Raph Pour-Hashemi

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ABOUT RAPH POUR-HASHEMI

Versatile, experienced and passionate Agile Coach / Project Delivery expert with strong stakeholder management flair and a diverse history of project success stories in varied and difficult environments. Pragmatic Agile Evangelist - Expert at rendering dysfunctional / deeply hostile teams into effective Agile success stories and successfully delivered Agile projects. Strong experience in working with developers stuck in their comfort zones and teams unwilling to transition to leaner principles. I work with the teams to generate an iterative development cycle and help them shape epics, stories, facilitate effective standups and partake in worthwhile planning, estimating and retrospective sessions. Adept within rigid or loose structures – Have worked with strong, traditional organizations high on governance and bureaucracy and slow on pace to startups unwilling to deviate from their fast-and-loose culture. Facilitate Agile Training – I can teach Agile on-the-floor or via workshops/handout materials and work with companies to find an Agile solution that suits their methods as opposed to throwing out their established frameworks. Delivery Expert – Whether large one-off fixed deadline projects such as BBC Cloud Migration project or weekly episodic gaming content (King) – Certified Scrum Master / Scrum Trainer and Prince2 Practitioner. Strong brand / Big Company experience – Long and diverse career based around multiple reputable brands in incredibly diverse sectors and environments – each with their own bespoke challenges to overcome. Extensive Stakeholder Management Flair - Vast experience/lessons in managing notoriously difficult Stakeholders across multiple sectors at both ends of hierarchy such as Floor Traders / TV Presenters / C-Level Executives / Disgruntled Developers. Versatile Technology Experience – Scrum / Kanban / SAFE / Java / SQL / C++/ Python / C#/ TDD / BDD - have worked with a diverse range of technology stacks and developer pools