Experienced business consultant, trainer, agile coach, author and practitioner with over 25 years' experience of adding value to public and private sector organisations. Particular strength include applying business analysis and agile techniques to help organisations become adaptive. Experienced throughout the product/system development lifecycle including development, system analysis, project management, requirements management, business analysis and transformational change.My particular strength is applying business analysis and agile techniques together to help organisations overcome challenging business problems. This is something I explored further as co-author of the BCS book, ‘Agile and Business Analysis’, published in 2017 and contributing author on 'Developing Information systems', published by BCS, 2014. I'm a Fellow (FBCS) of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and examiner and mentor for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.I am a regular speaker at european and international audiences on topics such as business agility, business analysis and synthesising agile, business analyse and change techniques and approaches. Currently working for CMC Partnership where I am both Head of Business Analysis and Agile practice lead. Skills & Competencies: => Certified Scrum Professions (CSP-SM) with ScrumAlliance.org=>Certified SCRUM Master, experienced in User Stories=> Business Analysis specialist => Certified Prosci Change Management Paractitioner=> Process Methodologies (RUP, SCRUM, SSADM, Lean, DSDM, SAFe)=> Stakeholder engagment and management=> Business improvement and transformation=> Data Modelling (OOA & D, UML, ERM)
Listed skills include Requirements Analysis, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Business Process Improvement, and 17 others.