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❝Demonstrated success in evolving and transforming organisations and individuals to improve their effectiveness and efficiency in order to increase customer delightfulness and company's ROI❞Highly skilled in coaching companies on lean-agility mindset, values and principles, changing culture, evolving behaviours by introducing 300+ agile-lean practices and techniques depends on maturity, situation and need for change.Customer-Centric, Outcome-Focused and Change-Oriented Certified Advanced Lean-Agile professional, with over 20 years of experience across a variety of complex digital products and projects in different business environments and industries.Adept in coaching businesses and individuals to make sure that what they are offering is desirable, viable, feasible and sustainable value to their customers.More info ➤ http://mazdakabtin.com▲ Roles: Lean-Agile Coach, Product Manager, Product Owner▲ Approaches: Over 15 years’ experience in Agile-Lean / 7 years in Predictive (Waterfall-Traditional)▲ Frameworks: Heart of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Nexus, FDD, RUP, Waterfall, BABOK 3.0, UCD▲ Industries: IT, Management Consultancy, Oil & Gas, Banking, Finance, HCM/Payroll, Education ▲ Platform: Web-based, SaaS, Cloud, Windows, Mobile apps (Android& iOS)▲ Business Model: B2B, B2C and C2C▲ Business Environments: 5 Corporates (well-established), 2 Growing, 7 Start-up➤ As an Agile Coach:✔ Proven record in increasing business's ROI by making customer delightfulness the main focus✔ Skilled in transforming organizations and evolve individuals mindset to be more Agile✔ Expert in designing and baselining lean-agile maturity and targeted scientific coaching based on facts and figure➤ As a Product Manager/Owner:✔ Demonstrated success in defining business and product vision, devising strategies, managing roadmaps, defining outcomes and driving change to address business objectives✔ Experienced in strategic planning, market research and product differentiation, market analysis, segmentation, value proposition, competitor analysis and positioning✔ Committed to continuously delivering the highest possible value through constantly and collaboratively liaising with clients, business sides and leading cross-functional teams across all SDLC phases
Mazdak Abtin Work Experience Details
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Agile Transformation CoachInfosys Feb 2023 - PresentBangalore, Karnataka, In➤ Mentor, support, and coach delivery teams to deepen their understanding and application of agile methodologies.➤ Guide leaders and executives in shifting their mindset towards agile principles and emerging practices.➤ Collaborate with teams to review and enhance current systems and processes, ensuring the adoption of agile emerging practices.➤ Encourage and nurture an agile mindset across the organization, aligning with emerging practices in the industry to facilitate cultural change.➤ Lead and conduct interactive workshops and training sessions for a diverse array of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.➤ Create comprehensive training materials, artefacts, and documentation to support and streamline the agile implementation process.➤ Develop and maintain strategic relationships within the business and with external agencies to promote collaboration and agile adoption. -
Co-Founder / CeoIagile.Coach Jun 2018 - PresentMelbourne, Victoria, Au -
Co-Founder | Career Coach | Agile Product ManagerIcareer.Coach Sep 2013 - PresentMelbourne, Victoria, Au➤ Practices and Techniques: Personas, User Story, Story Decomposition, Story Elaboration, Storyboarding, Prototyping, Use Cases and Scenarios, Planning Workshop, Interviews, Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, MoSCoW, Story Mapping, Backlog Management, Estimation, Observation, Retrospectives, Benchmarking, Concept Modelling, Scope Modelling, Relative Estimation►Approach: Adaptive (Agile), Framework: Hybrid Scrum and Kanban, Platform: Windows application▲ Collaboratively communicated with and engaged 15 stakeholders in seven standalone CFS modules on a Greenfield project. Established and maintained effective working relationships, provided facilitation plans for the most appropriate approach and conducted stakeholder analysis.▲ Increased accuracy and consistency of information gathered during elicitation sessions by 95%, by checking and confirming elicitation results.▲ Delivered 100% of required values and aligned all designs with the business requirements, goals and objectives of the change, by validating the extracted specifications.▲ Successfully provided mitigation strategies to prevent more than 80% of major risks by assessing and analysing the dangers associated with achieving the future state.▲ Efficiently simulated and implemented prototypes of seven modules of CFS application with more than 230 business rules by communicating and prioritising around 200 identified functional and non-functional requirements.▲ Creatively improved the career development process cost and time sixfold by designing and developing the Career Fit Suit application.▲ Improved the value of the solution by understanding the factors that create differences between potential and actual value; recommended a course of action to align them and evaluate the solution performance. -
Agile Transformation Coach (Coe)Anz Nov 2018 - Feb 2024Melbourne, Victoria, Au➤ Influencing, coaching, and supporting NWOW CoE Australia Division, CoE lead, Chapter Leads, including 60 coaches and three tribes (approximately 70 squads and 700 people)➤ Increased Delivery Predictability of two business entities (400+ people) by 60%➤ Base-lined Agile-lean maturity of NWOW transformation and devised systemic coaching roadmap by becoming OKR owner of the first Agile maturity assessment (NWOW Reflection) conducted on 80 squads➤ Invented, designed, and observed the execution of NWOW Reflection by shaping and leading a strategic cross-functional team➤ Continually coached CoE coaches on outcome-oriented, value-driven coaching and measuring the impact across Australia Division➤ Established and lead a strategic transformation squad of coaches for the Center of Expertise of Australia Division to define the vision, devise the strategy, and set OKRs (Objective and Key result)➤ Designed the first Coaching Capability Assessment to assess the coaching capability➤ Designed and established the transformation operating model at scale I coach leaders to▲ Adapt Agile mindset and culture across multiple portfolios, tribe, and squads▲ Empower people to be self-organized, self-adaptive by making the decision collectively▲ Be customer-focus rather than product or technology focusFrameworks, Practices and Techniques:► ANZ NWOW: New Ways of Leading, Growth Mindset, Great Habits, Anti Pattern Behaviour, Great Place to Work► NWOW Practice: Big Room Planning, Huddle, POCLAC, Tribe Inspect & Adapt, Tribe Sync, Scrum master guild► MLAMP: Mazdak's Lean Agile Maturity Pyramid ► Lean Start-up: Hypothesis-driven development (HDD)► Heart of Agile: Collaboration card, Blind game► Management 3.0: Delegation poker, personal map and motivation game► XP practices: User story, Story decomposition, Pair working, Unit testing, refactoring► Others: Story- Mapping, Behavioural Development Driven (BDD), Kanban Board -
Agile Coach / Chapter Lead13Cabs Jun 2018 - Oct 2018Oakleigh, Victoria, Au -
Agile Transformation Coach (Via Dxc)Telstra Oct 2017 - Jun 2018Sydney, Nsw, AuInfluencing, coaching and mentoring Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, Product Owners and Teams to learn how to▲ Deal with uncertainty in the complex and complicated situations▲ Embed Agile values, live and breathe Agile principles▲ Build a safe environment where Transparency, Trust and Focus are the keys to success▲ Effectively collaborate and bring a shared vision to teams, their organization and customer▲ Minimise potential risks by delivering values incrementally to the market and receive early feedback▲ Empower people to be a self-organised, self-adaptive by making the decision collectively▲ Continuously learn from failure and improve the product and themselves accordingly -
Agile Transformation Coach / Chapter LeadDxc Technology Jun 2017 - Jun 2018Ashburn, Virginia, UsWe have met the challenges of innovation many times before, and have a clear and confident visionfor navigating the future.DXC Technology is a technology company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia. DXC provides information technology and consulting services to enterprise clients. The company operates in more than 70 countries and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DXC” and is a component of the S&P 500 index. -
Agile Transformation Coach (Via Dxc)Cenitex Jun 2017 - Sep 2017Melbourne, Victoria, Au➤ Practices and Techniques: • Scrum Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Sprint review, Retrospective and product refinement.• XP practices: User story, Story decomposition, Pair working, Unit testing, Definition of Done (DoD), refactoring, Velocity and Burn-down chart• Heart of Agile: Collaboration card, Blind game.• Management 3.0: Delegation poker, personal map and motivation game• Lean Startup: Hypothesis-driven development (HDD)• Others: Story Decomposition, Estimation Poker, Behavioral Development Driven test case (BDD), Story- Mapping, Kanban Board, MoSCoW►Approach: Adaptive (Agile), Framework: Prince2Agile, Platform: Multiple ICT infrastructure projects▲ Designed and conducted four brand new Agile collaborative games to address cross-skilling, skill-gap assessment, capacity planning, mapping roles▲ Successfully created a mindset of Continuous inspection, adaption Improvement by coaching the Team Agile Practices ▲ Transformed individual working culture to the self-motivated and high performing team by facilitating management 3.0 best practices such as motivation game and delegation poker.▲ Provided an effective decision modeling in the management level to continuously identifying and removing impediments by Initiating and designing establishing Lean coffee retro sessions.▲ Successfully delivered five green filed projects in Agile manner which led to increased customer satisfaction from 20% to 65%.▲ Decreased delivery time of a typical project from five months into three months.▲ Increased ROI by decreasing Time to Market and Identifying risks upfront that avoids Waste.▲ Significantly Increased Customer collaboration for new projects which let to provide an effective and rapid feedback loop.▲ Delivery teams became self-motivated and self-organized enough to manage their own time and task which increased team’s commitment and accountability -
Agile Team Coach | Product OwnerFrontier Software Sep 2016 - Jun 2017Lightwater, Surrey, Gb➤ Practices and Techniques: Business and scope modelling, Document Analysis, Estimation, Process mapping, data models, data flow diagram, story decomposition, use cases and test cases (BDD), wireframing, mock-ups▲ Successfully delivered four light weighted specifications in order to implement advanced customisation on CHRIS21 and HR21 for the Government of South Australia (GSA) and Police of South Australia (SAPOL)▲ Proactively identified six strategic improvement areas across the Frontier software company▲ Successfully gathered high-level requirement for the brand new Spanish Payroll System based on ICHRIS▲ Gained intensive knowledge about Payroll Processing, Leave Management, Accounting, Pay Adjustments. Advanced Customisation, Terminations and Self Service -
Agile Business Coach | Strategic Business Analyst Consultant (Casual Contract)Learnovate Hub Aug 2014 - Oct 2014Kilsyth, Vic, AuSuccessfully provided business strategic consultation services including business analysis, strategic planning, marketing planning and brand development -
Agile Coach | Change Manager | Senior Product ManagerSazeh Consultants Jul 2010 - May 2013Tehran, Tehran, Ir➤ Practices and Techniques: Planning game, Pair programming, Unit Testing, User Story, Story Decomposition, Story Elaboration, Story Mapping, Storyboarding, Business Rules Analysis, Data Mining, Decision Modelling, Document Analysis, Interface Analysis, Stand-up Meeting, Focus Groups, Workshop, Item Tracking, Mind Mapping, Prioritization, Process Modelling, Prototyping, Real Options, Root Cause Analysis, Stakeholder analysis► Approach: Agile, Framework: XP, Platform: Web-based (SaaS) application ▲ Derived strategic change and promoted innovative thinking to the product team to ensure continuous improvement, meet and ultimately exceed expectation for three integrated document management SaaS based digital products. ▲ Successfully transited the organisation to Agile, by leading and coaching Agile adoption projects and contributing to expanding the understanding of agile principles, values and best practices.▲ Reduced the cost of VCS product by 20% by collaborating and consulting with 31 internal and external stakeholders including Project Director, Engineering, and Procurement Managers, Management Contractor, Software Development, Delivery Team and Licensor Companies.▲ Reduced processing time of the document workflow in the ECS application by two thirds by identifying improvement opportunities and defining, assessing and selecting a technical solution to move 85% of paper-based activities online.▲ Increased consistency of engineering documents and records from 60-90% by providing a digital solution to integrate and centralise four separate local databases.▲ Continuously determined internally restricted factors for the full realisation of improving, enhancing and optimising each project’s document workflow by assessing limitations and validating solutions, while considering policies and procedures, forms, templates and project authorisation guidelines. -
Agile Business Coach | Agile Business AnalystForsat Management Consulting Institute Jul 2009 - Jul 2010➤ Practices and Techniques: PESTEL, MOST analysis, SWOT, Ansoft BOX, Mind mapping, CATWOE, RACI, Risk analysis, Impact Analysis, Business Case, User Story, Story Decomposition, Functional Modelling, Data Modelling, Mockup, wireframing, Prototyping► Approach: Agile, Framework: SCRUM▲ Devised Forsat business plan as a strategic solution and two online system solutions by identifying business needs and requirements including existing problems, opportunities and constraints based on current state analysis, reasons for change and affected areas.▲ Optimised business analysis activities for two medium- and one small-size projects by defining an appropriate approach, proper tools and techniques in collaboration with the board of directors, CEO and shareholders.▲ Constructively managed the effects of change on the business plan’s requirements while optimising the process of impact analysis and reducing inconsistencies by tracing requirements through business rules analysis, functional decomposition and process and scope modelling.▲ Considerably enhanced invoice calculation accuracy and shortened issuing time via Online Invoicing System (OIS) application by ensuring that the requirements worked in harmony, defining architecture, providing suitable viewpoints for each stakeholder, organising needs and choosing appropriate scope modelling.▲ Provided insights into the efficacy of three main solutions in relation to their value for stakeholders by analysing performance measures and recommendations, determining expected value, defining acceptable solutions and observing them in action.
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Business Development ConsultantZamin Psychology Group Sep 2008 - Jul 2009▲ Imaginatively defined future situations, business goals, SMART objectives, desired outcomes and potential values in the company’s business plan, considering new capability requirements, assumptions and business constraints with the board of directors. ▲ Methodically developed a common vision and shared understanding of business analysis information for shareholders and board of directors, by communicating material through interviews, reviews, and workshops.▲ Steadily increased usability and quality of requirements and design specifications and models in Zamin business portal by verifying through acceptance criteria, item tracking, and evaluation with KPIs.▲ Consistently retained accuracy throughout and beyond changes during the requirements’ life cycle, and supported their reuse in other solutions.▲ Increased efficiency of Zamin-Koodak portal’s development process by 30%, by transferring and clarifying its business processes and system specifications through analysis of all business requirements, considering company’s action plan and marketing procedures.► Approach: Agile, Framework: Kanban, Platform: Web-based application -
Technichal Delivery Lead | Iteration ManagerVala Value Adding Co Aug 2006 - Sep 2008▲ Successfully managed and delivered STM web application project through all SDLC phases from initiation to test and implementation, collaborating with the project owner, management contractor, UI designers and full stack developers.▲ Increased stakeholder satisfaction from 50% to 90% and facilitated changes by drawing out, exploring and identifying information during elicitation activities.▲ Improved accessibility and reliability of business analysis information by developing a hybrid approach for managing it alongside requirements.▲ Accurately analysed, synthesised and refined all elicitation results into functional and non-functional requirements and designs through specification and modelling.▲ Met most stakeholder expectations and minimised risk while preventing conflicts with other requirements by evaluating the implications of the proposed changes for designs, assessing changes and managing traceability. ▲ Increased project efficiency by 15% by providing practical solutions such as replacing user voting method with credit ranking, optimised built-in search engine and interactive graphical user interface, and used IP detection distance method to post code index method with “USA Geo-postcodes” database.► Approach: Predictive, Framework: Waterfall, Platform: Web-based application
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Digital Consultant (Product Manager | Project Manager | Business System Analyst)Karafarin Bank Feb 2006 - Jul 2006Ir▲ Improved technical support for 13 software applications by assessing business analysis work and identifying and managing performance improvements.▲ Increased efficiency of elicitation workshop by defining scope, selecting appropriate techniques and planning supporting materials and resources with IT department manager. ▲ Supportively formed and led research and development team of four people in IT department to systematically identify problems and issues in all SDLC phases and provide best solutions for improving or managing issues.▲ Reduced the maintenance cost of LC (Letter Credit) financial system by 80% in 35 branches by discovering improvement opportunities and implementing proper solutions including centralising and normalising databases and designing a UTF-8 standard font alongside software development team.▲ Established the most appropriate design options such as proposing Ticket Tracker System and Bug Tracker System to meet the IT departments’ requirements, by estimating the potential value and defining the business case for each of them.▲ Evaluated the effectiveness of solutions in relation to their value by defining solution performance measures and assessing performance through use of observation, focus groups and business case techniques.▲ Reduced vendor assessment process time by two-thirds by designing and standardising a business requirements package, including a request for information (RFI), request for proposal (RFP) and request for quote (RFQ) documents, while evaluating and approving the purchase of new software.▲ Significantly improved the user experience of the Ticket Tracker (TTS) and Bug Tracker (BTS) systems by providing technical guidance and developing self-study interactive multimedia. ▲ Decreased delivery time of TTS and BTS from 150 to 110 days by conducting effective business analysis activities and monitoring and controlling projects.► Approach: Predictive, Framework: RUP, Platform: Web-based application -
Founder | Ceo | Board Of DirectorCas (Chakad Andishe Sharif) Consultancy Jun 1999 - Jul 2006Melbourne, Au▲ Successfully formed and established It-Managment consultancy in cooperation with nine shareholders.▲ Developed high-quality business strategies and plans ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives▲ Lead and motivate subordinates to advance employee engagement develop a high performing managerial team▲ Overseed all operations and business activities to ensure they produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission▲ Made high-quality investing decisions to advance the business and increase profits▲ Enforced adherence to legal guidelines and in-house policies to maintain the company’s legality and business ethics▲ Reviewed financial and non-financial reports to devise solutions or improvements▲ Built trust relations with key partners and stakeholders and act as a point of contact for important shareholders▲ Analyzed problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth▲ Maintained a deep knowledge of the markets and industry of the company -
Digital Consultant (Icdl Trainer | Project Manager | Product Owner | Software Developer)Khazar Cement Co. 2003 - 2005Ir▲ Reduced bonus calculation processing time from 14 days to 4 hours by developing a calculator through business analysis and liaisons with business domain experts.▲ Decreased payment processing time by providing a standard protocol between the company and the bank in CSV format instead of hardcopy papers, through an automatic specific report generated by Bonus Calculator software.▲ Ensured the reliability of Bonus Calculator software by doing extensive testing with a variety of data in different scenarios.► Approach: Agile, Framework: Kanban, Platform: Windows -
Digital Consultant (Chief Web Officer | Agile Business Analyst)Fara Publishing Company Apr 2003 - Dec 2004-, Oo▲ Collaboratively analysed and tested two projects’ requirements by liaising with a variety of stakeholders including project managers, lead business analyst, software developers and content management officer.► Approach: Adaptive and Predictive, Framework: Hybrid, Platform: Web-based application -
Digital Consultant (Business System Analyst)Sharif University Of Technology Feb 2002 - Apr 2003Tehran, Ir▲ Enhanced eMagazine website accessibility by providing a solution to convert content to standard Unicode (UTF-8) through analysing situation and identifying requirements for the change.▲ Optimised the performance of the website by reducing the size of the content and downloadable PDF files and identifying and assessing possible improvements.► Approach: Adaptive and Predictive, Framework: Hybrid, Platform: Web-based application -
Technical Troubleshooting Officer (Internship)Bank Of Industry And Mine Jun 2001 - Oct 2001Tehran, Tehran, Ir▲ Fixed relevant reported PC issues by monitoring and troubleshooting PC including registry cleaning, and system tuning▲ Delivered 90% of IT helpdesk lesson learns to the IT manager and share them with other team members by documenting and preparing daily and weekly reports through the classifying type of issues, number of problems, their status in each category and taken actions. -
Lean Business Process AnalystSamsung Jul 1999 - Dec 1999▲ Optimised the production of orbit equipment from 600 pieces to 900 (50%) through re-engineering the packaging and soldering process, designing an all-in-one specific tool and automatic foot pedal, and streamlining the heating of gum.▲ Saved cutting wire time by combining diagonal pliers and Allen tool together as one integrated tool.▲ Increased reaction time of operator by designed automatic foot pedal.▲ Optimised process of heating gum by eliminating unnecessary traditional steps.▲ Reduced packaging time by implementing automatic packaging Ferrite.▲ Organised the location order of raw materials.▲ Improved soldering process by replaced single soldering with bulk soldering.► Approach: BPR-Six Sigma, Framework: Lean-DMAIC, Platform: Factory machinery
Mazdak Abtin Skills
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Agile Methodologies
Product Development
Product Management
Strategic Planning
Strategy Analysis
Business Strategy
Project Management
Business Development
Business Analysis
Sdlc
Web Development
Requirements Gathering
Change Management
Business Process Improvement
Marketing Strategy
Agile Project Management
Scrum
Team Leadership
Career Development Coaching
Elicitation And Collaboration
Requirements Analysis And Design Definition
Business Modeling
Change Strategy Analysis
Stakeholder Collaboration Management
Requirements Life Cycle Management
Solution Evaluation
Business Analysis Approach
Elicitation Confirmation
Design Options
Potential Value Analysis
Solution Recommendation
Requirements Architecture
Requirements Specification
Requirements Modelling
Requirements Validation
Requirements Changes Assessment
Requirements Maintenance
Requirements Prioritization
Requirements Traceability
Solution Limitations Assessment
Solution Value Enhancement
Performance Measures Analysis
Current State Analysis
Future State Definition
Risks Impact Assessment
Process Improvement And Optimisation
Value Stream Mapping
Business Planning
Mazdak Abtin Education Details
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Advanced Agile Master Class With Dr. Alistair Cockburn #2 (Co-Author Of The Agile Manifesto)Software Development -
Advanced Agile Master Class With Dr. Alistair Cockburn #1 (Co-Author Of The Agile Manifesto)Software Develpment
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Victoria UniversityBusiness And Information System
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Victoria UniversityBusiness (Enterprise)
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Mazdak Abtin works for Infosys
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Mazdak Abtin's current role is Business Transformation Lead | Agile Lean Coach.
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Mazdak Abtin attended Advanced Agile Master Class With Dr. Alistair Cockburn #2 (Co-Author Of The Agile Manifesto), Advanced Agile Master Class With Dr. Alistair Cockburn #1 (Co-Author Of The Agile Manifesto), Victoria University, Victoria University.
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