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I am an extremely passionate and motivated information technology professional with experience of delivering in both start-up and FTSE100 environments. As an advocate of agile and lean philosophies I am relentlessly customer and delivery focused. I have extensive experience managing multiple work streams in a cross-functional environment where we encourage each other to find ways of delivering a testable product early, and thereby learning, as early as possible. I am an accomplished team leader, working to get the best from individuals, and well versed in building consensus and collaboration.Open minded and a good listener I'm always ready to hear a new point of view where it will lead to improvement or benefit to the customer.https://twitter.com/lazallenAreas of ExpertiseLeadership / Management• Extensive experience applying agile techniques and principles, including a rollout to a team of 60+ developers• Collaborating with people from other disciplines, departments and companies to achieve project success, promoting appropriate principles and methods when appropriate.• Leading development teams, creating momentum, flow and focus to reach goals.• Experience of co-ordinating both internal and external development projects, including stakeholder liaison.• Managing financial projections and reports at small business and project level.• Passionate about continuous improvement personally and within the teams I work with.Business Analysis• Driving the breakdown of high level goals to easily understood, valuable and measurable pieces of work.• Gathering requirements and input from stakeholders and through market research and various styles of customer/user engagement to ensure that possible output delivers the highest value. • Driving user testing and analytics to validate goals and create essential feedback to further inform development. • Writing effective user stories to ensure clarity of requirements using BDD techniques.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Project Management, and 20 others.