Isabelle Lehodey , READING, United Kingdom

There is a wealth of training and frameworks, influencers and large corporation dedicated to the topic of agile, how to make sense of it?

I help teams, leaders, organisations to emerge "what agile means" in their own context and culture, whether or not they have embarked on an agile journey, face challenges or need help on how to scale.

My approach is to make the case for agile by showing results and build up local agile muscle through knowledge transfer, sharing tips, building tool kits and communities that will support continuous growth and improvement.

I coach core functions and teams to acknowledge and reflect on their ways of working, and collaborate towards achieving customer centric outcomes, using transparency and feedback loops to find issues early, validate progress towards outcomes and make data driven decisions.

My passion and personal talent is to release individuals and teams’ potential and accompany organisations through the change curve.

I offer combined agile transformation and IT project management skills acquired over 20 years embedded with engineering teams.
• Scrum master – CSM (Scrum, Kanban, SFE, SAFe, DA, Lean)
• Agile coach
• Application product owner (waterfall)
• SAFe 5.0 release train engineer (RTE)
• Program Manager – PMI-ACP

Expert level with Jira, Confluence, Jira align, Azure boards (TFS), Rally, MS Project, Visio, Power BI

Immediately available to:
• Increase agility for new or mature cross functional teams and foster continuous improvement
• Create and maintain Portfolio, Program and Team backlogs that focus on the highest value
• Coach agile practices to change agents so they take ownership of disseminating lean principles, feedback and empowerment improve morale, performance, quality and cost.
• Scale agile practices across multiple teams and integrate core functions or new products
• Introduce and mature Dev/Ops practices through integration with all relevant functions

SKILLS
 Agile program management | Governance | Outcome focused | Action biased
 Influence without authority: model active listening, build compromise, conflict and dependencies’ resolution, invested in individual and teams’ success with a talent for nudging others towards meaningful growth.
 Agile coach: agile practitioner, on the job team trainer, mentor across functions and levels
 Strong stakeholder management experience, including adaptive, visual, transparent communication methods. Proactively remove blockers to ensure continuous delivery of value. Identify, highlight, and mitigate risks to commitments. Mitigate dependencies and risks
 Product management: partner closely with product management to align and maintain Plan, Do, Check, Adjust at team, program and portfolio level. Enrich practices to elaborate and refine backlogs using tools of trade such as design thinking methods, story mapping and just enough details stories for teams to own solutions.
 Disseminate agile mindset – Create wide awareness of House of lean principles and make it easy for all to translate them into ways of working that continuously improve the flow. Let teams discover empowerment behaviours and increase their impact on outcomes and the community at large.
 Foster personal growth – Inspire engineers, designers, experts to invest in growing their skills in depth or breadth as part of the continuous delivery process to increase job satisfaction and self-organisation.