Derek Adkins Email & Phone Number

I am a Certified Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master. I consider myself an advocate for Agile and Scrum. Confident in my ability to patiently and clearly guide and train teams in the continuous improvement in planning, executing and delivering quality software and systems. I am passionate about coaching and assisting teams to embrace Agile. Specifically Scrum and Kanban.My focus these last 5 years has been in the delivery and execution of Scrum Agile projects across globally distributed teams. Managing projects across diverse customers with varying project and reporting requirements. Included is the creation of training videos and content used in onboarding new employees across the company. Administering the Atlassian suite of tools: Jira, Confluence, Service Desk etcPart of my role is to run all the Agile ceremonies, daily standups, retrospective etc, and then reconfigure and train the team based on previous sprint review and performance as required. I was also key in building a cohesive team with transparent reporting up to the executive level. This meant dealing with data analysis of sprint and epic velocities, dashboarding and ad hoc queries from stakeholders, and assisting with backlog prioritisation. Working closely with the business analysts, product owner, and development teams. (Offshore and onshore)I come from a technical background, being a development team leader in Microsoft technologies. (C# and Azure / AWS) This enables me to understand developers, and confidently translate and summarise development items into executive reports and presentations. I also set up the release management cycle including reporting and automated release notes and assisted the development team to create an effective code branching strategy to allow for accurate, testable, on time releases into production.As the Jira site administrator, I created simplified workflows with complex automations in order to keep theteam’s sprint stories, tasks and bugs up to date. This allowed for the creation of real time dashboards,widgets and Confluence pages reducing the need for stakeholders to contact the product manager, orengineers directly for updates.I am passionate about seeing teams “get it”, and start to see the benefits of executing Agile and Scrumsuccessfully.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, Vb.Net, Microsoft Sql Server, Web Applications, and 41 others.

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  Krugersdorp High School