Mike Strong

Role
Principal Agile Coach at Sabre
Location
North Richland Hills, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Mike Strong

Current Status: Officially retired, but open to possibilities.* Experienced…

Experience

  1. Principal Agile Coach

    Sabre

    May 2018 — Present

    Coaching complete value delivery lifecycle: Product Discovery and Ideation, Product and Portfolio Mgmt, Lean/Agile hypothesis-driven implementation, fast feedback loops with DevSecOps, and SRE-enabled continuous delivery. • Using Value Stream Mapping to assess problem areas, delays, and waste in enterprise initiatives. Worked with groups that were particularly struggling to adopt Lean and Agile principles. These included data-only teams and operational teams. • Working with Enterprise Architects, Product Managers, other leaders, and peers to define our Lean/Agile/DevSecOps aspirational “North Star” vision. • Working with our UX Center of Excellence to integrate the Sabre UX Design Strategy Framework and Portfolio Kanban into an end-to-end, concept-to-delivery value delivery process. • Created and delivered many classes on various topics, both in-person and virtually. Developed self-paced classes with Camtasia, Adobe Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, Descript, and other tools for international distribution and use within our company. • Helped the Data Science teams learn and embrace Agile Data Science techniques. • Successfully proposed and guided the organization to create a value stream comprised of teams across different functional organizational boundaries. • Helped a new R&D research team form. Two smaller teams merged from different departments. I helped them to bond as a new team and to self-organize around Lean and Agile principles, values, and processes. I also led them through a study of John Doerr\'s book on OKRs. Also facilitated large-scale OKR workshops. • Helped a new Center of Excellence define offerings and services, from lightweight value stream analysis to Scaled Agile adoption readiness assessments, training, embedded coaching and mentoring, and more. Fostered a pull model for the Centers of Excellence. • Wrote Python and Javascript reports and extensions for Rally. • Led a professional book study club to encourage continuous group learning.

Skills

  • Agile Project Management
  • Software Development Management
  • Enterprise Software
  • Technical Leadership
  • Clearcase
  • Struts
  • Business Process
  • Db2
  • Distributed Systems
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Pmp
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Scrum
  • Software Design
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  • Ldap
  • Data Modeling
  • Cloud Computing
  • Maven
  • Middleware
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Agile
  • Ejb
  • Solution Architecture
  • Database Design
  • Operating Systems
  • Git
  • Design Patterns
  • System Architecture
  • Software Development Methodologies
  • Websphere Application Server
  • Enterprise Content Management
  • Scrum Master
  • Shell Scripting
  • Program Management
  • Software Engineering
  • Jms
  • Programming
  • Jboss Application Server
  • Esb

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