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Agile Coach helping people/enterprise to develop and excel in their agile journey
Guy Augusto Rodrigues
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Sidcup, United Kingdom
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Innovative, well-versed, result orientated Agile coach and Scrum Master with over 10 years of experience and a passion for building, coaching, training, supporting and leading various teams through adoption, implementation and maintenance of Agile principles, Lean processes and Scrum practices. I do help clients in their journey to strive towards agility and harness continuous improvement and facilitate sustainability with great quality. I have delivered high-value transformation projects and brought demonstrated sustainable and measurable benefits in major companies across a variety of sectors (Oil and Gas, IT, Supply chains, retail and Finance) in matrixed organizations and across different geographies.
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Spanish
Good
French
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Available
My experience
2018 - 2020
job
Agile Coach / Scrum Master
BP.
I am working as an Agile coach for several teams across BP's Upstream, Finance Department and Digital Security segments. This role has involved supporting LT (leadership team) and team's members to address many of the mindset challenges that naturally present themselves during such transformations. By driving mindset shifts from both a team and leadership perspective, I have enjoyed being able to watch small increments of change take place from both the top downwards, as well as from the ground upwards in the organisation. Helping BP to streamline their processes, increase their flexibility and exploring the different facets of Agility by empowering people to develop, inspect and adapt in their journey to changing their mindset as the company evolves
Upstream and Digital Security are some of the most important segments of BP business and I am supporting some of the largest agility transformation project in the organisation. I am responsible for delivering the following:
• Leadership coaching
• Collaborative problem solving
• Unluck team decision-making and transparency between them, the organisation, and customers
• Organise and facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Help the product owners to be customer-centric and focused on delivering value
• Team coaching on becoming self-organised (onsite and distributed)
• Explore and define use case models plus strong Agile Delivery background with extensive Agile frameworks knowledge (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and experience
• Work with the Product team to prepare the Scrum backlog and grooming of the backlog
• Working with PO to define proper user stories and maintain their value during sprint
• Maintain product delivery catalogues
• Ability to apply framework best practices to organisational challenges
• Community of practice events
• Experience providing training and workshops on specific methodologies
• Uniting and empowering teams
• Improving team maturity by creating a healthy culture of continuous learning, trust, courage, focus and commitment
• Improving communication
• Developing people with the ability to influence behaviour change
• Focusing teams on shared goals
• New team set up
• Agility training sessions and workshops on Scrum or Kanban frameworks
• Implementing new frameworks
• Sharing knowledge via meet ups events and participate in community of Agile practice and excellent understanding of Azure DevOps, MS Teams, Planner etc.
• Strong stakeholder alignment and Management
Upstream and Digital Security are some of the most important segments of BP business and I am supporting some of the largest agility transformation project in the organisation. I am responsible for delivering the following:
• Leadership coaching
• Collaborative problem solving
• Unluck team decision-making and transparency between them, the organisation, and customers
• Organise and facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Help the product owners to be customer-centric and focused on delivering value
• Team coaching on becoming self-organised (onsite and distributed)
• Explore and define use case models plus strong Agile Delivery background with extensive Agile frameworks knowledge (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and experience
• Work with the Product team to prepare the Scrum backlog and grooming of the backlog
• Working with PO to define proper user stories and maintain their value during sprint
• Maintain product delivery catalogues
• Ability to apply framework best practices to organisational challenges
• Community of practice events
• Experience providing training and workshops on specific methodologies
• Uniting and empowering teams
• Improving team maturity by creating a healthy culture of continuous learning, trust, courage, focus and commitment
• Improving communication
• Developing people with the ability to influence behaviour change
• Focusing teams on shared goals
• New team set up
• Agility training sessions and workshops on Scrum or Kanban frameworks
• Implementing new frameworks
• Sharing knowledge via meet ups events and participate in community of Agile practice and excellent understanding of Azure DevOps, MS Teams, Planner etc.
• Strong stakeholder alignment and Management
Finance, UP, Processes, Framework, Organization, Azure DevOps, Coach, Community, Transformation, Workshops, Team coaching, Security, Kanban, Coaching, Management, User stories, SoMe, Leadership, Agile coach, Agile, Training, DevOps, Azure, Scrum master, Scrum
2018 - 2018
job
Agile Coach (Wealth Management)
Flagstone Investment Management.
Responsible for redefining, redesigning the current Digital Wealth Management Platform; Investigating and implementing Blockchain technology in the company while reinforcing the adherence to Scrum and Agile principles and values in the company. Managed various infrastructure projects for the business, and dedicated functions. Successfully delivering technology change projects required in these areas and working in partnership with Barclays, Santander, and Amro Bank.
• Coach and guide the teams (Devs & Non-Devs) on the principles and values of Agile, Scrum & Kanban techniques
• Facilitate effective communication with offshore and onshore teams and enable high productivity of multi located teams
• Effective communicating of the vision, goals, and Product backlog items to the Teams
• Helping the scrum team to create clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Managed several projects in parallel with great outcomes & good stakeholders management skills
• Coaching the team in self-organisation and cross-functionality
• Teaching and Leading the Team to create high-value products
• Chasing, tracking project progress; incredibly good analytical skills and good experience of gathering detailed information and consolidating them for project status
• Good management of issues/risks & escalating them to Product Owner or Stakeholders
• Facilitate all the Scrum's ceremonies: Daily stand-up, Retrospective, Sprint review, Sprint planning etc
• Introduced visibility, transparency to the team & the company by providing a Scrum board and Metrics
• Coached and helped the Product Owner in writing good User Stories
• Exceptionally good understanding of development best practice, working to remove impediments and protecting the team from outside distraction and knowledge of long-term product planning in an empirical environment
• Helping the team in developing effective Product Backlog Management.
• Facilitated the establishment of a team protocols to resolve any team's conflicts.
• Coach the team on how to develop ownership of the sprints and delivering MVP and value to the company & customers by offering good estimation to the Product Owner.
• Encouraged the team to understanding the importance of Test-driven development (TDD) & BDD
• Managed onboarding of outsourced team members and organise accessibility to all required Dev environment while keeping the sprints goals alive
• Good knowledge of building service-oriented architectures and micro-services-based project
• Effective communication skills and experienced managing stakeholders across up to C-level (with teams and program metrics) and pragmatics when it comes to dealing with conflict.
• Coach and guide the teams (Devs & Non-Devs) on the principles and values of Agile, Scrum & Kanban techniques
• Facilitate effective communication with offshore and onshore teams and enable high productivity of multi located teams
• Effective communicating of the vision, goals, and Product backlog items to the Teams
• Helping the scrum team to create clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Managed several projects in parallel with great outcomes & good stakeholders management skills
• Coaching the team in self-organisation and cross-functionality
• Teaching and Leading the Team to create high-value products
• Chasing, tracking project progress; incredibly good analytical skills and good experience of gathering detailed information and consolidating them for project status
• Good management of issues/risks & escalating them to Product Owner or Stakeholders
• Facilitate all the Scrum's ceremonies: Daily stand-up, Retrospective, Sprint review, Sprint planning etc
• Introduced visibility, transparency to the team & the company by providing a Scrum board and Metrics
• Coached and helped the Product Owner in writing good User Stories
• Exceptionally good understanding of development best practice, working to remove impediments and protecting the team from outside distraction and knowledge of long-term product planning in an empirical environment
• Helping the team in developing effective Product Backlog Management.
• Facilitated the establishment of a team protocols to resolve any team's conflicts.
• Coach the team on how to develop ownership of the sprints and delivering MVP and value to the company & customers by offering good estimation to the Product Owner.
• Encouraged the team to understanding the importance of Test-driven development (TDD) & BDD
• Managed onboarding of outsourced team members and organise accessibility to all required Dev environment while keeping the sprints goals alive
• Good knowledge of building service-oriented architectures and micro-services-based project
• Effective communication skills and experienced managing stakeholders across up to C-level (with teams and program metrics) and pragmatics when it comes to dealing with conflict.
Technology, UP, Guide, Organization, Accessibility, Coach, Development, Infrastructure, BDD, It, Offshore, TDD, Block Chain, Test, Coaching, Service, Kanban, Management, User stories, Onboarding, Agile coach, Product owner, C, Agile, Teaching, Scrum, Writing
2017 - 2017
job
Scrum Master
Carrefour Belgium (Retail).
Responsible for scope definition, Design and Implementation of the approach on the project during the transformation of the Finance Department, working in collaboration with the internal HR and IT team to deliver the Digital project on time, budget and with desired added Value to the customers (internal and external). Managing stakeholders' expectations and facilitating meeting, coaching the team on Agile principles, being the servant leader and facilitating group workshop and good exposure to Test Automation, QA Test Management, and Implementing Agile processes in the project.
Responsibilities include:
• Provide support and coaching to team and ensure agreed standard process is being followed in all the feature teams
• Effectively deal with team and programme planning or delivery issues & helping the Product Owner with User Stories by following the INVEST method.
• Nurturing new colleagues into the agile way of working via trainings
• Guides teams towards self-organisation, TDD, Increase transparency, Adaptation, and Inspection
• Utilised team and project metrics to show progress
• Represent all the feature teams in programme prioritisation and planning sessions when needed
• Report effectively on the progress of development or estimation, and escalate any issues in a considered and timely manner
• Guided and coached various Scrum teams on how to apply the 'sweet science' of Scrum to create good products mapping
• Building relationships and interfacing between customers and disparate teams
• Continuously challenge the ways of working within both the team and the programme, and be able to effectively address both process and people issues within your team and the programme where they are affecting your team's delivery
• Ensure that the team is empowered, yet has solid processes and good discipline
• Develop and maintain good relationships with key programme and business stakeholders
Responsibilities include:
• Provide support and coaching to team and ensure agreed standard process is being followed in all the feature teams
• Effectively deal with team and programme planning or delivery issues & helping the Product Owner with User Stories by following the INVEST method.
• Nurturing new colleagues into the agile way of working via trainings
• Guides teams towards self-organisation, TDD, Increase transparency, Adaptation, and Inspection
• Utilised team and project metrics to show progress
• Represent all the feature teams in programme prioritisation and planning sessions when needed
• Report effectively on the progress of development or estimation, and escalate any issues in a considered and timely manner
• Guided and coached various Scrum teams on how to apply the 'sweet science' of Scrum to create good products mapping
• Building relationships and interfacing between customers and disparate teams
• Continuously challenge the ways of working within both the team and the programme, and be able to effectively address both process and people issues within your team and the programme where they are affecting your team's delivery
• Ensure that the team is empowered, yet has solid processes and good discipline
• Develop and maintain good relationships with key programme and business stakeholders
Test, Processes, Workshop, Feature, Organization, Science, Development, Test automation, SOLID, Support, Transformation, Implementation, It, TDD, Design, Test management, QA, Finance, Management, User stories, Product owner, Automation, Agile, Scrum master, Budget, Scrum, Coaching
2017 - 2017
job
Agile Coach / Engagement Manager
Proudfoot.
Canada and Europe
To manage the digital team, Senior Consultants and Business analysts on a client Digital transformation/Communication projects in a commercial environment and ensure benefits/results are achieved according to schedule. Facilitate the integration of Agile within the client's teams to sustain a lean approach during and after the project.
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
• Establish credible and enduring professional business relationships with client at all senior executive levels and bringing them to collaboratively with the team
• Coached/Mentored Project Managers on how to use Agile, Lean framework to deliver business value. Adapt to the organisation needs such as hard deadlines or fixed dates and apply creative problem solving to meet such requirements
• Good understanding of Robotic Process Automation
• Strong communication skills, resilient and pragmatic
• Coaching the team in self-organisation and cross-functionality
• Removing impediments to aid the team's progress during its sprints commitments
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum ceremonies ((Daily stand up, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review, Retrospectives). Driving a culture of continuous improvement, resolving conflict through discussion and highly effective and productive teams.
• Acquainted with CI/CD environment, Scrum and Kanban
• Assisted the Dev team, with the resolution of any software defects or testing issues.
• Worked in BDD and TDD software testing environments
• Created metrics (Burndown chart, Release chart & Velocity Charts, Lean and Cycle time) for the teams and the organisation (stakeholders) with relevant feedback. Working with Agile Lead to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile across the organisation
• Develop a set of complete, clear, and comprehensive presentation material to communicate status and outcomes to the client in relation to the eminent change/delivery
• Process Management: identifying and implementing approaches to help our clients operate their business processes more effectively, transforming their organisation to drive performance through new governance and process roles
• Regularly assessing the agile maturity and culture of the teams, leadership, programme, and portfolio
To manage the digital team, Senior Consultants and Business analysts on a client Digital transformation/Communication projects in a commercial environment and ensure benefits/results are achieved according to schedule. Facilitate the integration of Agile within the client's teams to sustain a lean approach during and after the project.
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
• Establish credible and enduring professional business relationships with client at all senior executive levels and bringing them to collaboratively with the team
• Coached/Mentored Project Managers on how to use Agile, Lean framework to deliver business value. Adapt to the organisation needs such as hard deadlines or fixed dates and apply creative problem solving to meet such requirements
• Good understanding of Robotic Process Automation
• Strong communication skills, resilient and pragmatic
• Coaching the team in self-organisation and cross-functionality
• Removing impediments to aid the team's progress during its sprints commitments
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum ceremonies ((Daily stand up, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review, Retrospectives). Driving a culture of continuous improvement, resolving conflict through discussion and highly effective and productive teams.
• Acquainted with CI/CD environment, Scrum and Kanban
• Assisted the Dev team, with the resolution of any software defects or testing issues.
• Worked in BDD and TDD software testing environments
• Created metrics (Burndown chart, Release chart & Velocity Charts, Lean and Cycle time) for the teams and the organisation (stakeholders) with relevant feedback. Working with Agile Lead to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile across the organisation
• Develop a set of complete, clear, and comprehensive presentation material to communicate status and outcomes to the client in relation to the eminent change/delivery
• Process Management: identifying and implementing approaches to help our clients operate their business processes more effectively, transforming their organisation to drive performance through new governance and process roles
• Regularly assessing the agile maturity and culture of the teams, leadership, programme, and portfolio
TDD, CI / CD, UP, Manager, Processes, Framework, Organization, Software, Coach, Testing, Software testing, BDD, Transformation, Coaching, Integration, Robotic process automation, Kanban, Management, Lean, Leadership, Agile coach, Continuous improvement, Automation, Agile, Digital transformation, Scrum
2015 - 2017
job
Agile coach
Everest Ltd UK.
UK
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
• Coaching new and existing teams - supporting both the teams and the business Implementing change management culture in the organisation, coach & promoting best practice
• Responsible for all aspects of the planning process and to maintain and manage detailed plans throughout the project life cycle, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements.
• Worked with all stakeholders, contributors, and suppliers (including IT) to ensure project deliverables are met to plan and on budget.
• Governed internal resources with the aim to achieve project goals with embedded Agile principles
• Responsible for managing stakeholder's expectation via utilising the communications and training plan, to support the embedding of Agile change.
• Methodically developed action plans and risk management.
• Lead the development and maintenance of realistic and achievable project plans.
• Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
• Lead a gap analysis workshop with various departments (e.g. Installation Centre Management Team, call centres, production, and finance).
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
• Coaching new and existing teams - supporting both the teams and the business Implementing change management culture in the organisation, coach & promoting best practice
• Responsible for all aspects of the planning process and to maintain and manage detailed plans throughout the project life cycle, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements.
• Worked with all stakeholders, contributors, and suppliers (including IT) to ensure project deliverables are met to plan and on budget.
• Governed internal resources with the aim to achieve project goals with embedded Agile principles
• Responsible for managing stakeholder's expectation via utilising the communications and training plan, to support the embedding of Agile change.
• Methodically developed action plans and risk management.
• Lead the development and maintenance of realistic and achievable project plans.
• Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
• Lead a gap analysis workshop with various departments (e.g. Installation Centre Management Team, call centres, production, and finance).
Finance, Workshop, Production, Organization, Coach, Development, Support, It, Embedded, Change management, Management, Agile coach, Risk Management, Agile, Training, Budget, Coaching
2013 - 2015
job
Ops Improvement Analyst Manager & Scrum Master
Anglian Home.
UK
Managed multiple business change and IT projects simultaneously and implements tracking processes to monitor performance, compliance and improvements and facilitated, the Product Vision meeting, with the Product Management team. To discuss the project brief and to coach the Product Owner(s) on how best to present the Product Vision to the Development team.
• To support the business in the delivery of sustained business improvements through appropriate and effective activity including but not limited to research, analysis, and implementation of Agile process change and operational support.
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum ceremonies: Daily stand up, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review, Retrospectives
• Empowering the team to self-organize and being the servant leader for the team
• Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint outputs by removing blockers
• Produced the velocity and burndown chart for the team. Helping the team by removing all impediments and communicate with the wider organisation to help them understand Scrum
• Building open and effective working relationships with key stakeholders across business & IT teams
• Creating training materials, running training workshops for Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Identify/analyse data including current business KPIs to identify trends and highlight areas of business improvement.
• Developing and strategically implementing the necessary measures to deliver an outstanding operational and commercial results
• Responsible for all aspects of stakeholder management and communications activities as required and developed stakeholder management plans.
• Developed tasking orders to secure the provision of internal and external resources and manage their delivery.
• Facilitate, develop, and agree requirements, project scope and solutions for specific outputs and work packages.
• Maintained project cost and time estimates and ensured regular reviews are undertaken with each discipline to ensure they are accurate.
• Initiate the risk process including the identification, assessment, planning and implementation of risks, opportunities, and issues.
Managed multiple business change and IT projects simultaneously and implements tracking processes to monitor performance, compliance and improvements and facilitated, the Product Vision meeting, with the Product Management team. To discuss the project brief and to coach the Product Owner(s) on how best to present the Product Vision to the Development team.
• To support the business in the delivery of sustained business improvements through appropriate and effective activity including but not limited to research, analysis, and implementation of Agile process change and operational support.
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum ceremonies: Daily stand up, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review, Retrospectives
• Empowering the team to self-organize and being the servant leader for the team
• Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint outputs by removing blockers
• Produced the velocity and burndown chart for the team. Helping the team by removing all impediments and communicate with the wider organisation to help them understand Scrum
• Building open and effective working relationships with key stakeholders across business & IT teams
• Creating training materials, running training workshops for Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Identify/analyse data including current business KPIs to identify trends and highlight areas of business improvement.
• Developing and strategically implementing the necessary measures to deliver an outstanding operational and commercial results
• Responsible for all aspects of stakeholder management and communications activities as required and developed stakeholder management plans.
• Developed tasking orders to secure the provision of internal and external resources and manage their delivery.
• Facilitate, develop, and agree requirements, project scope and solutions for specific outputs and work packages.
• Maintained project cost and time estimates and ensured regular reviews are undertaken with each discipline to ensure they are accurate.
• Initiate the risk process including the identification, assessment, planning and implementation of risks, opportunities, and issues.
Workshops, UP, Manager, Processes, Organization, Coach, Development, Assessment, Analyst, Support, Implementation, It, Scrum, Compliance, Kanban, Management, Product owner, Stakeholder Management, Agile, Training, Scrum master, Research, Product Management
My education
University Lucien Cooremans
Masters, Transport Management & Logistics
Masters, Transport Management & Logistics
n/a
Secondary, N/a
Secondary, N/a
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