Iain McKenna
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Iain is an award winning trainer, coach and practitioner who has successfully used Scrum together with other agile and lean frameworks over a number of years both in product and project delivery, project recovery and greenfield projects. Iain has also been extremely successful in helping many organisations adopt or improve their use of Scrum including United Health, BBC, Cisco and BSkyB.
Having worked with IT for over 40 years, Iain has a wealth of experience ranging from operations, analysis, testing, software engineering, project and programme mamagement through to IT Leadership. Iain has also been a customer and user of many software products over the years. This breadth of experience helps Iain to work with teams to build high quality products that meet the needs of all stakeholders, often exceeding expectations through innovation and focus on value and eliminating waste.
Amongst Iain's achievements are the setting up of a completely new Scrum team that delivered a £1M/year saving to the NHS after just 4 weeks development of a new product; helping one of the UK's largest telcos, with a software delivery team of over 250 people, to transform the way they work to become more adaptive, effective, and resilient after just 6 months - reducing major production issues by 98%, allowing the teams to focus on delivering new capabilities to the business.
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- Courses taught: 483
- Trainer since: 2012
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Career history
- 2004-09-01 - 2005-08-31 - Fitness First (Group Business Systems Manager and ScrumMaster)
- 2005-09-05 - 2007-09-28 - AOL (LLU Systems Lead ScrumMaster)
- 2007-10-22 - 2009-05-29 - BSkyB (Interim Head of Software Engineering)
- 2009-09-14 - 2010-04-16 - United Health UK (Agile Consultant and ScrumMaster)
- 2010-04-19 - 2010-08-27 - BBC (Interim Technical Director)
- 2010-09-13 - 2011-09-30 - United Health (ScrumMaster)
- 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-25 - Cisco (Scrum Trainer)
- 2011-10-03 - 2012-02-29 - OptumInsight (Agile Consultant and Trainer)
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- Live Online
- Live Online + Self-Paced
- In-Person
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