Bamela P.

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About Bamela P.

9 years’ experience in Portfolio & Project Management and Change Management 7 years’ experience working as an Agile Consultant in Agile transformation projects / Agile Scaling projects Extensive experience working on Strategic, Tactical and Operational level within an organization 7 years’ experience working as Atlassian Business Process Owner / Atlassian Administrator to analyze, design solution, implement, provide support and training on Jira, Jira Service desk and Confluence Jira and Confulence - implementing, providing training and support on knowhow documents on Confluence, to promote, stimulate and educate users Organization wide I am the go-to person, management and other end-users’ approach for brainstorm and advice regarding their Agile needs The linking pin between Business and IT; with end-to-end IT project life cycle experience in Prince2 and Agile environment Experienced working and improving Scaled agility using LeSS and SAFe frameworks for teams Created and facilitated increment planning, PI planning, PI objectives and Program Risks for SAFe Conducted training for different stakeholders from C-level, managers, SM’s, PO’s and Agile teams in Agile values and Agile best practices, resulted in understanding of Agile mindset that contributed to improving team dynamics and team performance Experienced in leading multiple Agile teams distributed over different locations Taught and coached traditional development teams towards a DevOps approach for Agile and Scaling way of working Mentored and coached experienced Agile teams and increased valid learnings resulted in bottom-up intelligence Improved processes and created Agile standards that supported Agile methods Set-up and lead PMO portfolio management for a program across three countries Pro-active and enjoy communicating with different departments and great at stakeholder management Strong in analyzing and enjoy solving challenging problems by thinking outside the box Result driven and capable of persuading the other party Positive and can-do attitude Structured and focused but also very flexible adapting changes A holder of Bachelor’s degree in Commercial economics and Master’s degree in International Business and Management Lived in the UK for 4 years, per 1st June 2016 relocated back home to the Netherlands, Amsterdam. Active visitor of Agile meetups in Amsterdam regarding Scaling, Agile, Lean, OKRs, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban, LeSS, Jira and portfolio topics.