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Registration: 24.03.2022

Natalia Khorenko

Specialization: Scrum Master
— I am a PSM II / KSD certified Scrum Master & Agile Coach with 5+ years of experience in coaching, training and mentoring cross-functional teams (both software development and non-technology) applying Scrum, SAFe and Kanban. I have taken part in several Agile transformations, working with both development teams and management, helping companies, programs and teams to go through business processes transformation and become more Agile and mature. My main goal as an Agile coach is to help development teams deliver high-quality products on-time while preserving collaboration between team members and business, and to help the entire organization to reach business agility. — I am also an experienced trainer who truly believes that sharing knowledge and experience is an important part of community improving and developing.
— I am a PSM II / KSD certified Scrum Master & Agile Coach with 5+ years of experience in coaching, training and mentoring cross-functional teams (both software development and non-technology) applying Scrum, SAFe and Kanban. I have taken part in several Agile transformations, working with both development teams and management, helping companies, programs and teams to go through business processes transformation and become more Agile and mature. My main goal as an Agile coach is to help development teams deliver high-quality products on-time while preserving collaboration between team members and business, and to help the entire organization to reach business agility. — I am also an experienced trainer who truly believes that sharing knowledge and experience is an important part of community improving and developing.

Portfolio

Sravni.ru

At the command level: ● Running commands, building processes to achieve results. ● Development of the practice of sharing knowledge and experience between teams. ● Training teams in the processes of decomposition and evaluation of tasks, assistance in identifying dependencies with other teams. ● Facilitating both scrum events and other meetings. ● Elimination of obstacles faced by the team, elimination of obstacles. ● Work in tandem with RO (product practices, setting goals, prioritizing unfulfilled tasks, bringing the value of tasks to the development team). At the organization level: ● Tracking the dynamics of the implementation of OKR practices and setting goals by teams. ● Support of the team and the RO in the correct formulation of the OKR and in the selection of such key results , the progress of which can be regularly measured using Assistance in building end-to-end processes in the company (dependency management, determination and tracking of delivery indicators, changing personnel management practices, etc.). ● Organization of trainings, seminars and master classes. Progress: ● Assembled and re-launched 4 product teams (formulation of product vision and strategy, agreement team, stakeholder map, Ministry of Defense, DoR). ● Together with the team implemented a zero bug policy, the number of bugs in the backlog decreased by 80%, the average bug lifetime decreased to 1.5 sprints. ● Reduced the waiting time for tasks by 30%. ● Launched a data-based approach to the implementation of functions: definition of key indicators, analysis before launch / after launch. ● Launched several professional communities within the company, established the process of knowledge exchange.

Accenture

● Implementation of a flexible methodology in the bank's streams. ● Facilitation of meetings and seminars. ● Adaptation and implementation of a unified software production process. ● Preparation of reports about implementation progress and teams metrics. ● Increase the productivity of teams and transparency of their work. ● Coaching teams in the field of flexible methodologies and a new production process. ● Organization of trainings for scrum masters and development teams members. Achievements: ● Built an end-to-end task monitoring system for 30+ teams, visualized the process of their work. ● Conducted more than 20 internal agile trainings for teams members. ● Trained and prepared more than 25 scrum masters for PSM I certification. ● Mentored 2 Product owners and 4 scrum masters.

Alfa-Bank

As a scrum master, led one it-team (9 people) and a stream (Client Path) of about 70 people. Two more it-teams were on periodic support on request. ● Creating conditions when the Scrum-team understands the goals, scope of work and subject area as best as possible. ● Assistance to the Product Owner in finding the most effective techniques for managing the backlog, training on various ways of prioritization. ● Removing obstacles that hinder the progress of the development team (including working at the level of the scrum community and the organization at large). ● Training the development team in those parts of the organization where Scrum is not yet fully understood and accepted, conducting trainings and master classes. ● Coordination and facilitation of Scrum events if necessary, as well as other meetings on request. ● Conducting personal coaching with team members. ● Team mentoring.

Skills

Confluence
Google Jamboard
Jira
Kaiten
Miro
Mural
Slack
Trello

Work experience

Scrum Master
since 12.2021 - Till the present day |Roche
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
What am I doing as a Scrum Master: ● Support self-organization in Teams using Scrum. ● Run workshops with Design Thinking tools usage in Teams. ● OKR Support & Coaching. ● Support in new Team formation, kick-offs, ways of working refinement & tuning. ● Facilitation of multigroups retrospectives and strategic sessions. ● Communities of Practice enablement. ● Bring Network & Communities Expertise. ● Training & Mentoring in different areas. ● Project Management support. ● Co-creation with Customers enablement. What I build in others: ● Agile Mindsets & Behaviors. ● Outcome-Based Planning Capabilities. ● Facilitation capabilities. ● Project Management capabilities. ● Customer centricity approach. ● Foundations of teamwork. ● Ability to give timely feedback. ● Obsession of checking with the customer whether we create value.
Scrum Master
03.2021 - 12.2021 |Sravni.ru
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
At the command level: ● Running commands, building processes to achieve results. ● Development of the practice of sharing knowledge and experience between teams. ● Training teams in the processes of decomposition and evaluation of tasks, assistance in identifying dependencies with other teams. ● Facilitating both scrum events and other meetings. ● Elimination of obstacles faced by the team, elimination of obstacles. ● Work in tandem with RO (product practices, setting goals, prioritizing unfulfilled tasks, bringing the value of tasks to the development team). At the organization level: ● Tracking the dynamics of the implementation of OKR practices and setting goals by teams. ● Support of the team and the RO in the correct formulation of the OKR and in the selection of such key results , the progress of which can be regularly measured using Assistance in building end-to-end processes in the company (dependency management, determination and tracking of delivery indicators, changing personnel management practices, etc.). ● Organization of trainings, seminars and master classes. Progress: ● Assembled and re-launched 4 product teams (formulation of product vision and strategy, agreement team, stakeholder map, Ministry of Defense, DoR). ● Together with the team implemented a zero bug policy, the number of bugs in the backlog decreased by 80%, the average bug lifetime decreased to 1.5 sprints. ● Reduced the waiting time for tasks by 30%. ● Launched a data-based approach to the implementation of functions: definition of key indicators, analysis before launch / after launch. ● Launched several professional communities within the company, established the process of knowledge exchange.
Agile Coach (bank project)
09.2020 - 03.2021 |Accenture
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
● Implementation of a flexible methodology in the bank's streams. ● Facilitation of meetings and seminars. ● Adaptation and implementation of a unified software production process. ● Preparation of reports about implementation progress and teams metrics. ● Increase the productivity of teams and transparency of their work. ● Coaching teams in the field of flexible methodologies and a new production process. ● Organization of trainings for scrum masters and development teams members. Achievements: ● Built an end-to-end task monitoring system for 30+ teams, visualized the process of their work. ● Conducted more than 20 internal agile trainings for teams members. ● Trained and prepared more than 25 scrum masters for PSM I certification. ● Mentored 2 Product owners and 4 scrum masters.
Scrum Master of the MTS BigData division
03.2019 - 09.2020 |Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
● Leading three teams - two of them work on scrum and one – on kanban. ● Reorganizing the work of one large team, dividing it into two. Starting work on scrum and kanban. ● Assisting the team in working with the product, defining its boundaries, establishing interaction with customers. Separation of product development from service tasks. ● Assistance to the Product Owner with the formation of the product vision, together with the team – VSM construction. ● Building planning processes, implementing PBR practices, drafting the first editions of DoD and DoR.
Scrum-master
04.2018 - 03.2019 |Alfa-Bank
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
As a scrum master, led one it-team (9 people) and a stream (Client Path) of about 70 people. Two more it-teams were on periodic support on request. ● Creating conditions when the Scrum-team understands the goals, scope of work and subject area as best as possible. ● Assistance to the Product Owner in finding the most effective techniques for managing the backlog, training on various ways of prioritization. ● Removing obstacles that hinder the progress of the development team (including working at the level of the scrum community and the organization at large). ● Training the development team in those parts of the organization where Scrum is not yet fully understood and accepted, conducting trainings and master classes. ● Coordination and facilitation of Scrum events if necessary, as well as other meetings on request. ● Conducting personal coaching with team members. ● Team mentoring.
Project Manager / Scrum-master
06.2014 - 07.2018 |Mann, Ivanov & Ferber
Trello, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Google Jamboard, Kaiten
From 2014 to 2017, was engaged in coordinating and managing projects for the production of printed books (non-fiction, topics: business, self-development, creativity), and in 2017 has launched the own product - audiobooks: ● Saw the transformation of the company from a traditional system with a vertical and functional departments closed to themselves, into an effective and flexible cross-functional team. ● Managed a cross-functional prepress preparation team (editors, proofreaders, illustrators, designers, prepress). ● Tried the role of a Product Owner, but preferred to return to the role of a scrum master, but the picture of the agile world has become much more complete. ● Facilitated team and multi-team meetings, Scrum events, helped colleagues in solving controversial issues. ● In practice realized the full benefits of Scrum metrics: velocity charts and task combustion schedules have become daily tools of work. ● Have mastered and evaluated the cool product approaches of story mapping, user stories, JTDB, HADI and many others. ● Trained and involved every new member of the team. ● Managed the project budget. ● Controlled risks.

Educational background

Philosophy (Bachelor’s Degree)
Till 2013
Lomonosov Moscow State University

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateSlovakianIntermediate