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Andy Deighton

Verified Expert in Project Management

Project Manager

Location

Brighton, United Kingdom

Toptal Member Since

September 17, 2020

在成为专注于产品的scrum主管和敏捷教练之前，Andy是一名资深Java web开发人员，工作了十多年. From startups to multinationals, from fintechs to commercial banking, from data science to web development teams, Andy has a wide gamut of experience. 作为一名专业的Scrum Master，他帮助团队茁壮成长，并发现客户的需求. In managing projects, Andy使用最新的分析方法来帮助客户回答这个问题, “When will it be done?”

Scrum Master Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)Agile Coaching Software Development Technical Project Management Scrum Coaching Agile Jira Scrum Agile Project Management Atlassian Suite Agile Leadership Kanban Agile Product Management Web Development

Project Highlights

From Scrum to Kanban With Data Scientists

带领四个数据科学家和工程师团队采用看板和流分析.

Fintech Product Management

就一家领先的养老金咨询解决方案的产品发现提供法律意见.

Expertise

Agile Coaching Agile Practices Agile Project Management Jira Kanban Product Discovery Product Management Scrum Master

Work Experience

Agile Project Manager

2019 - 2020

EDF Energy

Led EDF’s data science team's Agile journey by implementing Scrum, which was accomplished after three months. EDF Energy is the UK's largest electricity supplier, 负责产生英国很大一部分的核能能力.
曾担任四个数据科学和数据工程团队的敏捷教练和scrum管理员，并指导后来接任scrum管理员职责的团队成员.
向组织介绍了一种以数据为主导的方法，以看板的形式结合高级流分析进行项目预测. 使用敏捷分析，我们可以更准确地预测团队能力和交付日期.
Coached and mentored seven employees individually, covering subjects as diverse as retrospectives, difficult team members, communication, development patterns, testing, and personal confidence.

Team Coach

2018 - 2019

Mind Tools

Introduced Agile practices, flow efficiency, 并将可视化工作交给一个由10名软件开发人员组成的团队，负责该公司的旗舰产品，该产品是用Python构建的. Mind Tools是一家为企业提供在线学习材料的公司.
为包括业务代表在内的跨职能团队做好组织准备.
为项目经理和项目经理提供敏捷原则和实践方面的指导.
介绍了SonarQube代码质量分析器作为测量技术债务的一种手段. 在SonarQube通过后执行了技术性债务削减战略.

Agile Coach

2018 - 2019

National Grid

为国家电网计量主管提供高管级别的培训, the UK's power grid infrastructure owner and operator.
为国家电网计量领导团队创建并促进了敏捷研讨会.
以敏捷的方式指导领导团队中的个人.

Scrum Master

2017 - 2018

Lloyds Bank

Led a department's adoption of Agile practices and Scrum. 该部门每年负责生成数百万条客户通信.
Created four distinct Scrum teams, each comprising remote workers spanning England, Scotland, and India. Selected and trained their respective scrum masters.
就敏捷项目管理的最佳实践向部门主管提供建议.

Product Advisor

2016 - 2016

Wealth Wizards

在产品管理方法和最佳实践方面培训和指导公司的产品负责人. Wealth Wizards是一家屡获殊荣的金融科技公司，专门从事自动化养老金咨询.
与产品管理团队一起启动新产品发现项目.
向7人的开发团队介绍Scrum，并担任他们的Scrum主管, delivering multiple iterations of the company's key offering.

Scrum Master

2014 - 2016

Asset Bank

在一个客户的项目中担任scrum主管，该客户目前是世界上最大的公司. Across three-week sprints, 我们不断地交付他们的产品迭代，旨在管理数字资产的实时捕获.
与公司的几个客户创建并随后实现了敏捷合同. Bright是一家数字资产管理提供商和定制软件供应商.
Practiced sociocratic facilitation across the organization.

Technical Scrum Master

2009 - 2014

Crunch

在公司爆炸性的投资前增长阶段，作为高级开发人员塑造和开发了核心产品(用Java开发).
推出了产品的许多关键特性，并始终满足交付目标.
管理多个Scrum团队，并向他们介绍Scrum和敏捷原则.
与领导团队和产品所有者就产品故事进行协商，并成功地促成了许多高质量和高价值的发布.
跨产品开发团队共同实现了一个彻底的测试制度，并引入了极端的编程实践，如结对编程和测试驱动开发.

Java Developer

2006 - 2007

BMW United Kingdom

领导公司内部业务应用程序的分析、设计和实现.
负责收集内部客户需求，并在公司的WebLogic平台上推出应用程序的迭代.
通过与开发人员的审查，确保代码质量保持在最高水平.

Project History

From Scrum to Kanban With Data Scientists

带领四个数据科学家和工程师团队采用看板和流分析.

我将15名数据科学家和数据工程师组织成4个Scrum团队. After several months, I guided them through reteaming and then, ultimately, 开始采用看板方法来测量和控制他们的工作流程, which involved using AWS, PySpark, Python, Java, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebooks.
使用更循证的方法进行预测允许利益相关者, and the teams themselves, to get a better handle on when work would be delivered.

Fintech Product Management

http://wealthwizards.com

就一家领先的养老金咨询解决方案的产品发现提供法律意见.

我首先为公司组建了一个Scrum团队，由JavaScript、Node组成.js, UX, and QA engineers. Once the team was up and running with Scrum, 我介绍了包括影响映射在内的产品发现技术, user story mapping, and generative and evaluative user research. 这导致了该产品的后续版本更好地满足了公司用户的需求.