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Kevin Shine

Kevin Shine

South Africa,Johannesburg

My certifications

Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Title: Team Agile Coach

I started working with scrum in 2002 as a developer on a team that was implementing scrum practices, this is when I was first introducted to TDD, pair programming and user stories. I worked as a Java developer from 2002 to 2008 using xp practices and agile. In 2008 I started working as a Java team lead for Discovery(PruProtect). Discovery used waterfall to deliver IT projects and as a technical team I decided to run work from the team level using scrum. Although all upstream work was waterfall, we still had great success and delivery dates became more predictable. As the scrum framework was working so well, we continued with this model for a few years. Eventually we had all development teams using scrum to deliver projects but found that improving past a certain point required wider company adoption. We then started running the portfolio planning in an agile fashion. Although some problems still existed it was an amazing experience to take a waterfall company and convert them to agile and scrum. 

In 2015 I left Disvoery to grow my scrum skills and joined Kaizania as an agile coach using SAFe to roll out large scale agile adoption. 

In 2017 I moved to Ireland and decided to move back to the team level and focus more on agile and scrum at a team level. 

 

 

 

 

 

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2018-05-01 - present - Fenergo (Agile Team Coach)
    • 1998-05-01 - 1998-08-31 - Bytes Technology Group (SQL Developer)
    • 1998-09-01 - 1999-08-31 - TSF/BITTS Technology (Junior VB Developer)
    • 1999-05-01 - 2002-03-31 - Datagate Software (VB Developer)
    • 2002-04-01 - 2004-09-30 - Osiris Trading (Java Developer)
    • 2004-11-01 - 2005-04-30 - FlexTronics (Java Developer)
    • 2005-06-01 - 2006-05-31 - Siemens Business Solutions (Senior Java Developer)
    • 2006-06-01 - 2007-04-30 - PruProtect (Senior Java Developer)
    • 2008-01-01 - 2009-12-31 - PruProtect (Systems Analyst/ Java Team Lead)
    • 2010-02-01 - 2015-06-30 - VitalityLife (Development Manager / Scrum Master)
    • 2015-07-01 - 2017-05-30 - Kaizania Academies (Agile Coach)
    • 2017-06-01 - 2018-04-01 - Liberty Information Technology (Scrum Master )