Hello, I'm Ana Diegues.
Details
- Professional CategoryGovernance & Board Management
- Location
- Years of Relevant Experience15-20 years
- Seniority LevelExecutive
- Consulting Rate (Hourly)175
Experience
Agile Delivery Lead
Kaizen GamingApril 2024 - Current• Driving Agile Transformation & Delivery: I lead the agile transformation for three Scrum-based engineering teams,
totaling over 30 individuals, to optimize project delivery for the My Account product line.
• Facilitating Key Agile Ceremonies: I expertly facilitate all Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups,
sprint reviews, and retrospectives. My focus is ensuring these events are productive and consistently drive a culture of
continuous improvement.
• Serving as a Servant-Leader & Liaison: I serve as a critical liaison between engineering teams and diverse stakeholders,
including Product Owners and Business Units. I help translate complex business needs into clear, actionable technical
objectives while cultivating strong, collaborative relationships across departments.
• Strategically Removing Impediments: I proactively identify and eliminate technical and organizational impediments,
providing the necessary support and resources for teams to maintain high velocity and consistently deliver high-quality
solutions.
• Empowering and Coaching Teams: I act as an Agile coach and mentor, empowering my teams to embrace selforganization,
enhance accountability, and significantly improve their overall efficiency.
• Leading Continuous Improvement: I lead continuous process improvement efforts through retrospectives and Kaizen,
which include designing and implementing new workflows to effectively manage complex technical dependencies between
teams.
• Key projects and processes I worked/I'm working on: Natives development as a service (for the hole tribe) - gains:
roadmap and priorities alignment, improvement on the reliability, decrease on unplanned work, product increment more
solid and traceable and improved customer journey. Technical roadmap implementation - process to create, manage and
release technical items - gains: team morale up, technical evolution of the solutions, reduction on tech debt.
Implementation of predictability and planning with Monte Carlo system (powered by Actionable Agile) - gains: accuracy on
project/features planning and roadmap planning. Metrics measurement and tracking - gains: new tools and metrics
implemented to improve the teams management. Team morale assessment - gains: teams more motivated and aligned
with the company's strategy.
Industry
- Technology, Information and Media
Specific Jurisdictions That I'm Qualified In or Can Cover
Portugal: Porto
Language(s)
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
I am interested in
- Professional / Business Networking
- Career Opportunities
- Providing Services based on my Expertise