KaiRise

In my role as a Partner at KaiRise, I spearheaded the development of the industry's first on-demand ICAgile accredited course, transforming the way agile training is delivered. By prioritizing flexibility and speed, I successfully increased course enrollment and client satisfaction, making agile training more accessible than ever before.

Partner

Accenture

Working across all Federal accounts and capabilities at AFS’ San Antonio location, promote awareness and adoption of Lean-Agile values, principles, processes and technical practices. Consult with clients and account teams on effective patterns for transformation and high-quality delivery. Provide thought leadership to enable accounts to grow their Lean-Agile practice. Provide sales and BD support at the account, sector and portfolio level. 

Primary focus falls into four key areas:

Delivery Support - Jumpstart new Agile projects by helping client teams understand Agile, onboard key roles, execute Sprint Zero. Work closely with project leadership to assess organizational impediments, measure flow and develop strategies for continuously improving. 

Thought Leadership - Collaborate with the AFS Agile Institute, Accenture LLP,  and the industry as a whole to promote local adoption of our corporate capabilities, and industry best practices. 

Education - Provide classroom training to project teams and clients in our ICAgile accredited courses and the Scaled Agile (SAFe) curriculum. 

Sales Enablement - Play an active role in supporting business development and proposal efforts for Agile opportunities across all accounts.

Agile Consultant

Compassion International

As a servant-leader, coach the global solutions engineering teams (currently 11 agile teams) to manage the life cycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products primarily using Lean and Agile SDLC practices – Scrum, KanBan, XP, ScrumBan, SAFe.  

Continuously develop a work environment promoting continual improvement and learning, free from fear of failure, while supporting mistakes that encourage continual learning.  Employ a Lean leadership style focusing on developing team members’ skills. 
Serve as an Agile Coach and transformation agent as the ministry transforms to a new way of thinking, applying Lean Agile principles to all levels of work.  Create teams that are jointly responsible for success, solving problems together in ways that develop people’s capabilities and increases their engagement and commitment, focusing on respect for people.

Develop and implement global strategy for application software design and development. Ensure staffing and development in function to provide technical and strategic expertise in the creation of global inter-related system design for existing architecture or new deployments.  Direct the development of specifications and requirements to integrate global applications.  Serve as catalyst and expert leader, driving the development and implementation of new standards in software development.

Provide strategic direction in gathering requirements and development specifications to design and integrate into applications.  Direct application software design and development services and technical leadership for existing architecture or new deployments. Create an environment that attracts and develops skilled professional staff engaged in coding, testing, implementing, and maintaining large software applications.

Sr. Director - Solutions Engineering

Direct technology delivery focused on enterprise services (Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus)  enterprise information management (the Enterprise Data Warehouse) and enterprise database management (MSSQL DBMS).
Direct enterprise information management solutions, division staff and resources. 
Direct solutions delivery, process and policy assurance, budgeting and financial management, resource planning, management reporting and the attainment of cross-organizational objectives and service levels. Collaborate with IT management teams, key decision-makers and global stakeholders to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support cost-effective, strategically - aligned enterprise data management solutions for all aspects of the global organization.
As Strategic Business Partner, and Agile Coach, participate in the development and execution of strategies to drive agile adoption throughout the organization. Examples include defining an Agile maturity model, establishing best practices, teaching Agile related classes and guiding the Managing Directors, Product Managers and project leads in the establishment of Agile practices.

Director - Enterprise Technology, SBP

Douglas County

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Elections office in a medium-sized County, providing direct supervision, coordination, and technical guidance to staff, maintaining a high level of morale, ensuring service excellence and increasing team productivity. Supported advanced technical needs of office staff, as well as Directors and Elected Officials both inside and outside of Douglas County, including hardware/software support, project management, business analysis, and vendor relations.   Utilized sophisticated technology skills to streamline processes and reduce overhead by implementing methodologies to improve support, manage customer expectations, and build strong cross-agency relationships. Recognized leader in the State by the Colorado Department of State (CDOS) with regards to voting systems technology and statewide voter registration database management.

Senior Product Manager

Senior System Analyst

Reformed PMP turned Agile delivery expert | Helping you earn more 💵 | Agile certification pays - get yours today at your own pace. KaiRise.com

Instructor-led agile training is one of the worst ways to up-skill your workforce. There are 3 gigantic problems with old-school, instructor led training.

🚫 It pulls workers away from their daily jobs to take training
🚫 It takes forever to schedule, coordinate and run
🚫 It doesn’t scale

◾️What I do

I'm a partner at KaiRise, with three decades of experience helping enterprises implement agility. We've cracked the code on how to train your staff in a way that actually generates results.

◾️How We Help?

I’ve distilled what I’ve learned into the fastest most effective way to earn the ICAgile Certified Professional Certification. We created the world’s first on-demand ICAgile accredited course.

It’s used at enterprises around the world to transform the learning experience, while stretching budget dollars and…

👉Is Available 24/7
👉Is Trusted & Certified 
👉Has Bite-sized learning for seamless integration into daily tasks
👉Has zero death by powerpoint or forgetting everything you’ve just learned
👉Will certify your workforce in half the time of regular training

◾️Expected Results

✅ 40% reduction in training costs
✅ 30% increase in the volume of certifications issued
✅ 50% reduction in the time to complete training
✅ 72 Net Promoter Score (excellent)

◾️Don't just take my word for it

“Absolutely loved the content, format, and instruction style of this course. The self-pacing was great for my learning style. Would recommend it to practically anyone!”
Stella Griffith - Sr. Business Analyst at Fidelity Investments

“Great Course and Engaging Style. From the bite-sized learning modules to the reinforcement through quizzes and interactive activities, this course is a great intro to the world of Agile.”
Ian Santo Domingo - Principal & Managing Director at Vault Consulting

“I am a Certified ScrumMaster, but I truly believe this course has set me up for broader organizational success. I can't say enough great things about Agile Foundations!”
Lindsey Parker - Strategic Projects Coordinator at Fellowship of Christian Athletes

And many more at www.KaiRise.com

◾️My Background

With three decades of hands-on experience, completed 16 agile certifications, and having trained thousands, I've garnered over 10,000 followers and earned recognition as a top voice in the Agile Community by LinkedIn. My journey has taken me through diverse landscapes, from startups and nonprofits to global corporations and government agencies.

◾️Contact

Ready to change your enterprise training experience? Send me a LinkedIn DM and let's explore if we're a fit. 

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Mike Lyons

Joyn GmbH

To to create and sustain an ecosystem and environment that will enable and drive value for a team of Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches to do the same for the Digital Platforms Domain

Team Lead of Agile Operations Unit

Delivery Lead

SRT Marine Systems plc

working with the Geo-VS team in Cardiff to deliver value to the Business

Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Aviva

Working in Personal Lines with the Machine Learning teams

Lead Scrum Master

Scrum Master

The Agile Transformation Lead is part of the UK Agile Transformation team, with specific accountability for driving transformation activity for Bristol, Exeter, Salisbury and Dorking teams and locations. 

Using Agile incremental delivery principles and practices to lead, inform and co-ordinate activity with a wide range of stakeholders in areas such as procurement, facilities, HR, PMO, audit etc. Championing Agile values and concepts to gain buy-in and active support across both IT and business areas.

Agile Transformation Lead

Project Manager
Working with internal and external suppliers to deliver retirement options for corporate customers that had been removed from scope from the main delivery. The end customer was at the heart of everything delivered as people were waiting to access their retirement funds, so working with Legal, Compliance, Risk and the Operations teams, quick solutions were delivered whilst maintaining the integrity of the longer term outcome.

IT Project Manager 
Dropped in as an IT Project Manager  into an ongoing multi-million pound project to deliver online Critical Illness cover that was being delivered by an offsite 3rd party. Extremely challenging deadlines and working environment in which the Agile mindset and scrum ceremonies and artefacts  were introduced to control the delivery that was spinning out of control.

Senior Project Manager

Friends Life group

Friends Life, UKI Project Manager					
working with a newly acquired Critical Illness portfolio, worked closely with the business and IT teams to deliver managed releases that added business value

Friends Life, eCommerce Project Manager			
Rebranding Phase 1: Managed and implemented eComm Workstream for both protection and non-protection aspects relating to changes to eCommerce.

IT Project Manager

Project Manager

Viasat Broadcasting UK Ltd

Viasat Broadcasting UK LTD, Project Consultant:
Working with Viasat Broadcasting as a Project Consultant for the implementation of a new Channel Management and Sales System for Eastern European channel providers.

Viasat Broadcasting UK LTD, IT and Systems Manager:
Project Managing new business requirements from the IT and Systems perspective, ensuring correct use of the existing Channels Management Systems and advising best practice throughout for all Viasat partners and sub-channels and travelling throughout Central and Eastern Europe to help deliver the strategy.

IT & Systems Manager

Connect Support Services

To direct and enhance the development team in delivering creative, technological solutions by using cutting edge technologies and modern management practices. It was also to lead the young team by example in professionalism and dedication to the job and manage the team budget.

Implemented DSDM lifecycle as an approach for delivery and first encountered "Agile"

Development Team Leader

Xansa

Co-Team Leader for the Development Support Team that was based in Accenture offices in Central London

Co-Team Leader

Test Manager on a secondment for Internet Banking Services based in Bank of Scotland offices in Edinburgh

Test Manager

Technical Expert

AXA Sun Life

Project Support Office

A passionate, experienced, and motivated advocate of Change over many years and real-life experience and battle scars of various business sectors and working environments.

I bring a wealth of experience and expertise in steering people and teams towards success, striving for Continuous Improvement. My leadership journey is defined by a passion for driving innovation & fostering agile methodologies to create change & enable transformations.

🔗 Agile Expertise: With a profound knowledge of various agile frameworks, I have successfully implemented various methodologies to enhance team and project efficiency and adaptability. 

🛠️ Project Delivery Excellence: With a background as a Prince2 Project Manager, aligned with many year experience managing change using the most appropriate, I create environments and systems for people to succeed in delivering the outcomes required to meet the Business Goals.

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