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Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Consultant
Andy Smith
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Tregaron, United Kingdom
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Senior Enterprise Agile Coach and Agile Transformation Consultant with experience of building high performing teams and scaled agile organisations to create valuable business and customer outcomes.
Adept at engaging teams and individuals to buy into change objectives, set goals and achieve them. I focus on guiding the creation of an organisation and environment that can support and grow teams by listening, questioning and drawing out the internal challenges.
What I have learned is that there is no "one size fits all" solution and, therefore, the services I offer are tailored to be the perfect fit for each individual client and role.
Adept at engaging teams and individuals to buy into change objectives, set goals and achieve them. I focus on guiding the creation of an organisation and environment that can support and grow teams by listening, questioning and drawing out the internal challenges.
What I have learned is that there is no "one size fits all" solution and, therefore, the services I offer are tailored to be the perfect fit for each individual client and role.
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United Kingdom
Germany
Lithuania
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Finland
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2015 - ?
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Company Director
Get Agile Consulting Ltd..
Founder and owner at Get Agile Consulting Limited successfully building and growing a personal services consulting business with a turnover in excess of £150k.
Agile transformation, Agile advisor, Agile methodologies, Agile coach, Strategy and business development, Marketing, Communication, Write articles, SCRUM coaching, Kanban Coaching, Scrum, Kanban, Agile project management, Agile Project and Portfolio Management
2021 - 2022
freelance
Enterprise Agile Coach
BP.
Enterprise Agile Coach in the Applied Sciences steering the transition from traditional to agile ways of working for this (non-IT) group of scientists and engineers responsible for driving bp’s transition to a net-zero company. In this role I am accountable for enabling the 60+ teams to adopt an agile mindset, values, principles, practices, tools and (for some) Agile frameworks. So far I have guided 25 teams to successful adoption in addition to coaching the portfolio team to adopt a Lean approach, mentoring junior coaches at team and team of teams level, training non IT team in the best ways to extract value from MS ADO and being a key member of the Agile Transformation Unit.
Agile coach, Agile transformation
2020 - 2020
freelance
Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Consultant
AstraZeneca.
Transforming software delivery in Enabling Units IT in order to deliver a global learning ecosystem. I trained, coached and mentored the team to deliver two critical applications on time, in budget and with a far greater scope than initially imagined.
In addition I have coached a number of other teams to succeed with Agile Methodologies, Scrum and Kanban, delivering more value in less time and with higher quality than was previously possible.
Utilising my skills and experience of Agile PPM I was able to guide the team through long range planning for their portfolio backlog items and have introduced them to techniques such as Demand & Capacity Planning, (SAFe) Program Increment Planning, Agile Governance & Controls and, critically for this client, how Agile teams can extract the maximum value from their chosen Agile framework whilst maintaining compliance with a traditional PMO process.
I delivered an exemplar of Agile best practice that is being used by other areas in the business to accelerate their own Agile transformation journeys. I am proud to say that the teams I have worked with are not only doing Agile but have started to think and be Agile. I took an group that thought only in terms of short lived project teams and implanted the idea of long lived Product teams capable of undertaking multiple projects over the lifetime of their Product.
In addition I have coached a number of other teams to succeed with Agile Methodologies, Scrum and Kanban, delivering more value in less time and with higher quality than was previously possible.
Utilising my skills and experience of Agile PPM I was able to guide the team through long range planning for their portfolio backlog items and have introduced them to techniques such as Demand & Capacity Planning, (SAFe) Program Increment Planning, Agile Governance & Controls and, critically for this client, how Agile teams can extract the maximum value from their chosen Agile framework whilst maintaining compliance with a traditional PMO process.
I delivered an exemplar of Agile best practice that is being used by other areas in the business to accelerate their own Agile transformation journeys. I am proud to say that the teams I have worked with are not only doing Agile but have started to think and be Agile. I took an group that thought only in terms of short lived project teams and implanted the idea of long lived Product teams capable of undertaking multiple projects over the lifetime of their Product.
Enterprise Agile, Agile transformation, Agile advisor, Agile coach, Agile trainer, Agile methodologies, Agile project management, Continuous improvement, SAFe coach, Stakeholder Management, Business Optimization, Business strategy, Stakeholder involvement, Organisational Agile, SCRUM coaching, Kanban Coaching, Agile project portfolio management, Agile Metrics
2017 - 2020
freelance
Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Consultant
Solera Holdings Inc. EMEA Region.
Reporting to the EMEA MD as the Enterprise Agile Coach I led the successful transformation from country siloes, using traditional/hybrid methods, to a scaled regional Agile delivery organisation with SAFe adoption.
I defined the strategy, structure and an implementation plan of training, coaching and measuring the pivot, from a siloed disjointed project based portfolio, to an overarching unified EMEA Product portfolio.
I trained, coached and mentored the whole business from ExCo to Help desk and left a coaching and learning culture to build on the hugely successful customer, employee and business outcomes already delivered.
I defined the strategy, structure and an implementation plan of training, coaching and measuring the pivot, from a siloed disjointed project based portfolio, to an overarching unified EMEA Product portfolio.
I trained, coached and mentored the whole business from ExCo to Help desk and left a coaching and learning culture to build on the hugely successful customer, employee and business outcomes already delivered.
Enterprise Agile, Organisational Agile, Agile transformation, Agile advisor, Agile coach, Agile trainer, Agile methodologies, SAFe coach, SCRUM coaching, Scrum training, Kanban Coaching, Business Optimization, Business strategy, Change management, Stakeholder involvement, Stakeholder Management, Agile project management, Project portfolio management
2015 - 2017
freelance
Senior Agile Coach
Barclays Plc.
Reporting to the Head of New Ways or Working I acted as a Senior Agile Coach in the client's Group Agile Adoption Support team, collectively responsible for the global strategy, framework, and guidance to the overall Agile transformation program.
I served on the DevOps Leadership Forum and Barclays Agility Council with responsibilities for Communications, defining an Agile Vendor Engagement Strategy and defining Agile metrics.
Additionally I transitioned the Global Data Systems & Insights business unit (1,800 people) from waterfall to Agile through a global federated model of junior coaches and Agile champions.
I served on the DevOps Leadership Forum and Barclays Agility Council with responsibilities for Communications, defining an Agile Vendor Engagement Strategy and defining Agile metrics.
Additionally I transitioned the Global Data Systems & Insights business unit (1,800 people) from waterfall to Agile through a global federated model of junior coaches and Agile champions.
Agile, Agile coach, Enterprise Agile, Agile trainer, LeSS Large Scale Scrum, DA Disciplined Agile Delivery, Kanban Coaching, SCRUM coaching, Agile Central, Vendor Management, Jira
2013 - 2015
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Senior Agile Coach
Hewlett Packard.
As a senior Agile Coach I established myself as a respected advisor, coach, and trainer to stakeholders of all levels in multi-vendor landscapes across the EMEA region. In this role I played a significant part in establishing the credibility of HP ES as a thought leader and trusted partner for Agile at scale and, in my role on collective bid teams, delivered £Millions in new Agile software delivery business.
I was also required to continue my Programme management role with Vodafone UK, a relationship that began in late 2009 when I turned around a failing relationship with the client by transitioning the delivery model from traditional waterfall to scaled agile Scrum. This was achieved by flying in a small team of developers and testers from our offshore delivery centre and establishing them as a Scrum team in the middle of the Vodafone product management team.
Within 3 months my team was delivering more value in a single Sprint than had been delivered in the whole of the previous year. In the first 12 months of my tenure we had grown to 15 Scrum Teams delivering increments of near zero defect code in every iteration to delighted Vodafone stakeholders.
I was also required to continue my Programme management role with Vodafone UK, a relationship that began in late 2009 when I turned around a failing relationship with the client by transitioning the delivery model from traditional waterfall to scaled agile Scrum. This was achieved by flying in a small team of developers and testers from our offshore delivery centre and establishing them as a Scrum team in the middle of the Vodafone product management team.
Within 3 months my team was delivering more value in a single Sprint than had been delivered in the whole of the previous year. In the first 12 months of my tenure we had grown to 15 Scrum Teams delivering increments of near zero defect code in every iteration to delighted Vodafone stakeholders.
Agile coach, Agile transformation, Agile advisor, Agile trainer, Agile methodologies, Agile project management, Stakeholder involvement, Stakeholder Management, Product ownership, SCRUM coaching, Kanban Coaching, Enterprise Agile, Organisational Agile
2009 - 2013
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Agile Coach
MphasiS UK.
I founded and led a global agile consulting Centre of Excellence with 15 core members, responsible for driving awareness and adoption of Agile methods for IT delivery in digital business.
In this role I was accountable for ensuring that the principles and values of Agile software development were applied to all client engagements that utilized agile frameworks.
This approach ensured that MphasiS were not just doing agile, within the traditional black box of an SI, but were being agile and becoming trusted partners in the delivery ecosystem.
In this role I was accountable for ensuring that the principles and values of Agile software development were applied to all client engagements that utilized agile frameworks.
This approach ensured that MphasiS were not just doing agile, within the traditional black box of an SI, but were being agile and becoming trusted partners in the delivery ecosystem.
Agile coach, Agile advisor, Agile trainer, Agile methodologies, SCRUM coaching, Kanban Coaching, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder involvement, Agile project management, Change management
2004 - 2013
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Senior Agile Program Delivery Manager
MphasiS UK.
At MphasiS UK, formerly Princeton Consulting who were Europe’s first Siebel SI partner, I led various assignments such as, strategic CRM, change management, operational implementation and technology implementation programmes. During this time I learned to lead multi-disciplined, organisational, cultural and distributed teams.
Agile program managment, Agile project management, Stakeholder Management, Remote team management, Stakeholder involvement, Scrum master, SCRUM coaching, Agile methodologies, Agile development, Agile coach, Change management
My education
1995
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1998
Open University Business School
MBA, Business Administration
MBA, Business Administration
1984
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1985
Business and Technology Education Council
HND, Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications)
HND, Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications)
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