Transforming product & innovation delivery pipeline, processes, team building, etc, for 6 teams (3 technical, 3 non-technical).
Activities:
• Facilitating Scrum events
• Assisting with product backlog refinement
• Radiating Lean-Agile metrics & forecasts
• Planning product rollouts
• Coaching employees & leadership on Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Running my Agile Workshop
Advanced Analysis:
• Monte Carlo simulated forecasts
• Universal Scalability Law (USL)
• Process flow efficiency
* Aging work in progress
Building the Lean-Agile teams building the Next Generation platform for enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. Bleeding-edge tech includes cloud-native, DDD, Actor Model, microservices, reactive systems, CQRS+ES, Azure Service Fabric.
• Hiring, on-boarding, mentoring, coaching, enabling dev teams
• Cultivating humanistic collaborative team culture, driven by autonomy, mastery, purpose, and peer feedback
• Coordinating results-oriented product releases
• Facilitating self-organized, dual-track, Lean-Agile processes
• Established and running Internship Program
• Developed new mobile iPhone chat app for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, with iOS, Objective-C
• Collaborated on web service architecture and design, with REST, JSON, Parse, PubNub
• Contributed to product management and user experience (UX) design
• Facilitated Lean-Agile process for rapid product delivery releases
• Various consulting engagements on product & service delivery, development process, team structure, and QA recruitment
• Speaker & workshop facilitator, for example:
- Lighthouse Labs "Agile Workshop" https://youtu.be/IvSdZ21lsjQ?t=1m05s
- Glass Half Fullstack podcast: "Agile Not Fragile" https://www.dropbox.com/s/az7aye6em9978nd/Podcast_GlassHalfFullstack_Agile_JohnnyHermann.mp3
- Agile Vancouver Meetup "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Vancouver/events/276391663
- Agile Cincinnati Meetup "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" http://www.agilecincy.org/upcomingevents/2021/9/9/september-monthly-meeting-johnny-hermann.html
- Statistical PERT "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" https://mailchi.mp/86e027e248fe/statistical-pert-august-2021-newsletter-10318604
- PM Society "Agile vs. Project Management: Slapdown!" http://www.vcn.bc.ca/pmprof/SeminarN80.html
- Agile Vancouver Meetup "Let's Talk About SAFe" https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Vancouver/events/165669602
- Okanagan co+Lab Coworking BizCamp "Agile Workshop": http://okcolab.com/coworking-bizcamp
- City of Vancouver "Introduction to Agile"
- Various companies
• Participated on Advisory Committee at UBC Continuing Studies for "DevOps Adoption" program: https://cstudies.ubc.ca/programs/devops-adoption-award-achievement
• Functionally managed team of ~10 developers (org 150), contributed to recruitment
• ScrumMaster for 2 teams, ~5 members per team, improved processes including Product Release
• Collaborated on first SAFe Program Planning
• Startup
• Drove continuous-improvement initiatives, including Lean-Agile, Continuous Delivery, Quality Assurance, and Escalation
• Managed product-release projects via Lean-Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban)
• Facilitated hiring, orientation, and career development initiatives, growing R&D team three fold
• Trained technical and business stakeholders on Atlassian tool suite (Jira, GreenHopper, Confluence, Bamboo)
• Introduced Lean-Agile metrics including value delivery in scenario throughput, velocity in story points, lead-time probability distribution, workflow liquidity in issue-pull counts
Advising on continuous process improvement, methodology, team structure, etc., especially Lean-Agile.
• Consistently managed parallel project teams to deliver Vivonet’s SaaS Enterprise Apps products, including Item Harmony (IH), Enterprise Manager (EM) ERP, and EM Next Gen.
• Initiated, championed, and collaborated numerous Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) initiatives, including Product Release Project Lifecycle, Customer Escalation Process, Lean-Agile adoption, and SDLC processes.
(Layoff)
• Concurrently ramped up and managed two separate product teams as Lean-Agile via Scrum, Kanban, and traditional PM techniques – one enhancing the core revenue-driving Message Converters; the other developing “next generation” of Message Archiver platform
• Mentored established and novice ScrumMasters, and initiated and realized numerous processes, tools, and techniques
• Managed multiple simultaneous small- to medium-scale technology/process roll-out projects
• Managed large-scale (500-unit) field beta test, brand new locator product
• Coordinated contract negotiations and technical integrations for Distribution partnership with large US telecom
(Layoff)