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Novi Sad, Rs

Belgrade, Serbia

Novi Sad, Serbia

Novi Sad, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Novi Sad, Serbia

Belgrade

Responsible to help eFront with Agile transition, which includes: initial Agile assessment; in-house Agile trainings; creating impediments backlog regarding Agile transition; establishing Scrum framework by performing a role of Scrum Master in 6 Squads and coaching new Scrum Masters; using Scrum framework and Kanban to put Agile values and principles into practice; evaluation of technical practices and tools; scaling up Scrum using LESS framework.

Belgrade, Serbia

- Provide Advanced Agile trainings regarding Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, User stories- Facilitate different Agile meetups, workshops- Speak at Agile conferences- Provide Agile coaching and mentoring

Belgrade, Niš, Serbia

Responsible to provide consultancy regarding Agile and Lean on non IT projects, which includes: help Philip Morris to easily adapt to change coming from an industry or marketplace and to respond quickly to new information; be catalyst and promote fast forward thinking and business Agility (optimize the process): define business hypothesis and generate an idea, validate and test that the ideas is good one, develop the idea to the needs of customers.

Belgrade, Serbia

Responsible to help United Cloud with Agile transition and Agile scaling, which includes: initial Agile assessment; in-house Agile trainings; creating impediments backlog regarding Agile transition; establishing Scrum framework by performing a role of Scrum Master in 2 Scrum teams, coaching new SMs and consultancy to existing Scrum teams; using Scrum framework to put Agile values and principles into practice; evaluation of technical practices and tools; scaling up Scrum using SoS.Achievements:- Completed Agile assessment with list of impediments regarding Agile transition. - Created community of practices for Scrum Masters and Product owners.- Working with United Cloud management to address main challenges regarding quality, scaling, requirements, collaboration, communication, product management and to ensure that Agile principles and values are understood and enacted by teams. - Introducing quarterly release planning (based on SAFe RPE) because Scrum teams developed integrated solution, with a strong need for careful alignment, collaboration and managing dependencies between teams.- Performing Agile trainings for about 50 people - 5 days training includes: Agile intro, scrum framework, user stories, estimating and planning, engineering practices.- Actively working as a Scrum Master for 2 teams to coach development teams how to self-organize, become cross-functional and to help them to deliver great products, to coach and teach Product owners how to manage product backlog, maximize product value and optimize work of development team, to facilitate Agile transition within organization.- Coach and mentor other Scrum Masters and people managers- Help other departments to support IT and become Agile

Belgrade

Responsible to help Telenor with Agile transition, which included: initial Agile assessment; in-house Agile trainings; creating impediments backlog regarding Agile transition; establishing Scrum framework by performing a role of Scrum Master in 2 Scrum teams, coaching new SMs and providing consultancy to existing Scrum teams; creating a plan for further roll out of Scrum; evaluation of technical practices, tools; scaling up Scrum using Scrum of Scrums and SAFe; defining Agile model for Telenor.Achievements:- Completed Agile assessment with list of impediments regarding Agile transition. - Worked with Telenor management to address main challenges regarding quality, scaling, requirements, product management and to embed Agile mindset, values and principles. - Helped development teams to use Scrum properly, business to engage closely with development and company to flat very hierarchical organization- Created community of practices for SMs & POs.- Introduced quarterly release planning because Scrum teams developed integrated solution, with a strong need for careful alignment, collaboration and managing dependencies between teams.- Because Scrum teams delivered one integrated solution, established team of POs with Chief PO leading and being mainly focus on strategy, customers and stakeholders. - Improved transparency by using Scrum boards representing teams' sprint backlogs and program board representing risks, objectives and dependencies between Scrum teams. - Beside standard Scrum event, established Scrum of scrums to discuss Scrum teams’ progress, resolve dependencies between Scrum teams and address impediments.- Coached POs how to define requirements using INVEST User stories, prioritize using WSJF, manage product backlog to deliver faster 20% of features with 80% of value, gain feedback. - Completed Agile trainings for about 200 people. 4 days training included: Agile intro, scrum framework, user stories, estimating and planning, engineering practices.

Novi Sad, Serbia

Responsible for Enterprise Agile transformation and scaling up Agile within Schneider DMS; Responsible for roll out and deployment of Agile frameworks (SCRUM, KanBan, SAFe), Agile practices and techniques. Leads, trains and coaches the organization (employees, management) in understanding, enacting and adopting Scrum. Defines, implements, establishes, monitors and maintains SDLC (Software Development lifecycle), development processes and procedures and release management in accordance with Agile.Achievements:- Successfully led Agile transformation of Schneider DMS R&D office by: ○ defining/implementing transition model from waterfall to Agile within R&D (600 engineers) ○ reorganising component development teams into 50 SCRUM E2E, cross functional teams ○ transferring company’s annual SW release strategy to the quarterly releases with significantly improved quality, milestone achievements and customer satisfaction. ○ continuously promoting 'continuous improvement’ culture and collective ownership ○ identifying and instantiating 50 Scrum Masters (SMs) and 40 Product Owners (POs). ○ Agile scaling using SAFe- Trained/coached POs how to maximize value of the product and optimize value of team’s work by managing product backlog; using User stories, User story mapping; prioritizing with WSJF.- Trained/coached SMs how to increase the effectiveness of Scrum in company and ensure that the Scrum teams are self-organized, cross-functional, fully functional and productive.- 3x increased teams’ productivity by helping teams with self-organization & cross-functionality- Improved Quality of software by increasing #Unit tests by 3500%, reducing #defects by 45%, reducing #regressions by 33% and applying TDD, BDD, CI, CD, Refactoring, PairProgramming- Rolled out use of CI for 50 SCRUM teams with 86% successful CI cycles.

Knutsford, United Kingdom

Responsible for Enterprise Agile transformation and scaling up Agile within Barclays. Led and drove delivery of high impact, customer-centric Programs (mobile app and infrastructure) using Agile. Responsible for coaching and organising different development, business and infrastructure teams how to use different SCRUM and KanBan, to deliver product iteratively/incrementally with built in quality. Achievements:- Appointed to bring back on track and deliver high impact project (“Barclays Mobile Banking – Mobile two factor authentication”) based on in-house solution, after 3rd party failed to deliver the same project for 9 months. Successfully delivered project in June 2012 (after 3 months). The project was created in response to one of the top 5 Barclay’s customer complains.- Structured, organized and coached “Collection website” Barclaycard project team how to use Agile practices. Team successfully delivered 4 months long project in Q4 2011 to the budget and within original cost. The goal of this project was to deliver a new collections website via an externally hosted application, which enables customers to resolve their debt online.- Successfully led Agile transformation of Barclaycard Technology office by: ○ creating and applying transition model from Waterfall to Agile ○ setting up and upskilling Feature and Components team ○ fearlessly challenging organisational constraints that impede rapid value delivery ○ continuously promoted and encouraged 'commitment culture'- Trained and coached business teams how to use user centred design, write/apply User stories, create funnel of requirements as continuous flow with key maturing stages before they reach the development sprint, and how to prioritise requirements by using “MoSCoW” method.- Coached development teams how to apply different Agile Engineering practices (TDD, ATDD, BDD, Continuous Integration) to be more effective and build in quality during development.

Blackburn, United Kingdom

Single point of contact into Software Project for all aspects of the Programme. Escalation to the Programme of the risks, issues, exceptions and dependencies between functions affecting the performance of the Programme. Technical design lead for technical implementation of the Programme. Primary interface to all technical suppliers. Responsible for project initiation; feasibility study; project estimation, scheduling and project execution (by using Agile Project Management with Scrum); quality planning; risk analysis and risk management; localisation; reporting project status; change control.Achievements:- Delivered 3 Projects (ActivEngage v1.1, Promethean ActivOffice v1.0 and ActivInspire v1.5) on time, to quality and within budget (Budget of £0.3M, £0.6M and £1.1M respectively), based on Windows/Max/Linux platforms.- Successfully rolled out use of User Stories regarding Functional Requirements. Continuously promoted and encouraged 'commitment culture' at the organisation.- Led 2 Teams (2 X 7 people) as Scrum Master by enforcing rules of Scrum and maximizing its benefits. Ensured that by the end of every Sprint (iteration) only features, which had been “DONE” (integrated, tested, baselined), were allowed to be demonstrated and released.- Improved defect fixing rate by 20% and reduced number of regression by 22.5% compared to previous projects.- Successfully managed relationship with a major supplier, who was responsible for localisation and internationalisation of the products.- Coached Product Managers how to write/apply User Stories and how to prioritise requirements by using “MoSCoW” method, “Relative Weighting” approach and “Kano” model. - Was continuous driving force behind the rollout of Test Driven Development – TDD and Continuous Integration.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Agile Project Management with Scrum: Responsible for the Scrum process, its correct implementation by enforcing rules of Scrum and the maximization of its benefits.Achievements:- Key contributor to the rollout of Agile Project management with Scrum.- Successfully adapted Scrum to SonyEricsson organisation and internal processes.- Led 3 Teams of 18 people through successful transition from Teams that are managed to Teams that manage and self organize themselves.- Coached Teams to use the inspection, adaptation and visibility aspects of Scrum to guide their work to the required quality, to reflect on how to become more effective, and tune and adjust their behaviour accordingly.- Successfully scaled Project using Scrum. Ensured that the Scrum practices were followed by team and that by the end of every Sprint (iteration) only features, which had code complete (integrated, tested, baselined) were allowed to be demonstrated.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Appointed to bring back on track 2 of the most important and complex applications of the 2009 SonyEricsson smartphone family (Multimedia:Cyber-shot® and Multimedia:Walkman®). Responsible for day-to-day management of the project, end-stage assessment, risk assessment, risk management, monitoring of quality activities, project planning, estimation and scheduling.Achievements:- Developed, maintained and drove the project plan by using Critical Chain covering all activities from pre-study to end of project execution for smartphones (Symbian/Series60).- Achieved on-time deliveries for 55 features and quality in line with project targets for Alpha and Beta. Beta stage product was at comparable quality to existing shipping products.- Played the pivotal role in continuous development process improvement.- Successfully managed teams of 52 people including team leaders, architects, developers, testers, UI designers and analysts in 4 locations worldwide (UK, Sweden, China, Japan). (Budget of £3.1M)

Warrington, United Kingdom

Full SW lifecycle management: project initiation, organisation set-up, feasibility study, project planning, estimation and scheduling, project execution and maintenance. Responsible for requirement analysis, day-to-day management of the project, end-stage assessment, monitoring of the progress, quality planning, riskanalysis and risk management.Achievements:- Key contributor to the rollout of CriticalChain Planning Project management at SonyEricsson.- Completed challenging risk assessment and risk management. - Delivered 27 features of new TSY and Telephony platform 2 weeks before project targets for Final SW. Reduced number of reported problem reports by 27.5% compared to previous projects.- Successfully managed 44-strong team of developers, testers, UI designers, team leaders, analysts and architects in 2 locations worldwide (UK, Sweden) (Project budget of £2.6 M).- Responsible for recruitment of 10 developers, this included interview and testing of C++ and OO knowledge.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Led a team of five senior developers to successfully complete part of the application software for the SonyEricsson smart phones P1/W960 (including Call Control, Call Log, PIM, Speed Dial, Bluetooth based on the Symbian/UIQ platform).Achievements:- Established and led a “Tiger Team” of 8 software experts in 3 locations worldwide (UK, Sweden, USA) and resolved Video Telephony integration crisis. This was critical to the successful deployment of the smartphone to the market.- Key contributor to the rollout of Test Driven Development.- Produced and maintained team plan using Microsoft Project for development and delivery of work packages.- Scheduled quality reviews and ensured that quality assurance process was applied to work package deliveries.

Warrington, United Kingdom

- UML design/C++ development of applications for smartphones (Symbian/UIQ).- Developed testing strategies, test harnesses in C++, performed code reviews.- Technical Leader, provided technical expertise and consultancy.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Performed system/integration/regression testing of interfaces between “Sx3- iWorld” applications for Revenues & Benefits and surrounding credits systems.- Analysed and produced detailed test specs and test scripts from system req. and technical design documents. Ran automated tests (WinRunner).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- UML design and C++ development of embedded software for mobile test equipment (VxWorks).- Developed testing strategies, test harnesses, logging systems for test set data in C++.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Performed “On-Line Service request” FrontEnd testing for Internet banking solution.- Developed and executed SQL test scripts. Performed testing of mainframe using test system interfaces (WinExcel, EDS). Ran automated/manual tests (ASTRA).

Novi Sad, Serbia

- UML design and VisualC++ development of different Video/Audio codec algorithms (Neural Networks, WindowsNT platform), "SURE-STREAM" technology for better video streaming.- Developed testing strategies and test harnesses in C/C++.