Ecommerce
2015 - 2016
job
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Flashtalking, Leeds.
Flashtalking provide a best in class first party ad-serving platform that delivers one billion impressions per day.
* Joined Flashtalking with responsibility for Creative Manager and AdBuilder; collaborated with users, product stakeholders and analytics to support prioritisation of future developments.
* Created/maintained backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using behaviour-driven development techniques ensuring
each story contributed to the product value proposition.
* Filtered and prioritised new requests from commercial teams against market or user needs.
* Defined and presented product visions, roadmaps and release plans to delivery teams, senior executives and user
communities ensuring product direction was understood and agreed.
* Monitored team velocity and participated in all Scrum ceremonies to assist in identification of areas of improvement within
development process.
* Coordinated efforts of multiple product Scrum teams to ensure mitigation of dependencies.
Key Achievements:
* Played pivotal role in the launch of Creative Manager to multiple international locations.
* Created and organised the backlog of stories, along with acceptance criteria, estimation and prioritisation that allowed for the delivery of the agreed product re-write.
* Championed importance of user involvement in story creation and established product advocate community to assist in identification and prioritisation of key needs.
* Identified key stakeholders for vision, product roadmap, epic and story creation for the re-write of the Flashtalking Creative
Manager product.
* Shared expertise and knowledge, and embedded Agile methods and techniques into the product and development teams to enable continuous improvement.
* Joined Flashtalking with responsibility for Creative Manager and AdBuilder; collaborated with users, product stakeholders and analytics to support prioritisation of future developments.
* Created/maintained backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using behaviour-driven development techniques ensuring
each story contributed to the product value proposition.
* Filtered and prioritised new requests from commercial teams against market or user needs.
* Defined and presented product visions, roadmaps and release plans to delivery teams, senior executives and user
communities ensuring product direction was understood and agreed.
* Monitored team velocity and participated in all Scrum ceremonies to assist in identification of areas of improvement within
development process.
* Coordinated efforts of multiple product Scrum teams to ensure mitigation of dependencies.
Key Achievements:
* Played pivotal role in the launch of Creative Manager to multiple international locations.
* Created and organised the backlog of stories, along with acceptance criteria, estimation and prioritisation that allowed for the delivery of the agreed product re-write.
* Championed importance of user involvement in story creation and established product advocate community to assist in identification and prioritisation of key needs.
* Identified key stakeholders for vision, product roadmap, epic and story creation for the re-write of the Flashtalking Creative
Manager product.
* Shared expertise and knowledge, and embedded Agile methods and techniques into the product and development teams to enable continuous improvement.
Scrum, Agile, Product owner, Continuous improvement, User stories, Analytics, Embedded, Support, Development, Community, International, Direction, Manager
2012 - 2015
job
Product Manager / Business Analyst
FinancialForce.com, Harrogate.
Product Manager, Analyst, Manager
2009 - 2012
job
New Product Innovation Manager / Group Senior Business Analyst
CPP Group Plc.
CPP provide life assistance services and products in the UK and overseas.
Key Achievements:
* Enhanced new mobile data protection products by innovative linking of disparate features.
* Contributed to improvement of CPP standards/processes relating to NPD.
* Project managed development/launch of Personal Identity Protection within Indian market.
* Project managed and operated as lead BA for launch of paperless DD+ payment in the ROI.
* Lead BA for a project to redesign international payment collection and merchant acquirer system; a system
responsible for collecting over £51m revenue in 2011.
* Lead BA within CPP workstream of migration of c.2m standard and 125k high net worth RBS/NatWest customers
from legacy package accounts to Select Silver and Black accounts.
Key Achievements:
* Enhanced new mobile data protection products by innovative linking of disparate features.
* Contributed to improvement of CPP standards/processes relating to NPD.
* Project managed development/launch of Personal Identity Protection within Indian market.
* Project managed and operated as lead BA for launch of paperless DD+ payment in the ROI.
* Lead BA for a project to redesign international payment collection and merchant acquirer system; a system
responsible for collecting over £51m revenue in 2011.
* Lead BA within CPP workstream of migration of c.2m standard and 125k high net worth RBS/NatWest customers
from legacy package accounts to Select Silver and Black accounts.
Innovation, C, ROI, Net, Analyst, Development, Npd, International, Redesign, Cpp, Processes, Manager
2007 - 2009
job
Project Manager / Business Analyst
Skipton Financial Services, Skipton.
Project Manager, Analyst, Manager
2006 - 2007
temp
Project Officer Mobile Rollout
Provident Financial Bradford.
(Contract)
2003 - 2006
freelance
Implementation Consultant
RTIX, Harrogate.
Implementation
My education
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2011
n/a
Unspecified, Business
Unspecified, Business
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2003
Sheffield Hallam University
BSc, Computing
BSc, Computing
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