Yvonne Delaney

About Yvonne Delaney

I am a global agile thought leader and change agent helping the largest organizations improve how they produce products and create real value. My Agile coaching passion and expertise in software engineering allow me to support companies worldwide with complex implementations, lean product delivery, and increased profits. While leading a client\'s agile transformation, I translate their product vision into a cost-effective, market-ready reality by designing tailored solutions for optimal return on investment that promotes their product business value and delivers products their customers love. My strong customer focus helps win repeat business.As an early adopter and SME, I have led numerous large-scale transformations worldwide, providing expert coaching and certified training to leadership and teams. I have led over 30 SAFe ART launches, including multi-ART launches for government and Fortune enterprises. Expanding beyond IT, I have influenced organizations to achieve business agility across their enterprise by shifting leadership mental models to adopt a lean-agile mindset and model new behaviors that have inspired lasting change in company culture and how they approach work.I successfully help organizations produce products more efficiently and run leaner. I incite employee engagement and enable them to iteratively address their areas of improvement to become high-performing teams. I have received client accolades for enabling them to achieve proven results that have produced more immediate value for their companies and enabled them to deliver higher quality products faster to market than their competition.

Experience

1. Principal Consultant

   Agile Rising

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Lead large-scale digital and AI transformations on their enterprise agility journey. Coach senior leaders to champion a lean-agile and growth mindset to build high-performing organizations, continuously adapt/adopt to modern trends in new ways of working, and drive sustainable growth in the age of AI. Educate/coach the organization on a disciplined, lean approach to building products that delight customers while improving efficiencies and achieving sustainable, predictable value delivery.

Education

• Old Dominion University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Selenium, Pushtotest, Soapui, Perforce
• Unix
• Software Project Management
• Agile Lean
• Agile Project Management
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Unix, Linux, Windows, Perl, Korn, Python, Ruby
• Test Driven Development
• Waterfall
• Software Configuration Management
• Cmmi
• Software Design
• Sql
• Silktest, Remedy, Qtp, Quality Center
• Project Management
• Quality Center
• Defect Tracking
• Business Process Improvement
• Kanban
• Adobe Flex, Java, J2ee, Junit, Javascript, Javadoc
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Quality Assurance
• Integration
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Doors, E-Synergy, Liquid Planner, Rational Suite
• Requirements Management
• Test Planning
• Html
• Software Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Testing
• Html, Xml, C, C++, C#, Visual C++, Visual Studio
• Pmp
• Iso 9000
• Process Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Agile Scrum, Agile Xp, Saas, Taas