Curriculum Vitae
Management and Agile Consultant
Alyona has been working in software development for over 15 years as delivery manager, scrum master, agile consultant. Her career path started as an employee at the Support Department and went on as Delivery Manager and Head of Office. Her experience includes working for outsourcing, outstaffing, and product IT companies.
Besides managing projects and people, she was developing education systems. Alyona holds training events and coaching on flexible methodologies of development, management, motivation and career growth. Among other achievements, Alyona founded the Kyiv branch of an outsourcing company. For the past 5 years, she has been keen on Agile transformation and consulting management, Scrum implementation, Kanban frameworks and adapting them to the business limitations of companies. She works with the companies on implementing Agile approach, works on creating a SAFe Ukraine community, hosts ITKaiZenClub meetings, is a spokesperson at the conferences dedicated to project management, business analysis, and product management.
She is a certified Scrum Master, LeSS Practitioner, Product Owner, Scram at Scale and since 2016 — SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC).
Skills
- Software development teams scaling
- Agile executive development
- Lean-Agile Transformation
- Assessments
- Scrum & Kanban Coaching
- Portfolio Management
Project-related expertise (selection)
International CPA Advertising Platform
- SAFe implementation and adjusting to company’s constraints
- Support of PI planning
- Scrum and Kanban training events and implementation
- Established portfolio level
- Scrum Masters’ and Product Owners’ coaching
Payment System for German Market
- Discovering optimal release cadences with business limitations in mind (very high security requirements and long testing process)
- Product requirements systematization, coaching in product vision creation
- SAFe implementation and adjusting to company’s constraints
- Support of PI planning
International Sports Betting Platform
- Implemented Agile and Scrum best-practices on team level
- Improved communications between the teams and 3rd party vendors
- Settled up cross-team dependency management process
- Improved teams’ engagement
International Artificial Intelligence based solutions for automotive:
- Global product vision was formalized, prioritization technique established
- Decreased Time to Market
- Program Execution, issue solving and dependency tracking improved
- Transparency of development teams loading for C-level established
- SAFe implementation and adjusting to company’s constraints
- Support of PI planning
- Scrum Masters’ and Product Owners’ coaching
Cloud Management Platform for the US market
- Increased teams productivity
- Reduced cycle time from 45 days to 21 days
- Improved cooperation between teams
- Re-organized product management team, hired/promoted new Product Owners
- Focus on business needs instead of technical excellence established
- Scrum Masters’ and Product Owners’ coaching
Ukrainian CPA Advertising Platform
- Portfolio level was established
- The estimation of main products backlogs, future teams’ composition approved with C-Level
- The scaling scenarios with budgets were calculated
- New PO hired
- Scrum Masters’ and Product Owners’ coaching
Largest Ukrainian wine importer
- Scrum best practices implemented in the marketing team
- Established teamwork with project and operational tasks
- Scrum Masters’ and Product Owners’ coaching
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