Filip Popovic

There were several distributed scrum teams across Europe that lacked cohesiveness and effective workflow. I provided structure and leadership through an atmosphere of accountability, transparency, teamwork, and a focus on continuous improvements to how the team gets work done and addresses potential obstacles to success. As a result of my work, the teams both increased and stabilized their velocity and improved estimates, which improved their morale and worked efficacy and their reputations with the stakeholders they served.

I worked with the PMO on process analysis, pain point identification, and process enhancement, and I contributed to the entire product management process, including planning and workshop facilitation, backlog planning and feature prioritization, roadmap development, scrum of scrums, and release management and report delivery, as well as coaching clients on agile and scrum topics to ensure continued success.

As the project controller and manager within the industrial refurbishment program of an auto factory—a project with a total investment of over a billion euros—I monitored the scope, schedule, and cost of the various projects to keep them within their improved baseline, as well as reported progress to stakeholders. I contributed to verifying standards and legislation compliance and ensured that technical documentation was complete and accurate.

As the scrum master of a distributed scrum team, I developed a universal destination server that can scan and sort both TNT and FedEx barcodes.

I organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and more. My work also included teaching the team to create clear and concise epics and stories, coaching them on core Agile principles, and facilitating a scrum of scrums for offshore teams based in India. I worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and assisted in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, and task definition. Lastly, I helped develop and maintain the team standards, tools, and best practices.

I managed over 16 developers and testers, over two scrum teams, and three PIs, delivering the most valuable product features:

• Biomass monitoring and variable rate application (VRA)
• Field import
• Nutrition plan
• Users and farm management
• Weather

• Coordinated and facilitated program increment (PI) planning following SAFe framework guidelines.
• Facilitated squad ceremonies and played a key role in creating and maintaining artifacts.
• Guided the team towards achieving high performance within the program.
• Promoted and supported the Agile process both within the squad and externally.