Davide Tarasconi
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Toptal member since May 27, 2022
Davide is an organizational consultant, facilitator, trainer, and coach inspired by agile principles. He has guided over 20 companies across the banking, insurance, telecommunications, fashion, AR, and ICT sectors, trained over 700 people on Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, and ran over 30 custom workshops from serious gaming to job crafting, from company-wide retrospectives to prioritization meetings. Davide is known for transforming ineffective scrums to reaching business goals at every sprint.
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Kanban
- Miro
- Remote Work
- Scrum
- Scrum Coaching
- Training
- Workshop Facilitation
Work Experience
Agile Coach, Trainer, and Facilitator
Self-employed
- Trained over 700 people on the basics of Agile (principles, values, complexity), Scrum, and Kanban.
- Coached over 30 teams: Product, service, project, and transversal teams.
- Guided more than 20 companies across different industries: Banking, insurance, telecommunications, fashion, and ICT.
- Designed and ran over 30 custom workshops from serious gaming to job crafting, from company-wide retrospectives to prioritization meetings.
Group Project Manager
DCG
- Led and managed digital projects and teams across DCG’s headquarters in Milan, Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, and Tehran, coordinating global and local clients with the Italian HQ.
- Planned the development of the digital loyalty platform, Punctis.
- Planned the development of a predictive technology platform, Predico.
- Supported pre-sales activities and project proposals for DCG prospects and clients in Dubai, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Italy.
EMEA Digital Project Manager
ViacomCBS
- As an EMEA digital project manager, I led digital projects for major brands across the Viacom network, such as MTV and Comedy Central.
- Focused on tech support, continuous integration of improvements in existing products, and development of new features and new products, whether they were web-based or native apps.
- Guided and participated in projects with teams from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Africa, and the Middle East.
Product & Project Manager
JoinPad
- Joined the team as their first and only product manager with additional responsibilities of balancing between project deliveries and product development in the mobile and AR domain.
- Led the early development of BrainPad, an augmented reality platform for industrial environments as product manager.
- Led several AR-based project for the company's clients.
Software Designer & Project Manager
Reply
- Joined as the first mobile designer and developer of the group, which was entirely focused on web development up until that moment. The main goal was to create the mobile version of TamTamy, a white-label, enterprise social networking platform.
- Created a catalog of mobile patterns and components to be used to develop the mobile version of TamTamy for iOS. Started early research on the Android version too.
- Designed the next product iteration of Gimme5, a mobile app for saving money for one of Reply's clients.
Mobile Product Manager
CommonSense
- Joined CommonSense as the first person dedicated to mobile design and development in the company's early days. Designed and developed the first iPad application a few months after the device was launched in 2010.
- Designed and developed iPhone, iPad, and Android applications, with an overall interest in any mobile or "post-PC" applications to turn the clients' ideas into effective mobile products.
- Worked on dozens of different projects: iPhone only, Android only, both, iPad only. Built several white-label mobile products and helped clients to turn the web-based product into mobile ones.
Software Analyst
The Dot Company
- Served as a software analyst on web-related projects working on the design phase in terms of functional requirements and user interface and interaction requirements.
- Serving the company's goal to offer both ready-to-use solutions and custom-made platforms, my work also consisted in "finding the right tool for the right job."
- Won a grant from the European Union to work on an innovation project about developing a so-called "web 2.0" intranet, using online collaboration tools such as Wikis, blogs, microblogging, and shared calendars.
Business Intelligence and Reporting Specialist
BluLink
- Performed database management and warehousing development with SQL Server 2000; source database analysis, extraction, and transforming e-loading process through SQL Server's Data Transformation Services.
- Developed a business intelligence dashboard with Hyperion Intelligence Suite. Reporting development through MS Reporting Services 2000/2005.
- Customized the reporting architecture of Executrack's ETWeb (human resources management software), including SQL reports, Excel reports, and built-in Quick Reports.
Project History
Agile Scale-up in Banking
Multiple, recurring projects involving the training, kickoff, and coaching of several teams over the span of a few years.
Main activities:
Coached two product teams and facilitated four innovation and coaching teams. Mentored product owners and digital coaches. Coached and facilitated one large cross-functional initiative, from training to kickoff workshops, from discovery to delivery.
Core objectives:
Led the company to a large 2022 scale-up program, with over 1,000 hours of training already booked and dozens of teams ready to start adopting agile practices. Shortened the total lead time of one large, cross-functional project, from discovery to delivery.
Scrum Team Kickoff in Energy and Utilities
A really short project (six weeks) due to budgetary restrictions—interesting and successful nonetheless, with rapid-fire coordination between the US, India, and Italy.
Core objectives:
Aligned Scrum practices between this and another four teams, following corporate guidelines. Coordinated with the product and engineering management stakeholders and two other Agile coaches.
Main activities:
Coached and mentored the newly appointed product owner and scrum master. Advised and facilitated the core Scrum events (planning, daily scrums, product backlog refinements, reviews, and retrospectives). Provided on-the-job training to the entire team on topics such as relative estimation and coming up with a definition of ready, user story writing, and splitting techniques.
Large-scale (four to 40 teams) Agile Transformation
Trained, facilitated, and coached multiple scrum and kanban teams across a large telecommunications organization.
Main Activities:
Trained over 200 people on the basics of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban. Kickstarted more that ten teams, facilitated over a dozen workshops, and coached a dozen different teams. Worked with a group of more than 15 people between scrum masters and agile coaches supporting the transformation.
Core objectives:
Supported a large-scale transformation from four to 40 teams with a total impacted population of over 600 people. Trained and coached all the people involved in the transformation. Coordinated with a team of over a dozen coaches and scrum masters. Built synchronization and coordination mechanisms for Spotify-inspired tribes. Facilitated scrum masters’ chapter meetings.
Spreading Agile Adoption in Insurance
Multiple, recurring projects involving the training, kickoff, and coaching of several teams for a number of years.
Core Objectives:
Trained and workshopped to spread basic knowledge of agile ways of working. Incremented the YoY percentage of teams adopting agile practices. Facilitated internal activities and mentored the coaching and transformation teams.
Main activities:
Mentored newly appointed product owners and scrum masters. Coached several product teams. Provided ad hoc, serious gaming workshops for more than 50 people and facilitated cross-functional groups in stand-alone workshops.
Education
Master's Degree in Economics
The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Reggio Emilia, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Reggio Emilia, Italy
Skills
Tools
Miro, Slack, Trello, Jira, Google Docs, Basecamp, Confluence, Asana, Xcode, Hyperion
Paradigms
Kanban, Scrum, Agile, Lean, Mobile App Design
Platforms
MacOS, iOS, Android
Other
Story Mapping, Workshop Facilitation, Gmail, Chrome, Ideation Workshops, Sprint Retrospectives, Scrum Coaching, Remote Work, Drawing, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Google Drive, Agile Coaching, Training, Product Development, Sprint Planning, Team Mentoring, Team Building, Product Design, Mobile UX, Digital Product Design, Web Project Management, Project Management, Product Management, Eclipse, Objective-C, Java, Mobile UI, Mobile App Development, Mobile Development, Mobile UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Facilitation, Consulting, Organizational Design, Economics, Managerial Economics, Statistics, Databases, Data Mining, Web Programming, Complex Problem Solving, Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Innovation, Simulations, Web Design, Web UX, Web UI, Web Development, Front-end Development, Symfony, IIS SQL Server
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