Muhammad Meghji

Muhammad Meghji Email and Phone Number

Founder and Host | Scrum Alliance Community Group @ Agile Northants
Leicester, GB
Muhammad Meghji's Location
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Muhammad Meghji's Contact Details

Muhammad Meghji personal email

About Muhammad Meghji

A people centred Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and ScrumMaster (CSM) who is passionate and self-motivated with 15+ years of experience coaching corporate organisations and teams using Agile principles and values.Thriving with in-depth knowledge and application of the Agile principles within the various frameworks of Scrum, Kanban and Lean, he can pragmatically promote, encourage and support their adoption through structured conversations leading towards small and incremental improvements focused on business outcomes. His drive for ‘inspect and adapt’ is a continuous journey towards nurturing a high-performing organisation.With solid international experience working in a multitude of cultures and diverse teams, stacked with 4+ years of experience with geographically distributed teams, he is able to remain delivery focused, reach consensus amongst teams and stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments to customers whilst taking the organisation on a value driven transformation journey.His greatest asset is his enthusiastic and effective communication, together with his reflective and focused style that he uses to explore the needs of the individuals, teams and organisation. Through this, he helps his clients co-create a sustainable and effective development path for internal agile coaches using the Dreyfus model and Agile Coaching Competency framework including foundation training, topic-specific masterclasses, facilitated interactive workshops and 1-2-1 on going coaching to create the necessary conditions for success and reduce the reliance on experienced and external agile coaches which achieving business outcomes.A servant leader and powerful influencer, he is well versed in different coaching styles often tailoring the approach to suit the needs of the team and organisation. He does this by fostering an environment of transparency, trust and openness and creating coaching agreements and its outcomes from the outset.His strong and active presence in the agile community locally and internationally has seen him invited to speak at various agile events and gatherings where he shares his humble experience with like-minded individuals in the industry. His avid drive to learn also sees him participate and contribute to several agile groups and conferences worldwide.He is the founder and host of the Scrum Alliance affiliated Agile Northants community group in UK boasting 2000+ members attracting 30+ Agile enthusiasts monthly since April 2016 bringing both upcoming and world recognised speakers in the agile community.

Muhammad Meghji's Current Company Details
Agile Northants

Agile Northants

View
Founder and Host | Scrum Alliance Community Group
Leicester, GB
Website:
meetup.com/Agile-Northants
Employees:
3
Muhammad Meghji Work Experience Details
  • Agile Northants
    Founder And Host | Scrum Alliance Community Group
    Agile Northants
    Leicester, Gb
    View
  • Agile Northants
    Founder | Host
    Agile Northants Apr 2016 - Present
    Northampton, Kettering And Corby, United Kingdom
    • Founder, host and organiser of Agile Northants, bringing together a community of like-minded individuals to meet, lear and share their wealth of knowledge and experience within the software industry on all things Agile.• Providing a learning platform for 2000+ members both nationally and internationally and attracting 30-40 members monthly.• Hosted over 65+ events since 2016 and providing thought provoking talks, workshops and group reflections/discussions by internationally recognised speakers, authors and thought leaders in the field of Agile. We have welcomed Geoff Watts, Rachel Davies, Allen Kelly, Lisa Adkins, Alistair Cockburn Jon Terry, Karl Scotland, Mike Burrows and many more. • Strongly affiliated with the Scrum Alliance allowing members of the user group to earn Scrum Education Units (SEU) by attending and contributing towards Agile Northants events.• Obtained consistent sponsorship from various corporate organisations including RS Components, Barclaycard, Ten10, Agility In Mind, Travis Perkins, Dominos and the Agile Mastery Institute.• Agile Northants meet up page can be found here. https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Northants/
    View
  • Rhythmic Twist Limited
    National/International Speaker
    Rhythmic Twist Limited Oct 2015 - Present
    United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands And Kenya
    • Invited to speak at various Agile and Scrum events across the country to audiences ranging from 35-80 individuals at Agile Nottingham, Agile Sheffield, Agile MK and many more.• Invited by TCS and Three Hands in 2018 and by popular demand in 2019 to deliver a keynote talk to 150+ students (13-18 years) from various schools in Peterborough, UK during a week-long event focused on providing a work experience week on Agile mindset and ways of working to students.• Delivered a short, but powerful talk to graduating students at the Maastricht University’s Business School, Netherlands on selecting their career path motivating them to dig deeper to draw out their passions.
    View
  • Rhythmic Twist
    Seminar, Retreat And Workshop Lead Facilitator
    Rhythmic Twist Jan 2016 - Present
    United Kingdom (Doncaster, Birmingham, Leicester), Kenya (Mombasa)
    Full Day Seminar:• Facilitating full day seminars for over 50 participants on "Empowering the Self" at various locations UK wide with specifically focus on the following quote:“Our deepest fears are not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, talented and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be?” Marianne Williamson• Using a highly collaborative and interactive style, I share tried and tested mindset strategies on how to nurture, develop and empower the self by sharing thought provoking and inspirational stories, exercises, games and deep reflective discussions to encourage participants to rediscover and connect with their own personal power.Retreat:• Facilitated several immersive 3-4 day retreat with over 40 participants from worldwide locations including US, Africa, Canada and Australia• Days packed full of content from thought leaders, self development and business guru and many more.• Facilitated daily mindfulness activities bringing participants to the present moment,Half-Day Workshop: • 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - A walk through with real life practical examples of Peter Lencioni's model to 30 members of Red Cross in Mombasa, Kenya enabling the various teams to improve their team dynamics, embrace conflict and build trust in order to deliver results for the Red Cross society.
    View
  • Swift
    Agile Coach
    Swift Dec 2020 - Present
    La Hulpe, Belgium
    • Driving the implementation of the agile practices, values and principles.• Coaching 2 squads delivering software that prevents fraud, financial crime and ensure compliance.
    View
  • Proximus
    Agile Coach
    Proximus Nov 2020 - May 2021
    Brussels, Belgium
    • Coaching and transforming teams towards new ways of working at Proximus which is a leading telecommunication provider in Belgium.
    View
  • Gsk
    Scrum Master
    Gsk Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
    London, United Kingdom
    View
  • Ing
    Agile Coach - Payments
    Ing Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
    Netherlands
    • Coached teams on adapting the Agile Way of Working within a large-scale Agile transformation program involving not only software development teams, but also various management and leadership teams/functions. A variation of the SPOTIFY model acted as a reference for the Agile transformation and included the adoption of Kanban (limiting WIP, Cycle time, regular prioritisation of incoming work) • Worked closely and assisting portfolio planning using techniques such as Value Stream mapping, Story and Example mapping.• Tailored coaching approach depending on each team’s level of Agile maturity whilst on a continuous improvement journey, celebrating small successes, and continuously learning from failure.• Used my in-depth experience of team psychology, dynamics and dysfunctions to help teams see their own truth, challenges and underlying beliefs and thereby helping them draw out solutions that they own and accountable for.• Utilised various coaching tools and techniques to draw out the best in people in teams, challenging their thoughts and assisting them to see different perspectives. • Helped teams understand the value of self-organisation bringing empowerment and autonomy.• Facilitated interactive workshops of between 8 to 60 individuals whilst keeping the group focused outcomes whilst at the same time being grounded in the 12 principles of Agile.• Applied visual facilitation techniques, using visuals, pictures to keep high levels of engagement and create a shared language between different levels of the organisation.• Hosted the Agile coaching guild on a weekly basis to enable a culture of continuous learning and reflecting. The typical format of LeanCoffee & OpenSpace, and off course deep dive topics. • Identified appropriate team and organisation wide metrics that can show progress/or lack off to enable powerful face to face conversations.
    View
  • Ing
    Agile Coach - Omnichannel
    Ing Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
    Belgium
    • Coached teams on adapting the Agile Way of Working within a large-scale Agile transformation program involving not only software development teams, but also various management and leadership teams/functions.• Worked closely and assisting portfolio planning using techniques such as Value Stream mapping, Story and Example mapping.• Tailored coaching approach depending on each team’s level of Agile maturity whilst on a continuous improvement journey, celebrating small successes, and continuously learning from failure.• Used my in-depth experience of team psychology, dynamics and dysfunctions to help teams see their own truth, challenges and underlying beliefs and thereby helping them draw out solutions that they own and accountable for.• Utilised various coaching tools and techniques to draw out the best in people in teams, challenging their thoughts and assisting them to see different perspectives. • Helped teams understand the value of self-organisation bringing empowerment and autonomy.• Facilitated interactive workshops of between 8 to 60 individuals whilst keeping the group focused outcomes whilst at the same time being grounded in the 12 principles of Agile.• Applied visual facilitation techniques, using visuals, pictures to keep high levels of engagement and create a shared language between different levels of the organisation.• Hosted the Agile coaching guild on a weekly basis to enable a culture of continuous learning and reflecting. The typical format of LeanCoffee & OpenSpace, and off course deep dive topics. • Identified appropriate team and organisation wide metrics that can show progress/or lack off to enable powerful face to face conversations.
    View
  • Rs Components
    Scrummaster | Agile Coach
    Rs Components Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
    Corby, United Kingdom
    • Formed a Scrum team of 8 motivated and high performing individuals to deliver the next generation ecommerce mobile application using technology stack of HTML 5, Java 8, Apache/Tomcat 8 & Oracle.• Utilised Azure as the cloud-based platform enabling the team to own configuration management, continuous build and integration making working software accessible and visible to the product owner.• Effectively facilitated the Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up, planning, review and retrospectives. • Resolved impediments to ensure the team can deliver its commitments and escalated wider organisational impediments accordingly.• Coordinated and collaborated with other Scrum teams to ensure cross team dependencies were understood, prioritised and delivered concurrently and in a timely fashion.• Coached the team to make continuous improvements to its processes and ways of working to drive away dysfunctions and reduce waste.• Worked intimately with the product owner and wider stakeholders to ensure the product backlog was prioritised and ready for the team to refine and estimate using relative sizing/story points.• Led workshops to define the team’s vision, values & definition of done. Made shared working agreements to enable the team to perform collaboratively in a delivery focused environment.• Delivered a minimum viable product (MVP) consisting of a complete customer journey enabling users to Search and Buy over 600,000 products on mobile devices in 22 markets worldwide. • Shipped valuable increments of functionality to enhance the mobile application every 3 weeks based on analytics driven information and thereby targeting features that increase the average order value.• Organised team building activities outside a work setting to strengthen the team bond, whilst having fun.
    View
  • Khoja Leadership Forum
    Co-Organiser | Khoja Business Leaders Summit
    Khoja Leadership Forum Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
    Davos, Switzerland
    • Played a lead role in the organisation of the Khoja Business Leaders Summit held in Davos 2017 bringing together the Khoja communities finest business leaders, influencers and philanthropists. • A total of net worth $25 billion individuals gathered in an environment of collective co-operation for social investment aimed at economically developing all members of the Khoja community and indeed humanity at large.• Facilitated and led 1-2-1 interviews with panellists, speakers and others individuals to capture their ideas, ethos, drive and vision to serve the greater humankind.• Built strong personal relationships with some of the most successful leaders of the Khoja community worldwide.• More information https://www.khojaleadershipforum.org/
    View
  • The Money Shop Uk
    Agile Coach | Scrummaster
    The Money Shop Uk Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
    Nottingham, United Kingdom
    • Initiated and led an Agile transformation initiative within the IT department to drive improvements in the process to aid in delivering software using core Agile principles.• Eliminated the inherent Waterfall based seating structure by forming 4 Scrum teams, from the mix of software developers, testers and business analysts.• Improved overall communication and collaboration of the Scrum teams by co-locating them.• Facilitated workshops on Agile manifesto, Scrum 101, definition of done, effective user story writing and story point estimation using planning poker.• Configured and rolled out JIRA as a tool to manage the entire application life cycle management and provided ongoing training and support.• Coaching and supporting individuals and team alike on their Agile transformation journey using the "Inspect & Adapt" philosophy to make small and incremental changes towards improvements in delivery of working software against the teams definition of done.• Playing the role of a ScrumMaster for 2 teams by facilitating Scrum ceremonies including sprint reviews, planning and retrospectives.• Built strong rapport with DBA's, DevOps and service desk teams to bridge gaps, dependencies and be able to efficiently remove impediments for the 2 Scrum teams. • Encouraged and embedded a continuous learning & improvement culture within the department.
    View
  • The Open University
    Scrummaster
    The Open University Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
    Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
    • Pragmatically utilised Agile principles with Scrum to consistently deliver a highly valuable web based application to manage the OU's tutor student allocations globally for qualifications and courses offered by the university.• Mentored and coached 2 cross-functional Scrum teams delivering software using a range of technologies including Oracle Service Bus (Middleware), .NET 4.5 powered by Oracle 10g databases. • Driven to nurture high performance teams by applying the ‘inspect and adapt’ approach to generate insights using relevant facilitation techniques, challenging existing norms and highlighting agile anti-patterns.• Encouraged and supported the team's initiatives to improve DevOps in the areas of TDD, pair programming, build automation, continuous integration and automated testing. This allowed the teams to cut down waste, reduce code defects and improve the overall delivery process to production.• Developed several extensive information radiators highlighting key metrics, including blockers, sprint burn down, sprints velocity trends and defect counts. Thereby encouraging the ethos of openness, trust and ownership both within the team, and wider.• Headed both formal and informal sessions with other Scrum Masters to share experiences, working processes and overall best practices to bring about cross department consistency and faster adoption.• Initiated, designed and facilitated a series of planned workshops to train and coach 5 product owners and 4 project managers on the Agile tenets to assist them in their transition towards Agile. Delved deeper into Scrum fundamentals, Kanban boards, velocity, burn-down charts and other metrics. • Guided the product owner in effectively managing the entire product backlog, refining stories, prioritising high value, high risk user stories ready for the scrum team to estimate using planning poker. • Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, and guided teams towards adherence to Scrum practices.
    View
  • Mastercard
    Scrummaster
    Mastercard Jun 2012 - Feb 2014
    Peterborough, United Kingdom
    • Delivered software for 4 major integrated sub systems running 24/7 operations worldwide using MasterCard’s Integrated Processing Services for the company’s flagship Multi-Currency Passport product.• Servant Leader of 2 cross-functional Scrum teams working in various technologies including Java, Oracle 10g and .NET 4.0, SQL Server 2010. • Coached and mentored individuals and teams alike on Scrum principles, relative sizing using story points, Planning Poker and other best practice techniques widely used. • Adopted and pioneered the onshore-offshore development model with 2 teams based in Bangalore with MasterCard’s offshore partner, Dell Services, India.• Facilitated daily Scrum stand ups, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective for all teams tracking progress using burn down and velocity charts. • Identified and removed technical and organisational impediments to ensure sprint goals are achieved.• Introduced the concepts of relative sizing to improve the estimation process to all teams and encouraged the practice by making it fun using planning poker and t-shirt sizing.• Developed a strong business case, detailing the need and benefits of collocated teams. Exquisitely presented, it was approved within days. Once in place, the benefits of collocation were immediate as it promoted high levels of face to face communication thereby improving overall productivity. • Extensively utilised the Atlassian Jira/Greenhopper suite to manage and groom the product/sprint backlogs working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritise high value user stories.• Built an extensive team Dashboard to radiate up to date Scrum team metrics to encourage the ethos of ownership, trust and openness.• Actively led Scrum of Scrums twice a week to ensure high levels of face to face communications and overall cohesion between team deliveries and dependencies.
    View
  • Smart Human Logistics Ltd
    Software Development Manager
    Smart Human Logistics Ltd Feb 2009 - Jun 2012
    Stevenage, United Kingdom
    • Managing a team of 5 senior software programmers in a cross functional team developing a C# based enterprise web application (eHL) on the .NET 4 Framework. • The software fully rolled out in over 15 NHS Trusts UK wide and global enterprises including Sainsbury’s, Boots and Jaguar, delivering annual cost savings in excess of £100,000 by generating optimised rosters, integrating hardware devices to enhance time attendance recording and absence management. • Successfully headed an Agile transformation moving from the waterfall methodology to adopt Scrum by addressing the cultural change and mental shift required to instil a new way of working. • Embedded the Agile philosophy consistently over time to enhance team cohesion, communication and overall self-organisation. • Established clear communication channels with both stakeholders and the development teams ensuring high cohesion to deliver projects on schedule achieving business objectives.• Deployed and automated the build and release process by customising and adopting a continuous integration server using open source Cruise Control .NET. • Led several Web Services based projects to integrate eHL with third parties software vendors including SkillStream, BSMS and the NHS Electronic Staff Record enhancing the products offering and functionality.
  • Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors)
    Software Development Manager
    Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors) Feb 2006 - Jun 2008
    Doncaster, United Kingdom
    • Managed a team of 3 software developers, developing a Delphi / C# based Client Server application Bank Staff Management System (BSMS) used in over 100 NHS trusts in UK.• Defined the product roadmap aligned with the business strategy to meet customer demands ensuring quality product releases.• Integrated BSMS with third party workforce management and rostering applications using Web Services to create a unique solution for NHS trusts and a unique market position for the company.• Introduced rigorous source code control using Visual SourceSafe to achieve effective concurrent development, branching, merging and release tagging.
  • Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors)
    Implementation Manager
    Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors) Mar 2005 - Feb 2006
    Doncaster, United Kingdom
    • Key decision maker in procuring and sourcing Sage Line 500; an organisation wide accounting and order management system in conjunction with other stakeholders.• Successfully configured, customised and rolled out the software to new and improved business processes bringing about efficiencies in month end accounts, speed of data entry and accuracy.• Connected the new hardware to the existing LAN to create a secure MPLS network using state of the art Cisco equipment spanning the national depots UK wide.• Developed over 20 key reports aiding in sales and purchase orders analysis using Crystal Reports 10.• Trained all depot staff in adopting the new system helping to effectively manage the change introduced.
  • Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors)
    Web Developer
    Rema Tip Top Industry Uk Limited (Ace Conveyors) Aug 2003 - Mar 2005
    Doncaster, United Kingdom
    • Designed and developed a web based Conveyor Management System (AceCMS) in PHP and MySQL.• The system allows engineers to remotely input and analyse conveyor related information allowing for proactive maintenance of conveyor equipment at customer sites such a quarries and factories. • Developed remote condition monitoring on conveyor systems and equipment to minimise production downtime and saving over £20,000/hour in lost production.

Muhammad Meghji Skills

Scrum Agile Methodologies Software Development Project Management .net Integration Certified Scrum Master Csm Web Services Agile Project Management Business Analysis Xml Microsoft Sql Server Change Management Scrum Coaching Certified Scrum Management It Management Enterprise Software Continuous Integration Testing Visual Studio Visio Soap Jira Workshop Facilitation Planning Poker Atlassian Jira Agile Transformations Windows Tfs Stakeholder Management Oracle Warehouse Builder Vss User Stories Oracle Service Bus Atlassian Bamboo Atlassian Greenhopper Application Lifecycle Management Ms Office Suite Confluence Subversion Soapui Restful Webservices Cruisecontrol Team Foundation Server

Muhammad Meghji Education Details

Frequently Asked Questions about Muhammad Meghji

What company does Muhammad Meghji work for?

Muhammad Meghji works for Agile Northants

What is Muhammad Meghji's role at the current company?

Muhammad Meghji's current role is Founder and Host | Scrum Alliance Community Group.

What is Muhammad Meghji's email address?

Muhammad Meghji's email address is ma****@****ail.com

What schools did Muhammad Meghji attend?

Muhammad Meghji attended Sheffield Hallam University, University Of Waterloo, Agakhan Academy.

What are some of Muhammad Meghji's interests?

Muhammad Meghji has interest in Football, Children, Badminton, Education, Meditation, Digital Photography.

What skills is Muhammad Meghji known for?

Muhammad Meghji has skills like Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Project Management, .net, Integration, Certified Scrum Master Csm, Web Services, Agile Project Management, Business Analysis, Xml, Microsoft Sql Server.

Not the Muhammad Meghji you were looking for?

View similar profiles

Free Chrome Extension

Find emails, phones & company data instantly

Find verified emails from LinkedIn profiles
Get direct phone numbers & mobile contacts
Access company data & employee information
Works directly on LinkedIn - no copy/paste needed
Get Chrome Extension - Free

Aero Online

Your AI prospecting assistant

Download 750 million emails and 100 million phone numbers

Access emails and phone numbers of over 750 million business users. Instantly download verified profiles using 20+ filters, including location, job title, company, function, and industry.