Richard Henning

Richard Henning is an experienced Agile Coach and Agile Project Management professional with over 17 years experience in IT and business environments, gained in large organisations. This experience covers organisations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and South Africa. 

Richard leads Agile teams with a focus on coaching and transformation. He has led large program teams of 60+ people at NBN across Sydney and Melbourne and has successfully ensured these teams are demonstrating the Agile fundamental practices and behaviours.  He works continuously to reduce waste in enterprise wide services to enable greater autonomy for teams.

Key Skills

• Agile workshops and ceremony facilitation.
• Defining Agile Adoption dashboards – activities and measurement.
• Business engagement – leading business teams through the Agile adoption process, building product backlogs and learning from delivery.
• Coach and Scrum Master - Kanban, Scrum, SAFe.
• Continuous improvement - ensuring opportunities are embedded into delivery cadence.
• Pragmatic adoption – Large Organisation experience.
• Cert IV Training and Assessment - training Business owners, scrum masters and teams in the Agile principles and values.

Key Achievements

• Agile Coach for the Network Construction IT team of over 60 team members at NBN.
• Implemented the Scrum Framework at Transfield Services.
• Successfully driven the acceptance of Agile at Allianz Australia.
• Established the Agile focused Project Delivery centre within the technology division at Veda.
• Established the NSW Agile Community of Practice at SMS.
• Created the Agile training material for SMS customers, and delivered the training to teams and managersInvited to present at the 2010 Agile Australia conference on the topic ‘Adoption of Agile in Large Institutions’

Professional Background:

• Leading SAFe (SA)
• IC Agile Certified Agile Project Manager (IC-APM)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Professional (CSP)
• PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Prince Australia Certified Prince 2 Practitioner
• Diploma General Insurance