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I work with people, teams and organisations to move them towards mastery, autonomy and the ability to respond rapidly to market changes. Amazing people deliver amazing solutions, and at the heart of my approach is putting the needs of people and teams over adhering to processes. Acting in primarily a coaching and enabling capacity, I work with...

I work with people, teams and organisations to move them towards mastery, autonomy and the ability to respond rapidly to market changes. Amazing people deliver amazing solutions, and at the heart of my approach is putting the needs of people and teams over adhering to processes. Acting in primarily a coaching and enabling capacity, I work with individuals, teams and organisations to produce high quality, validated products that have impact in the market they're distributed in. I believe in building quality into what we construct, getting fast feedback and creating learning environments where a rapid build-measure-learn cycle is embraced, using my Lean/Agile toolkit to facilitate this. Enterprise Agile focuses on shoehorning Agile practices into a traditional, Taylorism-oriented environment. I focus on creating truly Agile enterprises. Sector experience in Banking (Retail/Investment), Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Consumer Goods, Transport, Digital Agencies and Marketing.Enterprise Agile Coach @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomPrincipal and Owner @ Providing advisory, coaching and consulting services to organisations across a variety of industries and specialisms. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) London, United KingdomExternal Agile Advisor @ From November 2014 to July 2015 (9 months) London, United KingdomScrum Master & Agile Coach @ Helping the Coalition Loyalty area transition towards Agile and Lean practices, including: - Transitioning the Nectar OpenAPI team to the Kanban Method - Coaching on Agile, XP and Lean practices such as BDD/ATDD - Advocated and advised on Continuous Delivery practices such as good CI practices, distributed VCS and Consumer-Driven Contracts - Communities of Practice setup, covering a variety of topics with practical activities - Training sessions and experiential games to facilitate understanding of ToC, constraining WIP and pull-based systems - Internal training workshops providing 'Agile 101' training - Coaching and Scrum Mastering of multiple delivery teams (OpenAPI; Mobile) - Facilitated the organisational move from a project --> product mindset From February 2014 to November 2014 (10 months) London, United KingdomTechnical Delivery Manager @ Led the delivery of multiple creative-led campaigns for the Nike account. Worked in a Technical Lead capacity to troubleshoot and aid the delivery of products onto client platforms (Nike; Foot Locker) as well as assisting with technical tasks where required. In a Scrum Master capacity oversaw delivery teams, working in a Servant Leader capacity to engage teams, lead them towards self-organisation and using appropriate processes from Scrum and Kanban to manage delivery of work and push the team to continually evolve and improve. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, showcases and sprint retrospectives and experimenting with different approaches to help teams get the best out of themselves. From July 2013 to January 2014 (7 months) London, United KingdomAgile Consultant @ Hands-on role delivering enhancements and establishing Agile practices on the retail side of Barclays. As a developer worked with a cross functional team to deliver new products and simplify existing user journeys for products, increasing conversion of key products across a wide portfolio of assets using a mixture of good engineering practices (BDD; TDD). As a Scrum Master transitioned the team from Scrum to Kanban, and helped drive out where possible improvements in the delivery pipeline and team output. From July 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomAgile Consultant @ Hands-on role delivering enhancements and establishing Agile practices. From July 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomDevelopment - Engineering @ Worked in the Engineering capability of Deloitte Digital, acting as Scrum Master/technical lead/senior developer on a variety of projects, including: - Integration lead for a retail eCommerce implementation - Scrum Master for B2C portal for a well-known A/V manufacturer - Technical lead for a data-mining tool used to extract information about a leading pharmaceutical's online presence - Portal developer on a B2C refund portal for a well-known transport provider. From September 2008 to July 2012 (3 years 11 months) London, United KingdomSummer Intern - Liquidity Risk @ From July 2006 to September 2006 (3 months) London, United KingdomIndustrial Placement Intern - Portal Development @ From June 2005 to June 2006 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomPGDip BioHealth Informatics @ The University of Manchester From 2007 to 2008 BSc(Hons), Computer Science with Industrial Experience @ The University of Manchester From 2003 to 2007 Dhaval Shah is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development, Agile Project Management, JIRA, Java, Kanban, Integration, E-commerce, Continuous Integration, Test Automation, Java Enterprise Edition, Software Development, Agile, Subversion