Biography
Tony Ponton
Is a Lean & Agile Coach,Trainer,Certified Scrum Master,Certified Scrum Product Owner & Survivor of Alistair Cockburn's advanced agile course,thought provoker& theagilerevolution.com podcast host. Published member of the Who Is Agile Australia and New Zealand book.
I have fulfilled a number of diverse roles:
They have included:
- Agile/Lean Coach
- Principal Lean Coach
- Agile Coach
- Scrum Master
- Trainer
- Team Leader
- Tester
- Product Manager
- Process Specialist
- Implementation coordinator
- IT Business Analyst
Currently I am operating in the role of Agile/Lean Coach
Specialties:• Agile Methodologies
• Agile Project Management
• Agile Coaching
• Lean Coaching
• Leadership Development
• Strategic Thinking
• Project Portfolio Management
• Organisational Effectiveness
• Business Transformation
• Scrum, Scrum Master , Product Owner
• Business Analysis
• Facilitation
• Change Management
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Training
• Test Driven Development
• Testing Methodologies
• Lean
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Problem Solving
Work experience
Suncorp, Lean/Agile Coach
January 2003 - Present, Brisbane , Queensland , AU
I have fulfilled a number of diverse agile roles within Suncorp.
Business Analyst
Scrum Master ( iteration manager)
Agile coach
Agile Lean coach
Tester
Currently I am an Agile and Lean Delivery Coach
Responsible for coaching, mentoring, advising, facilitating, training and cultural transformation.
Not just implementation of Scrum within a software development team ,working towards a way of working that's applied across all areas of the organisation. I have experience and understand a number of Agile methods besides Scrum , such as Crystal, Feature Driven Development, eXtreme Programming, Kanban, Lean and DevOps.