Project Manager at Custom Development Unit, Agile Group Leader @ Ciklum
Education:
High school @
Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium #109
About:
Agile Certified Senior Project Manager
7+ years’ experience in Project Management within Outsourcing / Product Development
9+ years’ overall experience in IT industry
Technical background with 3-year experience of software development on Microsoft.NET platform
Experience:
• Experienced in Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience of work with multiple management/development tools (Jira, Redmine, Confluence, Crucible, GitLab, EasyBI,
Agile Certified Senior Project Manager
7+ years’ experience in Project Management within Outsourcing / Product Development
9+ years’ overall experience in IT industry
Technical background with 3-year experience of software development on Microsoft.NET platform
Experience:
• Experienced in Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience of work with multiple management/development tools (Jira, Redmine, Confluence, Crucible, GitLab, EasyBI, Zephyr, Visual Studio)
• Time- and scope-based release planning
• Managing fixed-budget and fixed-scope projects
• Continuous product delivery
• Budgeting
• Experience in presales
• Application of different estimation techniques
• Facilitation of producing technical, functional and business requirements
• Resource management
• Calculation of team performance metrics
• Risk management
• Expectations Management
• Process standardization on the department/company level
• Building up procedures of cross-team collaboration
• Product Ownership experience
• Building and coaching Agile Teams
• Holding training courses on technical and management topics
Personality:
• Strong leadership skills
• Strategic thinking
• Decision making and problem solving skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Flexibility and adaptability to changes
• Excellent time management and self-management skills
• Efficiency under pressure, focus on "meet deadlines with given resources"
Scrum Master @ From December 2015 to Present (1 month) UkraineAgile Project Manager @ Leading development of base application of Mobile & Web Services Unit
Team of 20 members: 8 Developers, 2 BAs, 3 Automation QA, 7 Manual QA divided into 3 independent teams
Responsibilities:
• Building up Agile process within the team
• Building and maintaining predictable and regular product delivery according to business priorities
• Standardization of cross-team collaboration within department and company
• Profound documentation
• Regular reporting to management
• Building up positive team mood and work atmosphere
• Knowledge sharing
Main achievements:
Delivery:
- Fixed-time sprints with stable product release after each iteration
Requirements processing:
- Product Owner involvement into Backlog Refinement process
- Agile approach for story-writing, Given/When/Then Technic
Internal team communication
- Defined internal roles, division of product to 3 team - making the small teams we’ve achieved more control and responsibility, focus on smaller amount of tasks and readiness for commitment in delivery.
- Introducing internal tool for efficient team communication
- Clear and Easy development process in Jira
Planning:
- Setting up estimation process in Story Points
QA Automation:
- Defined automation coverage growth procedure, automation planning
- Internal program for Manual QA to become automation
Cross-team collaboration:
- Support process - defining tools & approaches for maintenance of older versions
Reporting:
- Set up personal reporting to management using Jira Agile and EasyBI tools
Knowledge sharing
- Held several training and knowledge sharing sessions within department/company
- Organized training held by team members From April 2015 to November 2015 (8 months) Project Manager at Custom Development Unit, Agile Group Leader @ Took 2 Roles inside Delivery Department: Leading Agile Group and being Project Manager
Agile Group Leader
Responsibilities:
- Defining work priorities for Agile Group
- Deep project’s analysis
- Leading knowledge sharing sessions
- Leading training sessions
- Review of procedures
Main achievements:
Processes Definition
- Defining "work with Requirements" flow
- Defining Jira management processes
- Defining Reporting Processes
- Defining Presales process
- Setting up Agile processes
Documentation
- Providing Templates for Reporting
- Providing presales documents
- From the side of Control:
- Review of process in teams
- Audits
- Active participation and knowledge sharing sessions
- Running Root Cause Analysis Sessions, preparing of output
Responsibilities on a position of Project Manager
• Managing project delivery on a daily basis, running a Scrum/Kanban Process
• Allocating project resources required for successful delivery
• Managing distributed teams
• Leading Planning, Daily, Retrospective and Review meetings
• Scope clarification and prioritization
• Preparation of backlogs
• Providing requirements and acceptance criteria
• Organizing of testing and delivery process
• Calculation of team performance metrics
• Reporting delivery progress to Customers
• Preparing official proposal documents on pre-sale stage
• Full support of pre-sales activities from first contact to contract sign state
• Building up positive Team mood and work atmosphere
• Leading Client’s Workshops
• Preparing proposals and budgeting
• Leading estimation sessions
• Defining project risks and mitigation plans
• Preparing communication plans
• Coaching teams
• Organizing process of product releases From May 2011 to April 2015 (4 years) Project Manager @ Managing of small teams of 2-3 developers on projects of Ukrainian client’s. Setting up Scrum on corporate level.
• Setting up Scrum on corporate level
• Managing teams based on distributed locations
• Fixed budget and fixed scope projects
• Writing applications specifications and requirements From October 2010 to May 2011 (8 months) Project Manager @ Product Company. Manage programmers team (8 persons), writing the technical documentation for programmers. Developing new projects documentation.
90% of time - waterfall methodology
• Organizing development process on Ruby-on-Rails
• Managing the operation activities on large internet website with 50 000 unique users daily audience
• Making the budget plan for yearly activities
• Release planning for 5 different products
• Operating end users’ feedback and correcting product development based on them
• Approving functionality with top-management and commitment to development timeframe From June 2007 to May 2010 (3 years)
Master of Finance, Financial Controlling, Master @ Kyiv National Economic University From 2004 to 2010 High school @ Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium #109 From 1995 to 2004 Evgeniy Labunskiy is skilled in: .NET, ASP.NET MVC, MySQL, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Agile Project Management, JIRA, Software Project Management, Web Development, JavaScript, jQuery, Web Project Management, Web Applications, CSS, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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