- Certified ScrumMaster
- Successfully delivered multiple products and projects with a Lean approach, through effective coaching and leadership.
- Experience within all key areas of the software life cycle
- Analytical and technical adaptability
- Proficient with communication, facilitation and stakeholder management
Scrum Master @ Scrum Master in NOW TV, managing a team that builds and supports nowtv.com, including the eCommerce journey, and our in-house purpose built CMS that pushes content across different platforms. Facilitating the successful delivery of multiple projects whilst striving to continuously improve our ways of working.
Key responsibilities:
- Agile coaching (Technology and Product)
- Line management and mentoring
- Enabling an empowered and self-organising team culture
- Stakeholder management
- Personal and Career development of team members
- Recruitment
- Facilitation of the teams and their daily/ weekly sessions (Stand ups, Planning, Showcases and Retrospectives)
- Encouraging continuous improvement From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Scrum Master @ Scrum Master for the Online Help & Support teams - managing 2 agile web teams that maintain and develop the Help and Support areas of sky.com, such as help.sky.com, contactus.sky.com, diagnostics.sky.com and servicestatus.sky.com. Maintaining and improving relationships with Product Owners and stakeholders – ensuring the wider team are bought into delivering features through a beneficial methodology. Shielding the team from noise and unnecessary pressure. Fostering an innovative, empowered and self-organised culture, whilst facilitating the successful delivery of valuable software to our customers via Continuous Delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Agile coaching
- Line management and mentoring
- Personal and Career development of team members
- Finance - forecasting and budgeting for teams
- Recruitment
- Facilitation of the teams and their daily/ weekly sessions (Stand ups, Planning, Showcases and Retrospectives)
- Anticipating and removing impediments
- Encouraging continuous improvement
- Keeping teams and stakeholders focused on the MVP, iterative development and customer value. From February 2013 to March 2015 (2 years 2 months) Technical Analyst @ Worked as the Analyst for an agile web team, who build and maintain 5 different web applications across the Sky.com estate. These include billing, payments, account management, order tracking/ management, booking PPV events and buying accessories. Managed stakeholders from many different areas of the Business and Technology, along with defining and prioritising requirements. Efficiently managed the work coming into the team, whilst being able to successfully lead simultaneous projects end-to-end and drive them from an online perspective. Consistently kept on top of the team’s dependencies to ensure the delivery and go-live activities were aligned.
Key responsibilities:
- Technical and Business analysis
- Writing test scenarios to enable Test-Driven-Development (TDD)
- Managing the product and sprint backlogs
- Managing the team's roadmap
- Weekly sprint planning
- Showcases and Retrospectives
- Estimation and facilitating technical solutions
- Stakeholder management
- Working closely with many different areas of the business and technology From July 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 8 months) Technology Graduate @ A 2 year graduate scheme; consisting of 6 weeks intensive training followed by four placements (lasting 6 months each) within different areas of the business. Placements are positioned in the key areas of the software life cycle and include, Business Analysis, Development, Testing and Operations.
Completed placements:
Business Test Analyst - Airtime Sales
A role based in the Test team of Sky Media. Involved UAT, offsite FAT, Regression and Manual testing, writing test scripts and creating test strategies for new functionality or releases of software for the Airtime Sales function. Worked closely with Business Analysis team, Support team and the Business users.
Business Analyst - Broadband & Telephony
Working in the Business Integration Solutions Analysis team on large scale Telecommunications projects including WLR3 (wholesale line rental) and SVBN (Sky Voice & Broadband Network) phase 2. Managing stakeholders, chairing requirement workshops, producing requirement catalogues and use cases. Worked closely with Project Managers, System Designers, Product Management and End Users.
Procurement Analyst - Broadcast Technology
Securing deals for equipment, technology and services for Broadcast projects. Negotiating and agreeing commercial, legal and technical terms with external suppliers. Managing stakeholder expectations, relationships with suppliers and project teams. Drafted legal contracts, whilst obtaining full internal agreement from stakeholders.
Broadcast Systems Producer - Broadcast Computing
A development role, building and supporting software systems used in Sky Sports, Sky Sports News and Sky News to drive information to the graphics engines. Predominantly programming in C# and SQL. From July 2009 to July 2011 (2 years 1 month)
BSc Hons (2:1), Business and Communications, Media & Culture @ Oxford Brookes University From 2006 to 2009 Anikh Subhan is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis, Scrum, Project Delivery, Management, Technical Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Business Requirements, Agile Project Management, Agile, User Acceptance Testing, SQL, Testing, Analysis
Websites:
http://youtu.be/ueytUwYckes,
http://leansoftwaredelivery.wordpress.com/