Micha de Vries

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ABOUT MICHA DE VRIES

CSM, CSPO & ISEB certified Agile Delivery Expert possessing 15 years agile delivery experience: Dynamic results-driven Coach, Delivery Manager and Agile Trainer of agile foundations driving Agile transformation, eradicating agile anti-patterns and implementing best practice. Manager of end-to-end digital product deliveries across Public and Private sectors, leveraging agile delivery methodologies in complex stakeholder landscapes and organisation environments. Expert in building high-performing teams, coaching stakeholders at all levels, delivering complex digital platforms (MVP and post-MVP) products on budget and on time. Proven success in optimising delivery team topologies, on team as well as release train levels as well as enhancing organisational agility. Laid agile delivery foundations, introduced and deployed agile best practice & improved deliveries at large corporates such as Pearson, Mondelez, Diageo, Coca-Cola & Unilever. Key strengths include:* Agile Delivery Management & Best Practice Deployment * Agile Product & MVP Scope guidance and decisions * Statement of work compilation * stakeholder and scope management in complex organisations & landscapes * Agile Roadmap/PI Planning & Estimation Key Skills * Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Slack, SEI Harnass * RTE, Scrum Master, Delivery manager & Agile trainer roles * Product Backlog Management * Digital Marketing Platforms (DMP),(Integrated) Marketing Campaigns & Promotions * Multi-market, multi-lingual activations & i18n * Back-end integrations such as CMS, eCRM, SCV, DAM, PIM, ePOS, eCouponing, eCommerce, IDaM * Engagement tracking, Targeting, Segmentation, Personalisation, Advocacy * GDS Digital Service Standard & User Centric Design * pragmatic agile coaching, introduction of agile best practice and building self-organising teams * increasing data-driven delivery predictability and improvement of agile roadmap planning and tracking