Doodle

Agile Team Lead for one of the Product teams and Agile Coach for the Principals team @Doodle 

After 3 months:

- Delivery speed doubled (Cycle time decreased by ~50%)
- Raised the number of items delivered by more than half (Throughput raised by ~60%)
- Achieved a healthy flow (WIP Average age reduced 10x -> from ~30 days to ~3 days)
- Setting SMART development goals for each team member with regular follow-ups & support
- Implementing an advanced User story map for visualizing the big picture and connects thus enabling the thinnest and most valuable slice to be delivered (teaching this with other teams as well)
- Creating outcome-oriented team improvement strategy and improvement board
- Laser-focusing value delivery to deliver business & customer value faster (~70% of the scope cut, ~6 months earlier delivery)
- Improving the efficiency of team meetings and making them shorter

After 6 months: 

- Delivery speed more than tripled (Median cycle time decreased 3.5 times -> from ~11 days to ~3 days)
- Number of items delivered almost doubled (Throughput rate raised ~100%)
- Key capabilities being delivered with high quality and weeks ahead of schedule
- Introducing Monte Carlo forecasting techniques based on bottlenecks with >85% of confidence,  modeled team capacity, and work distribution
- Lowering E2E bottlenecks by 70-80% through mapping and managing the whole value flow
- Sharing with other Agile leads through workshops on how to set, read and improve all flow metrics and how to approach forecasting
- Doing cross-team extreme slicing workshop "Elephant carpaccio" enabling teams to deliver thinnest value slices as fast as possible
- Introducing the Executive dashboard metrics (Nave) into practice
- Event-storming sessions started
- Organizing and facilitating Product Pre-Mortem session on the company level
- Great managing capabilities (100/100 score on manager-NPS; ~80 is the average industry standard)
- Done over 100 improvement actions w/ the team

Agile Team Lead & Delivery Manager

ProdGoal

One of the co-owners of ProdGoal.com, a free Agile & Kanban product and project management tool. 

My main role was the Product manager, but since this is a startup I also worked as a Marketing manager and the Product designer. 

I have conducted numerous interviews, created product and marketing strategy and designed the whole app.

The product is in the deprecation stage.

Co-Owner, Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Product Designer

codecentric Serbia

Through Codecentric and ProductDock, working at eBay, Adevinta, Kerberos, and the Nordmann group with multiple cross-functional teams, managers, and leadership

Coaching teams on high performance and collaboration which is leading teams and org to:

    -  Metrics-driven experimental approach
    -  Reduced Lead and Cycle times of items and bugs (3-10x in 3 months in multiple teams; 15-18x in 18 months; Cycle times 1-2 days)
    -  Rising throughput (50-300% in 3 months in multiple teams; 500-1000% in 18 months; 60-80 items per month)
    -  Reducing the # of bugs and days spent on solving them (50-1000% in 3 months in multiple teams; time lowered to 1-5 days per team spent quarterly on solving bugs in 18 months)

    -  Implementing Zero bug policy 
    -  Raising team happiness 
    -  Using probabilistic Forecasting methods (Monte Carlo simulations) 

Sharing and scaling these initiatives through multiple companies across the globe (Germany, Australia, Spain, UK, Italy)

Supporting the organization in moving the focus from outputs to outcomes

    -  Supporting OKR implementation and outcome-based goal management
    -  Supporting Problem mapping, doing Event-storming and Domain mapping to achieve full ownership, domain understanding, and transparency
    -  Doing User Story Mapping on the team level, unit level, and initiative level
    -  Coaching teams on Product development and Product discovery

Raising the quality of meetings 

    - Overall meetings satisfaction 4.46 / 5 in three months and keeping them on 4.57 / 5 even after 9 months for ~20 meetings in total

- Driving the quarterly portfolio planning process of the unit (7 teams) using Story mapping at scale for scope and dependency discovery and prioritization
- Using probabilistic Forecasting methods (Monte Carlo simulations) for capacity planning, predictable delivery and continuous forecasting
- Setting up a metrics-driven process all throughout the organization for managing efficiency and quality

Agile Coach

eBay

Through Codecentric, working within eBay Classifieds Motors Vertical with multiple product teams and managers

Coaching teams on high performance and collaboration which is leading teams and org to:

    -  Metrics-driven experimental approach
    -  Reduced Lead and Cycle times of items and bugs (3-10x in 3 months in multiple teams; 15-18x in 18 months; Cycle times 1-2 days)
    -  Rising throughput (50-300% in 3 months in multiple teams; 500-1000% in 18 months; 60-80 items per month)
    -  Reducing the # of bugs and days spent on solving them (50-1000% in 3 months in multiple teams; time lowered to 1-5 days per team spent quarterly on solving bugs in 18 months)

    -  Implementing Zero bug policy 
    -  Raising team happiness 
    -  Using probabilistic Forecasting methods (Monte Carlo simulations) 

Sharing and scaling these initiatives through multiple companies across globe (Germany, Australia, Spain, UK, Italy)

Supporting the organization in moving the focus from outputs to outcomes

    -  Supporting OKR implementation and outcome based goal management
    -  Supporting Problem mapping, doing Event-storming and Domain mapping
    -  Doing User Story Mapping on team level, unit level and initiative level
    -  Coaching teams on Product development and Product discovery

Raising the quality of meetings 

    - Overall meetings satisfaction 4.46 / 5 in three months and keeping them on 4.57 / 5 even after 9 months for ~20 meetings in total

ActiveCollab

• Recruiting, teaching and coaching new Scrum Masters.
• Scrum Master / Coach for one of the development teams of ActiveCollab (also setting-up new teams).
• Constantly trying to improve the relations and processes inside the team and company.
• Started with Scrum as a base framework but moved it incrementally towards XP and Lean Startup.
• Applying Lean principles throughout the whole process. 
• Team Happiness gradually raised from 7.4/10 to 9.8/10 through many stormings and normings 
• Velocity raised more than 70% on average in the first three months; after 11 months we started using NoEstimates and measuring cycle time (<1 day is our average) and raised the number of delivered items 30% more. After implementing radical slicing, throughput raised to 20-25 items in 2-week iterations.    
• Using One-piece flow approach to development, together with Mob and Pair programming when needed.
• Occasionally using various Management 3.0 practices to enhance changes.
• Designed and implemented with a fellow colleague a more Agile interview process for hiring new developers and Scrum Masters.
• Resolving company impediments.  
• Introduced and implemented Developer Experience (DevEx) initiative and Zero-bug policy. 
• Occasionally using Liberating structure formats to help collaboration. 
• Made a Growth system for developers in tight collaboration with them.

(Lead) Scrum Master

Eipix Entertainment

• Working both as a Scrum Master and a Product Owner in the team.
• Implementing Agile principles and Scrum/Kanban frameworks into the team. 
• Creating product backlogs for multiple HOPA game projects.
• Constantly refining, prioritizing and sequencing the product backlog in order to gain the greatest business/customer value from the product, on the needed dates.
• Continually communicating with the team in order to clarify each user story.   
• Always looking at the project from a customer perspective and making sure to get as much feedback as possible from the stakeholders and customers to raise the quality of product backlog items.
• Inspecting the product progress and accepting or rejecting the work done. 
• Communicating project status to supervisors and stakeholders. 
• Continuous elimination of waste has led to the success of many of the previous statements.  
• Trained over 50 people in Agile and Scrum.

Product Manager & Scrum Master (Producer)

• Constantly doing customer research to figure out our user personas in order to create fun and meaningful user experiences for the player.
• Designed and documented user interactions (gameplay, game mechanics, special features, puzzles...) and overall user experience for HOPA games using various office suites.  
• Wrote narrative elements of the game: concept proposals, story, backstory, dialogues and cinematic scripts.
• Worked together and constantly communicated with members of the Concept Art, 3D Art, 2D Art, Character Art, Producers, Level Design, Programming, Cinematic team and the rest of the Game Design members to achieve a high-quality game experience.
• Efficiently and creatively resolved various production issues.

Game Designer

Cultural Center of Novi Sad

• Hired full time as a part of a new project manager team to plan, organize and manage various new projects. 
• Used Waterfall methodologies in managing projects but soon discovered and implemented some of the Agile practices like the daily stand-up meetings 
• Identified and implemented best practices and best opportunities for optimization 
• Identified and quickly resolved all problems that appeared 
• Developed several great promotions grounded in clear understanding of public need along with their feedback 
• Number of visitors per project I personally organized increased from 100-400% 
• Worked effectively in a heavily cross-functional, fast paced environment with numerous people

Lead Project Manager

• Hired part time to plan, organize and manage a project which would revitalize the Forum for Young people in the Cultural Center of Novi Sad 
• Did a thorough research during the February 2013, planned three events, made a promotional and a financial plan, found people needed to do the project which was named University at the Turning-point and successfully managed all three events during March, April and May 2013
• Project was a great success, and next month I got full-time employment in this institution

Project Manager

Publishing house Zlatni zmaj

• Developed sales, communication, presentation and people skills

Sales Representative

STR "Lio"

Ledinačko Jezero Lake

Lifeguard

🔥 Most Agile people you hire will fail. 

📉 You won't get the expected results or you won't get any results at all.

🎯 They don't know how to focus on the right things in Agile. 
 
📚 I've also gone through that and this is where I can jump in. 

📈 Through time, I have learned how to achieve impact like: 

- 10x throughput with Cycle time of 1-2 days
- Going from hundreds of open bugs in a 5-team unit to zero bugs and lead time of <5 days
- Raising team happiness to 9.8/10
- Implementing OKRs to drive outcomes
- Improving meeting quality for over 20 meetings from 3.7/5 to 4.57/5 
- Plus much more...

🧪 And I'm still experimenting my way through, finding each new day things that make an impact. 

🔍 I'm finding the best ways to do Agile and teaching others how to do it.  

👉 If you want to know more - follow me on Linkedin for Tips & Memes that will skyrocket your Agility or shoot me a DM to have a chat 🚀

The posts on this profile reflect only my own views.

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