KaiRise

In my role as a Partner at KaiRise, I spearheaded the development of the industry's first on-demand ICAgile accredited course, transforming the way agile training is delivered. By prioritizing flexibility and speed, I successfully increased course enrollment and client satisfaction, making agile training more accessible than ever before.

Partner

Accenture

Working across all Federal accounts and capabilities at AFS’ San Antonio location, promote awareness and adoption of Lean-Agile values, principles, processes and technical practices. Consult with clients and account teams on effective patterns for transformation and high-quality delivery. Provide thought leadership to enable accounts to grow their Lean-Agile practice. Provide sales and BD support at the account, sector and portfolio level. 

Primary focus falls into four key areas:

Delivery Support - Jumpstart new Agile projects by helping client teams understand Agile, onboard key roles, execute Sprint Zero. Work closely with project leadership to assess organizational impediments, measure flow and develop strategies for continuously improving. 

Thought Leadership - Collaborate with the AFS Agile Institute, Accenture LLP,  and the industry as a whole to promote local adoption of our corporate capabilities, and industry best practices. 

Education - Provide classroom training to project teams and clients in our ICAgile accredited courses and the Scaled Agile (SAFe) curriculum. 

Sales Enablement - Play an active role in supporting business development and proposal efforts for Agile opportunities across all accounts.

Agile Consultant

Compassion International

As a servant-leader, coach the global solutions engineering teams (currently 11 agile teams) to manage the life cycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products primarily using Lean and Agile SDLC practices – Scrum, KanBan, XP, ScrumBan, SAFe.  

Continuously develop a work environment promoting continual improvement and learning, free from fear of failure, while supporting mistakes that encourage continual learning.  Employ a Lean leadership style focusing on developing team members’ skills. 
Serve as an Agile Coach and transformation agent as the ministry transforms to a new way of thinking, applying Lean Agile principles to all levels of work.  Create teams that are jointly responsible for success, solving problems together in ways that develop people’s capabilities and increases their engagement and commitment, focusing on respect for people.

Develop and implement global strategy for application software design and development. Ensure staffing and development in function to provide technical and strategic expertise in the creation of global inter-related system design for existing architecture or new deployments.  Direct the development of specifications and requirements to integrate global applications.  Serve as catalyst and expert leader, driving the development and implementation of new standards in software development.

Provide strategic direction in gathering requirements and development specifications to design and integrate into applications.  Direct application software design and development services and technical leadership for existing architecture or new deployments. Create an environment that attracts and develops skilled professional staff engaged in coding, testing, implementing, and maintaining large software applications.

Sr. Director - Solutions Engineering

Direct technology delivery focused on enterprise services (Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus)  enterprise information management (the Enterprise Data Warehouse) and enterprise database management (MSSQL DBMS).
Direct enterprise information management solutions, division staff and resources. 
Direct solutions delivery, process and policy assurance, budgeting and financial management, resource planning, management reporting and the attainment of cross-organizational objectives and service levels. Collaborate with IT management teams, key decision-makers and global stakeholders to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support cost-effective, strategically - aligned enterprise data management solutions for all aspects of the global organization.
As Strategic Business Partner, and Agile Coach, participate in the development and execution of strategies to drive agile adoption throughout the organization. Examples include defining an Agile maturity model, establishing best practices, teaching Agile related classes and guiding the Managing Directors, Product Managers and project leads in the establishment of Agile practices.

Director - Enterprise Technology, SBP

Douglas County

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Elections office in a medium-sized County, providing direct supervision, coordination, and technical guidance to staff, maintaining a high level of morale, ensuring service excellence and increasing team productivity. Supported advanced technical needs of office staff, as well as Directors and Elected Officials both inside and outside of Douglas County, including hardware/software support, project management, business analysis, and vendor relations.   Utilized sophisticated technology skills to streamline processes and reduce overhead by implementing methodologies to improve support, manage customer expectations, and build strong cross-agency relationships. Recognized leader in the State by the Colorado Department of State (CDOS) with regards to voting systems technology and statewide voter registration database management.

Senior Product Manager

Senior System Analyst

Reformed PMP turned Agile delivery expert | Helping you earn more 💵 | Agile certification pays - get yours today at your own pace. KaiRise.com

Instructor-led agile training is one of the worst ways to up-skill your workforce. There are 3 gigantic problems with old-school, instructor led training.

🚫 It pulls workers away from their daily jobs to take training
🚫 It takes forever to schedule, coordinate and run
🚫 It doesn’t scale

◾️What I do

I'm a partner at KaiRise, with three decades of experience helping enterprises implement agility. We've cracked the code on how to train your staff in a way that actually generates results.

◾️How We Help?

I’ve distilled what I’ve learned into the fastest most effective way to earn the ICAgile Certified Professional Certification. We created the world’s first on-demand ICAgile accredited course.

It’s used at enterprises around the world to transform the learning experience, while stretching budget dollars and…

👉Is Available 24/7
👉Is Trusted & Certified 
👉Has Bite-sized learning for seamless integration into daily tasks
👉Has zero death by powerpoint or forgetting everything you’ve just learned
👉Will certify your workforce in half the time of regular training

◾️Expected Results

✅ 40% reduction in training costs
✅ 30% increase in the volume of certifications issued
✅ 50% reduction in the time to complete training
✅ 72 Net Promoter Score (excellent)

◾️Don't just take my word for it

“Absolutely loved the content, format, and instruction style of this course. The self-pacing was great for my learning style. Would recommend it to practically anyone!”
Stella Griffith - Sr. Business Analyst at Fidelity Investments

“Great Course and Engaging Style. From the bite-sized learning modules to the reinforcement through quizzes and interactive activities, this course is a great intro to the world of Agile.”
Ian Santo Domingo - Principal & Managing Director at Vault Consulting

“I am a Certified ScrumMaster, but I truly believe this course has set me up for broader organizational success. I can't say enough great things about Agile Foundations!”
Lindsey Parker - Strategic Projects Coordinator at Fellowship of Christian Athletes

And many more at www.KaiRise.com

◾️My Background

With three decades of hands-on experience, completed 16 agile certifications, and having trained thousands, I've garnered over 10,000 followers and earned recognition as a top voice in the Agile Community by LinkedIn. My journey has taken me through diverse landscapes, from startups and nonprofits to global corporations and government agencies.

◾️Contact

Ready to change your enterprise training experience? Send me a LinkedIn DM and let's explore if we're a fit. 

💻www.KaiRise.com

Mike Lyons

Sole Trader

Small sole trader business offering awesome training, mentoring and coaching to anyone that is open to learn what agile is really about.  I focus on helping my customers recognise bad agile and how to succeed.

Professional Scrum Trainer, Sole Trader

Scrum.org

► What is Scrum?
https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum

► What is your training style?
Engaging participants in conversations and allowing them to share. No boring lectures or death by powerpoint

► Do you run private courses?
Yes, I can run in-house training for your teams at very good rates. Contact me to chat about different options.

► This is what Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum) said about me?
Brett is a member of the Scrum.org community of trainers and consultants. To become a member, he had to prove his knowledge of agile practices, Scrum, software development, and agile project management. He also had to demonstrate deep experience using this knowledge to help others create valuable software solutions. Brett demonstrates Scrum values daily, showing courage, commitment, openness, focus, and respect for others. It will be a lucky organization that works with Brett. 
Ken Schwaber, CEO, Scrum.org; and Scrum co-creator - November 26, 2013 

► Virtual or Classroom?
It depends.   The feedback I get is that virtual training spread over a few days is more effective and preferred and my preference too.  It is cheaper too.

Professional Scrum Trainer

Scrum On

Scrum On helps companies succeed in adopting agile.  Our speciality is working with medium to large companies that build complex products.   

➤ What do we do?
Using our own 7-step Dumb Scrum strategy, we introduce various agile practices into your company. We take a two-pronged bottom-up (team) and top-down (management) approach that guarantees success.

➤ What makes us different?
Most agile coaches jump in and work with development teams only and quickly run into organisational challenges.  Adopting an agile method is a massive change to an organisation.  Success depends heavily on having a bold vision and a robust strategy to reach that vision.  Business leadership or agile leadership is vital.  Our 7-step Dumb Scrum strategy targets leaders and helps them become effective agile leaders.

Professional Scrum Trainer, Business Owner

Australian Football League

•	Deliver superior coaching and introduce agile practices to the AFL Media development teams responsible for the AFL website and club web sites.  
•	Train, mentor, and motivate Product Owners on release planning, backlog management, requirement authoring and maximizing value; past efforts saw development teams introduced to Scrum and other agile practices to support to process change.  
•	Orchestrate meetings such as Product Council with external stakeholders, Sprint Planning, Reviews and Retrospectives.
•	Spearhead release planning; establish thinking in product ‘value’.  
•	Head conflict resolution and deescalate any worker grievances.
•	Promote continuous improvement culture.  
•	Partner with leadership in understanding agile practices and values.  
•	Lead measurement and certify progress of agile transformation.  
•	Integrate new development practices to the teams, including BDD, pair programming, ALM tooling, better development environments.  
•	Minimize cycle time from 16 days to 1.65 days.

Agile Coach

Readify

•	Appointed as a senior consultant initially, with a leading Microsoft Solution Provider that has many accolades.  
•	Promoted to a principal consultant, a very senior position in 2011.  
•	Provided expert consultative advising at different client sites and offering solutions on Microsoft Technologies.  
•	Liaised with customer relationship management, pre-sales and solution designs for projects; 60% of function is allocated to practical work allowing the opportunity to garner real world experience when recommending solutions.
•	Directed all Scrum Training as Scrum Master; coached teams and other Scrum Master, Consulting on agile practices.  
•	Introduced Application Lifecycle Management and practices to better support high performance teams.

Principal Consultant

No Inc Digital Consulting

•	Hired as a contract consultant to various NID clients; applied skills by guiding clients through technology choices to bolster process effectiveness.
•	Assisted clients in setting up standards and lifecycles for the development teams.  
•	Served as primary point of contact for several development teams and worked with executives and stakeholders.  
•	Employed expertise in utilizing SharePoint, BizTalk, C#, CRM.
•	Architected and designed a large enterprise solution for a bureau in the property industry.  
•	Systemized processes for hundreds of users with high volumes of transactions.  
•	Carried out myriad roles including business analysis, team lead, project management, design, architecture, mentoring.

System Architect

Bytes People Solutions

•	Joined Bytes as a Microsoft Certified Trainer presenting technical and high level courses on Microsoft products; courses focused on SharePoint development, BizTalk, SQL Server, Advanced C# and .NET and more. 
•	Optimized knowledge on bleeding edge technologies that were emerging at the time.  
•	Presented many relevant and engaging courses on behalf of Microsoft South Africa.

Senior System Instructor

Innergize Coaching (Pty) Ltd

•	Launched business presenting workshops and seminars to the corporate environment dealing with solutions to common business problems such as Stress Management, Productivity and corporate flexibility (now agility).  
•	Controlled cash flow portion of the business up by consulting on SQL, BizTalk, SOA, C#.

Consultant \ Architect \ Coach

Galencia (Pty) Ltd

•	Contracted architect to design and lead a development team to build as product in the freight industry.  
•	Piloted business analysis, technical analysis, requirement gathering and system architecture.  
•	Collaborated with external partners and government departments.  
•	Executed all functions of this senior position to design, develop, manage and deploy a new system.

Architect

AST: Client Telkom SA (Ltd)

•	Selected as a member of the Enterprise Application Integration Team (EAI) within Telkom to assist with the integration of Telkom SA systems.  
•	Defined system integration through analytics; carried out development requirement when recourses were scarce. 
•	Charted successful path for the Telkom EAI team; followed a strong development life cycle with much documentation and analysis prior to development.

Consultant \ Architect

➤ Looking for my resume?➤ 
Just so you know, this is not my resume.  Please reach out to me if you would like it.

➤ Is agile and Scrum failing you?➤ 
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If you are facing some of these challenges:
▸Not sure where to start
▸Finding Agile frustrating and not meeting your expectations
▸It is not going too well
▸Same old boring routine and not growing
▸Not sure how to be a better Agile Leader, Scrum Master or Product Owner 
▸Agile and Scrum is not much better than it was before
▸Applying Scrum in a waterfall way
▸Low leadership support

These are what we call Zombie Scrum, and many companies experience one or more of these challenges. Adopting Scrum is a large organisational change and needs to a strategy.  I mentor agile leaders and Scrum Masters using a proven 7 sage strategy that enables success.

Connect and ask me how the strategy could help you.

➤ New to Scrum?
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Learn Scrum the right way as initially intended by co-creator Ken Schwaber.  You can find all https://www.scrum.org/courses.

Connect about courses or career path questions.

➤ You are a Scrum Master
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Being a Scrum Master is much more than a 2-day course and a simple assessment. I train, coach and mentor Scrum Masters with our Elite Scrum Coach program.  This program is for may be for you if you want to stand out and make a difference.

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Connect and ask me for our free 
"What to do to become an Elite Scrum Coach" guide.
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➤ Want to know more?
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☎ +61 (0) 4 3585 9444 
✉ brett@scrum-on.com.au

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