Chris Andrews , Peterborough, United Kingdom

A highly experienced, pragmatic, certified, Senior SCRUM Master, Delivery Manager and Agile Coach with 20 years of expertise in software development, testing and Agile practices with an outstanding record of achievement with major Financial Companies, Investment Banks, the Educational Sector, Digital Media, Government Sector, E-Commerce Agencies and Consultancies. A determined and persistent problem solver with highly effective communications skills and an excellent reputation for introducing Agile principles, practices and benefits to leading organizations, demonstrating the benefits of Agile frameworks, allowing alteration to projects without untimely interference to development. Experienced in - Agile Adoption & transitions, load / performance testing, automated testing, Agile TDD / BDD, SCRUM, Kanban, XP, Agile testing, test automation rollout and framework creation. Specialties: Agile Adaption and transitions, Load/Performance Testing, Automated Testing, Agile TDD and BDD, Manual Testing, Automation Roll out and creation of Frameworks. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Novoda • Client relationship was strained, and morale was pretty low, so built up trust with the client and took time to understand what the issues where • Improved working conditions in an already late and deadline pressured environment, working with the Head of Development to roll out changes across the sites. • Implemented the highest impact changes, communication and transparency to build the foundations for a long-lasting relationship • Brought stability to the teams and introduced more cross functional communication, pair, sharing across sites. • Changes enabled us to deliver the project, which was already behind original schedule Emerald Publishing Group • Took over from the contract Transformation Director as sole agile consultant • Worked with all scrum teams and areas of the business, implementing Scrum and Kanban where required • Instrumental in invoking a move away from a 3rd party vendor that where blocking Emeralds ability to be agile • Working with all levels of Management across the company Director through to Line Managers • Planted a seed that questioned the traditional project managers approach of a two-year waterfall project delivery to be a more of an incremental modular build, reducing requirements gathering time by six months and starting the build earlier Which? • Promoted to the Lead Agile Delivery Manager to recruit and train permanent Agile Delivery Mangers. • Working with the senior management team to identify and resolve company/cultural level changes, carrying out assessments, document these and then reviewing. • Acted as a line manager for multiple scrum masters (1-1s, performance, objectives) • Requested by management to take on the SM Role of the Flagship project • Helped increase the transparency of the team, building better relationships with the team and senior management. • Acted as the lead Scrum Master during go live, co-ordinating multiple scrum teams during go live. • Successful completion of projects working with two offshore teams in Bulgaria • Acted as a change agent, working with the senior management team, identifying culture and larger changes required, recommending next steps. • Worked with all the development teams at Which, either as a scrum master or as an agile coach. • Coached the core product development team to be self-organising by splitting the SM role across the team after I had left as the role was not backfilled. Offshore Development Teams • Excellent track record working with and delivering projects with offshore teams. • Understanding the cultural differences in depth and being able to coach teams using a variety of techniques and changing the ways of learning. • Creating safe environments for the teams to be transparent and give open and honest feedback • Ensuring understanding of requirements and creating lots of opportunity to play back and demo work. • Excellent track record working with multiple companies working with offshore teams, located in India, Bulgaria, China and the Philippines.