Biography
Angela Boardman is a highly accomplished technology leader with Agile project delivery expertise, Agile Coaching as part of an enterprise transformation, and an extensive development background.
• Agile Lead/Coach with Distributed Team Management – Extensive experience working remotely and effectively running projects with team members distributed across multiple time zones. Successful facilitation of Agile/SCRUM practices & ceremonies and fostering team cohesion. High-performing teams consistently deliver product releases resulting in customer delight.
• Facilitator with outstanding ability to collaborate with executives, unit leaders, and both technical and non-technical teams. Strong team building and leadership skills.
• Effectively works with teams to identify and remove impediments allowing the team to focus on successful Sprint delivery.
• Agile change agent - training expertise, conduct workshops, SAFe SPC certified to train aspiring SAFe Agilists and Practitioners.
• Excellent communication skills with technical, non-technical, and C-level audiences.
• Team building and leadership skills, striving to help individuals and teams realize and reach their potential.
• Champion to encourage implementation of DevOps practices (automate, automate, automate!) into software development processes. Tools/Processes: Jenkins/Hudson; LiquiBase; Vagrant; custom shell scripts.
• 15+ year development background provides the ability to understand and knowledgeably participate in design sessions, technical discussions, code reviews, technical issues, etc.
Work experience
YRC Freight (client engagement), Enterprise Agile Coach
December 2015 - Present, Overland Park, Kansas, US
Responsibilities are a combination of helping to stand up a new Supportive (vs directive) PMO, as well as team coaching both application development and infrastructure/architecture teams.
PMO responsibilities:
o Work with Executive IT Leadership to target where Agile/LEAN processes can be applied, then work with select team members on how to best integrate those practices.
o Create and deliver training – Agile End-To-End, Scrum Master Bootcamp, Product Owner Training, JIRA User training
o Identify process/cultural/mindset challenges to a successful Agile Transformation and bring awareness and recommendations to the executive team.
Coaching Teams:
o Introduce all aspects of Agile/SCRUM to traditional IT development teams
o Introduce Agile/Kanban to Infrastructure/Architechture teams
o New concepts/activities practiced include: visioning, scaled release planning, relative sizing, daily stand-ups, sprinting, time-boxed development, dependency identification and resolution, demos, and retrospectives.
o Coaching provided through a combination of classroom training, modeling and mentoring on projects-in-progress, and additional just-in-time training on topics as needed.
o Learning is encouraged by asking power questions versus giving the answers.
o Serve teams in the best way possible to see their entry into Agile is a successful and positive experience, many of whom are reluctant to change.