Chris Roberts Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Sheffield, England, Gb

We’re Nimble, a collective of recognised specialists in Agile and Lean based delivery. We handpick elite teams to enable Heads of IT to deliver key roadmap projects at pace, without lengthy ramp up times, recruitment headaches or misalignment.

London, England, Gb

Actively led the UK Coaching function for the Agile @ Scale initiative. Large scale Scrum adoption combined with Lean principles, systems thinking and portfolio wide mindset change.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

At Nimble, we worked with some great people at RentalCars, doing Agile Coaching roles across a number of Product Feature teams of varying levels of maturity and setting up an in house Coaching function as part of the company's transformation.Worked with some great coaches to evolve the Agile Coaching team from scratch into a function that has its own identity, strategy, vision, roadmap and approach to continuously improving teams.

London, Gb

Delivery Lead coaching and playing a hands on delivery role using Kanban to focus on single item flow in a fast paced challenging environment.

London, Gb

Agile Leadership role where I successfully built the Home Office's first Digital Hub in the UK North from scratch.I created and shaped a permanent capability that can deliver high value early. Achieving this goal was broken down into the following areas:FUNDING- Building relationships with Key stakeholders- Defining the funding process- Feedback and shaping of charging modelPORTFOLIO- Visualising Sheffield Hub Portfolio- Showing demand vs supply and actively managing capacity- Cross referencing Portfolio view with onboarding and contract recruits- Exposing the need to prioritise through the use of WIP limits- Portfolio stand ups to address and share knowledge on the aboveCROSS SITE COLLABORATIONPromoting Sheffield and building relationships with other sites through:- All Hander Video conferences- Front Door stand up- Show and Tells- Hosting Viewpoints- Learning at work weekRECRUITMENT & ONBOARDING- Identifying on boarding process- Visualising the new starters and the process in the Hub- Ad hoc stand ups to share knowledge in the Hub- Defining what a good induction looks like - Organising 'Meet the team' style events- Arranging wider HOD inductions as new monthly event with Holly + HOPPERMANENT CAPABILITY- Identifying needs per discipline and team- Working with Holly and Heads of Profession to finalise roles needed to recruit for- Help shape HOD identity, brand and messaging for recruitment- Understand and help co-ordinate the recruitment process to keep it as Lean as possible- Identify, sift and interview for new Permanent Head of Hub role to help ensure right fitDELIVERY- Observe stand ups. - Gauge and discuss team health.- Be available and approachable as an escalation point to discuss issues/resolve blockers.- Setting up Chapter meetings to encourage discussion around discipline specific topics. - Setting up a HOD Sheffield Effective Ways of Working Guild.

London, Gb

London, London, Gb

Value driven consultancy focusing on the discipline of Accelerated Delivery (Agile), working with a wide range of clients worldwide.Work includes Northern Gas Networks, Wales & West Utilities and Bank of America.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Gb

- Worked as Scrum Master on a team of 10 people to successfully deliver a multi-million pound system migration & platform re-design programme for large public sector client using Scrum and XP methodologies across a number of iterative releases.- Coached a scrum team to assist them to effectively make the transition from Scrum to Kanban.- Set up a new working group called ‘Agile Friday Forum’ which became very popular throughout the company.- Facilitated ‘Introduction to Agile and Scrum basics’ workshop to public and private sector client and all levels within Technophobia.- Rolled out ‘What is Agile and What are Myths’ workshop in 6 different sessions across the whole company and with a range of clients.- Ran a Company wide festival on ‘Waterfall with Scrum - can it work?’- Presented a company wide session on Absolute vs Relative estimation within all levels of Technophobia.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, Gb

- Program management of demanding roadmap for company's highest value client.- Successful management and delivery of concurrent high value/time critical projects dealing with constantly shifting priorities.- Company's Agile consultant, assisting with in house queries and providing support for New Business pitches.- Mentoring and development of Account Executives/Account Managers and Junior Project Managers.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Gb

Scrum Master on a wide range of software development projects ranging from £50k to £2million.Led many projects using cross functional teams from as little as 3 to as many as 25 people, using Agile (Scrum/XP/Lean/Kanban etc) methodologies.One of the company's Agile Ambassadors 2011/2012. This involves facilitating workshops, delivering presentations, hosting Help clinics, and facilitating lunch & learn sessions to all areas of the business.Some of the key projects delivered include:- Million pound Migration and Re-design of large social Innovation platform for high demanding public sector client.- A full suite of business application forms for leading High Street Bank- Mobile optimised website for heavily branded retail client- Intelligent People Matching tool- Implementation of Single Sign on Authentication tool- Internal Holiday System- Server migration/large scale architectural re-modellingTwice winner of Employee of the Month 2011 (6 time nominee)

- Successfully managed all company projects through each stage of the project lifecycle. This was from sales pitch stage to requirements capture right through to go Live and ongoing maintenance.-Role involved good communication within a small team, and encouraging the sharing of ideas and best practices, team members tend to increase their levels of ownership and feel motivated.- Project and Relationship managed media and recruitment campaigns for several large blue chip clients- Planned and delivered a disaster recovery strategy for the company, a project which was well received by the Company MD.

London, Gb

- Planned and successfully delivered technical Mortgage training program in 3 phases to a team of 50 people in Hyderabad, India.-Co-ordination and people management of staff across 2 different continents and cultures.