Curriculum Vitae
Ali is a Transformation Architect with over a decade and a half of proven, hands-on experience in supporting Agile adoption for the benefit of project delivery, product delivery and employee engagement. Supporting teams, programmes, departments and organisations in shaping their own Agile way of working through consulting, coaching and training. To actively move away from the dogmatic (mis)use of Agile practices. Ali is the son of a precision engineer in mechanical engineering and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science (Utrecht University). His thesis (i.e. the use of Agile in highly documentable environments such as the pharmaceutical industry) has been published, presented at academic conferences and used as cited material in academic circles.
Kenntnisse und Themenschwerpunkte
- Agile in Hardware
- Agile Transformation
- SAFe, Scrum, Rapid Learning Cycles, Nexus, LeSS
Training and Project experience
Design, development, and implementation of an Agile Operating Model for multi-competence collaboration
- Launched 5 multi-competence teams of teams (i.e. “Agile Release Trains” in SAFe nomenclature)
- Developed governance structures to maintain control on long term project progression (e.g. Milestone planning, Milestone progress, Tripple Constraint Management, Critical Path Analysis, alternate reporting methods using Jira data from Agile Teams, Frequent supplier alignment structures)
- Developed and hosted bespoke Agile trainings for engineering teams and for internal leadership
- Develop and rollout of a re-usable team and Agile Release Train launch recipe for R&D environments, where ARTs contain competences ranging from Systems Engineering, Domain Architects, to Design Engineers, Validation and Verification, and Industrialization
Developing an Enterprise Global standard for Agile in Hardware trainings and (Agile) Career Development Tracks
- Lead Consultant to set up the first fully hardware-oriented Agile Release Train spanning multiple countries in EMEA
- Lead Consultant in the development of a new standard to upskill Agile Roles (e.g. Career Development Tracks for junior, medior, and senior roles, with corresponding collections of trainings and workshops).
- Lead Consultant to develop Lean Portfolio Management to manage a R&D project budget of ~1.2B across multiple geographies, with experiments to adjust project budgets towards funding product lines comprised of stable Agile teams.
- Development, hosting, and upskilling internal trainers in a company-specific Agile for Hardware training containing company specific examples of iterative development of products, hypothesis-driven engineering (MVP’s), and project progress control (e.g. long term milestone planning vs. short term iterative planning).
Agile Transformation Scaling Approach in a multinational leader in Aviation
- Development and maintenance of an quarterly alignment structure for localized transformation teams, staffed by internal consultants, internal sponsors and leaders, internal coaches, and external coaches
- Co-development, preparation, and hosting of quarterly budget (re-)allocation events, to contrast annual project budgeting cycles.