Development Manager
boplats
Total years of experience :27 years, 3 months
Responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the development teams, improving the agile process, project planning, and maximizing the software delivery performance of teams. Identify and coordinate strategic improvement initiatives, lead change, work tightly with stakeholders to make sure that the product meets the business demands, commitments, and improvement objectives.
International marketing with responsibilities of new market development, managing R&D project, establishing new marketing, market analysis, sales, advising new AI features, new partnership and marketing strategy development.
Improvement Driver / Agile Coach at Volvo Cars, Continuous improvement & change
August 2022 - Present
This organisation works as a shared service within Volvo Cars being frontline in transformation, changing and improving workflow and the quality. The aims are to work with improvement on all levels in the organization to improve agile process, increase collaboration, align clusters, speed productions and improve teams.
• Drive organisational improvement
• Break down the barriers
• Simplifying and improving the way of working together with project and line managers
• Developing change roadmaps
• Work with improvements and software development processes
• Drive efficiency and quality initiatives
• Working to align way of working within organization
• Ensure the deployment of the proposed changes
• Work with other organizations and stockholders to align processes and ways of working
• Proactively suggest improvements according to best practices.
COMPLETE LIST OF TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS USED
Scrum, Agile Coaching, SAFe 5.0, Confluence, MIRO, VIRA, GROW coaching, Lean product flow,
leadership coaching, teaching.
Jun 2021- Augst 2022
At R&D organization, ART infotainment, Navi and speech department, was Leading the development work of two Scrum teams for development of map navigation and positioning with our partner Google. Guiding, governing, and supporting the implementation of defined Agile processes and practices. Providing mentoring and coaching support to teams in adoption of agile values, principles, behaviours; and removing barriers between stakeholders and teams. Coordinate and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, team meetings, PI meetings, sprint demo, retrospective meetings and decision-making processes to ensure quality and adoption of practices. Improve efficiency and facilitate creative problem solving on development teams. Forecast the number of deliverables possible in an iteration based on evidence and reliable sources.
COMPLETE LIST OF TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS USED
JIRA, Confluence, C++, Java, Coaching, Scrum, Team health check
Responsibility of supporting and guiding developings teams, UX teams, scrum masters, product owners and managers.
Coach teams for continual improvement, lobbying to drive change and transformation locally and internationally. Help the team embrace, adopt and apply agile principles and practices, support the team’s agile ways of working like SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Definition-of-Done, WIP limits etc, facilitate the team’s progress toward team goals by focusing on improving performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity as well as staying focused on the team’s iteration goals.
Create and design an Agile transformation map, create Agile training material specific to the organization, conduct workshops and training for all levels of the organization.
I am responsible to ensure that the Scrum method and theory, Agile practices, and rules are understood and enacted. Drive the client’s vision through strategic thinking and work close together with development teams, different stakehold and other managers, locally and internationally.
A business analyst as well as holding product owner and Scrum Master role. Responsible for requirements gathering, project reviews, system analysis, document functional requirements and business requirements and creation of product backlog.
Provide documentation i.e. GAP Analysis, Requirement Specification with Use Cases, Workflow, diagrams also assist development teams with User Interface and Interaction Designs.
Create project planning, project-proposals, scope management and analyze requirements to ensure functionality and testability. Understanding and practicing agility and facilitating Scrum events.
Manage communication externally and internally with different stakeholders. .
Operational responsibility for higher vocational training for Object-orienting system developing program with responsibilities for education managing and planning, needs analysis, developing courses, syllabi and exams. Teaching also in Object Orienting programming (Java, C#), Agile, Scrum, Database, SQL, System analysis and design.
Managing, training and developing local teams. Identify and track metrics for measuring effects of new ways of working on team velocity and product quality over time, coaching and giving training to improve to business creation processes, improve the efficiency of organization and teams.
Extensive experience in Best Management Practices such as: Project Management and Agile (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP), Project Planning, ITIL Service Management, Change Management, Release Management, Expert knowledge of emerging markets and operating in a multicultural context, Agile Coaching /Enterprise Agile Transformation: helping teams and leaders prepare for their Agile Transformation journey and agile Implementations.
Working with market in Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Nigeria, Singapore, Thailand, India and China.
System architect and project management for many projects like Automobile, CRM systems, and webpages. Create the system architects for the application, requirements management, testing planing. Provide consultation for Automobil, CRM and E-commerce solutions. Working with Agile Portfolio Management and Scrum Master Development.
Good knowledge in Automobil system : AutoSar, ISO26262, BaseTechnologies (SWDL), Diagnostics, Elektra, CANONe, Lotus Notes, Sharepoints, SWI and e-tracker.
Developing courses, researching, supervising and teaching for graduate and undergraduate students in the flowing courses: Database Design, SQL Programing, Business and Information Technologies, Information security, IT-Management and Security, Operative system and System Architect, supervising examine project. www.bh.se
Marketing (6 years)
Vice -CEO, Global Vision House Sweden (2011 - Present)
Director Manager, Enbo Sweden (2002 - 2006)
Technical sales, Labs 2, (2000 - 2001)
• Working with market in Iraq, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, India, China and Hong Kong
• Developing new business opportunities
• Produced an entry strategy
• Identify new partnership and establishing new relationships
• Instituted performance tracking and evaluation processes significantly increasing responsiveness and accountability
• Applied senior technical expertise as well as full-range management and planning which focuses on maximizing company efficiencies by streamlining internal processes and communications.
• Managed staff, staff hiring, performed personnel and technical evaluations, project reviews, and developed and maintained the divisions budget
• Implemented training policies to enhance user proficiency
As a lecturer at university I worked with developing courses, created syllabi, exams, homework assignments, group work assignments, supervising and teaching for graduate and undergraduate students in the flowing courses: ICT based communication, User requirement & system Design, IT and Globalization, Information Security, Test & Quality Assurance, Swedish Academic Culture. Throughout the PhD study, I did substantial amount of studies and researches on system development process, system development methods, cross-cultural issues, complex system management and international project management. www.oru.se
Enbo Sweden is established in Sweden and works Arab countries. The company has two main areas of business activity: business agency and training programs for professionals. I was responsible for sales, marketing, operations, contract, identifying business opportunities and price negations.
Developing new business opportunities, new partnership, establishing new relationships, produce an entry strategy, marketing research and analyses. Working with market in Iraq, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, India and China. www.labs2.com
Oversee improvement in product quality and working routines. Establishing standards, procedures, quality plans, quality policy, and quality manuals. Collecting quality data metrics, evaluated testing results for each potential release and bug information in priority sequence. Delivered testing procedures, testing plans, testing case study, testing project document, quality policy, new working routines and quality manuals. www.framfab.com
Supervised and participated in variety of complex software developing projects, database design and system integration. Identify customer’s technical needs, analyzed the client requirements and system architect. Using Windows platform, Linux, Java, .NET, HTML, CSS, XML, ASP.NET, SQL SERVER, IIS, C++, Java, SQL, ASP, VB and Java Script and Access.
• Manage a unit of 10 software development members
• Identify customer’s technical needs and analyzed the client requirements.
• Oversee the entire usability process from concept to implementation
• Delegate tasks to team members to produce dynamic and efficient workflows
• Provide consultation to clients and management for CRM and E-commerce solutions
• Project documentation and the technical documentation for the application
• Mentor team members and provide hands-on coaching
• Conduct workshops, brainstorming sessions, research analysis and presentations
• Project planning and feature negotiation with product management and marketing.
• Train and helped other developers to resolve the technical problems.
Ph. D. candidate, 240 hp, Örebro University, Sweden (2006-present) The focus of my research is primarily on the Software Development Processes and Cultural context at international organisations. www.oru.se
Master of Science in Computer Sciences, 120 hp, Lund University, Sweden, (1998-2000) Main subjects: Software Testing, Quality, Mobile Systems, System Development, Usability and Project Management. www.lu.se
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Computer Sciences, 180 hp, Lund University, Sweden, (1995-1998) Main subjects: System Design and Developing, Computer Sciences, Software Architect, Programming and Project Management. www.lu.se