Andrew Bailey

An Energetic and Empathic certified servant leader with over 20 years’ experience (10 within agile frameworks and 3 at scale) in delivering enterprise projects across Civil Aero, Energy, Finance, Government, Education and Healthcare sectors.

I have been fortunate to have real-world experience in most areas of the software lifecycle, giving me a unique overall appreciation of all roles and responsibilities from conception through to in-service operations. I have seen various frameworks, platforms and methodologies along this journey. I have been a Developer, an Architect, an Agile Scrum Master / Delivery Manager, Release Train Engineer, a senior level Director and Head of Dev/Ops. I have had, hands on experience of Agile practices throughout all my roles as a practitioner, servant leader, coach, portfolio management and delivery into service. From an agile at scale perspective, I have practical experience at all levels, including running large scale organisational change programs through the adaptation/adoption and implementation of SAFe.

I first came across the concepts of Agile in 2005 and instantly connected with the ethos and mindset. Agile is not a methodology and is not a one size fits all solution for organisations. Throughout my career, I have

• Adapted practices to best suite individuals, teams and organisations current operating models/capabilities and needs.
• Educated internal and external stakeholders on adoption and how important they are to it.
• Broken down departmental barriers, improved collaboration and built from scratch new cultures and scalable collaborative teams.
• Facilitated small (1 person) to large groups (200+) on Agility and lead improvement workshops.
• Provided training material

The way for me to do this, is to get involved at all levels and fully understand/appreciate current working practices, aspirations and capabilities. I have

• Actively been involved with people, discovering and helping/mentoring them on their individual needs.
• Created forums, meetings and sessions to drive out team collaboration, cross training, desires and aspirations. After all they are the experts.
• Designed roadmaps and maturity assessments to enable organisational change/ team level change and provided practical coaching/measurement to enable it.
• Designed and implemented workflow and platforms to enable
  • Release on Demand capability through automated delivery and integration platforms.
  • Quality First strategies through Test Driven Development and automated test suites throughout the pipeline.

I understand the “perfect world” solution and work to find pragmatic achievable and more importantly relevant adoption of principles and best practice to ensure that value is delivered whilst incrementally improving. Sometimes Agile isn’t the answer and hybrid models can provide the best solution. Through coaching transparency, openness goal setting and continuous improvement. I constantly strive to enable individuals and teams to become self-empowered, pulling together to create personal, team and Company growth.

Throughout my career, I have   

• At any one time, Lead between one and 40 Teams.
• Sought to find growth opportunities, from both technical and business perspectives.
• Enjoyed seeing individuals and teams grow into their true potentials.
• Become an accomplished Microsoft stack developer, technologist and Agile leader.

I now share my end to end knowledge and experiences within Agile delivery as a technical leader/coach.

I am passionate about all roles in this domain and am extremely happy to provide my services at all levels in all sectors.