Miloš Antonijević
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal member since August 23, 2021
Milos has worked in IT for 15+ years, starting in software quality before transitioning into leadership and management. His diverse experiences have shaped a people-centric leadership style driven by meaningful outcomes and systemic optimizations. Milos applies expertise from various experiences, training, and coaching to deliver value at all levels. As an advocate for modern management approaches, he combines them to address the complexities of today’s businesses.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Transformation
- Jira Administrator
- Management
- Management 3.0
- Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
- Process Design
- Scrum
Work Experience
Engineering Manager | Team Lead
Ibis Solutions
- Organized and optimized team performance, steering them toward more agile working methods.
- Salvaged a delayed project with high customer churn toward better structure and predictability.
- Improved team dynamics through mitigating interpersonal conflicts and issues.
Delivery Manager
Hooloovoo
- Coached team leaders into implementing agile processes and metrics for the benefit of the teams.
- Held workshops for optimizing meetings, resulting in joint agreements and improved meeting etiquette across the board.
- Proposed custom goal-setting framework on the organization level, which was adopted, implemented, and improved over quarters.
- Contributed to overhauling the salary and performance review processes, which resulted in greater transparency, understanding, and employee satisfaction.
Senior Project Manager
Deversity
- Joined the organization with the idea to take over work with their biggest client, optimize processes and SDLC. Through collaboration with clients' heads of departments, we addressed process challenges like motivation and Scrum team tweaks.
- Worked in a coaching capacity with owners of the organization. My contribution was setting up a career progression path and optimization of their interactions with employees.
- Sorted out and kicked off an Agile-style project that has been stuck for six months with the client. It was done more than half-way before I left the organization.
Engineering Manager
LearnUpon
- Refocused Agile Guild's efforts from operational to tactical processes.
- Kicked off a QualityOps team, a group in charge of setting quality standards for the product, championing best quality practices, and upskilling QA team members.
- Implemented an Agile mindset and perspective to decisions made in the organization leadership group.
Lead Scrum Master
LearnUpon
- Set up and managed an Agile guild through hiring and defining roles, processes, team interactions, and career growth plans. The Agile guild, who charge of Agile transformation, is currently one of the best-organized groups in the organization.
- Introduced Scrum to multiple teams. They became teams with the highest level of Agile maturity and have become self-sufficient with a deep commitment to customer-centric outcomes. They also create software of the highest quality.
- Collaborated with middle and C-level management on understanding and adapting their practices to support Agile transformation. As a result, alignment was created across the organization's vertical in the engineering department.
QA Manager
LearnUpon
- Led initiatives and set up the groundwork for creating a cross-functional Scrum team from the aspect of QA engineers' integration in the team.
- Defined multiple quality KPIs for Scrum teams to have as guidelines at the beginning of our Agile transformation. It helped me gradually move traditional QA practices toward more Agile practices with higher product quality as the end result.
- Led the QA guild's upskilling initiatives around API and penetration testing due to the organizational need for moving QAs toward more technical gray-box practices. As a result, we have highly-trained, multi-skilled testers in our organization.
QA Engineer
LearnUpon
- Set up the QA process in collaboration with other QA team members—established quality metrics, defined testing approaches, and optimized interactions between QA and development.
- Organized and participated in regression testing of the entire web application during global code refactoring.
- Led initiatives contributing to strengthening of the org culture by organizing team buildings, establishing feedback loops, and resolving issues constructively when needed in the early startup phase.
QA Engineer
Allied Testing
- Achieved proficiency in manual software testing—regression, functional, non-functional, and smoke testing.
- Co-coordinated a large regression testing project for Cetera Financial Group, a fintech company.
- Participated in onboarding and upskilling of new team and organization members.
Training and Customer Support
Comtrade
- Built and delivered a web app for the unified voters' list for the Serbian government as part of a team of six. This app is used for all levels of elections in Serbia.
- Trained groups of municipal workers from Serbia to use an app we developed for the Serbian government of the unified voters' list.
- Digitized and refactored stale, missing, and duplicate voter data in the database, ensuring the list of registered voters (6+ million) was the most accurate list in the past several decades.
Project History
Agile Guild Set Up
I kicked off and fully set up an Agile guild which drove the Agile transformation in the organization
Led Multiple Teams to Agile Maturity
Created multiple scrum teams with a high level of agile practice fluency, self-organization, resilience to a fast-changing environment and customer-centric focus.
Agile Adoption by Management
Coached mid and C-level management on adopting an Agile mindset and practices, which resulted in optimized processes and waste reduction in the engineering department.
Education
Master's Degree in General Studies
Police Academy - Belgrade, Serbia
High School Diploma in Biotechnology
School for Chemistry Sciences - Belgrade, Serbia
Certifications
Management 3.0 foundation
Management 3.0
Certified Agile Leadership
Scrum Alliance
Google Project Management Certificate
Coursera
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
Leadership and Management Training
Gi Group
Skills
Tools
Miro, Photoshop CC, Photoshop CS6, Zoom, Slack, Confluence, Jira, SQL, TestRail, TFS, Skype
Paradigms
Scrum, Servant Leadership, Team Development, Agile, Management, Agile Leadership, Change Management, Lean, Agile Product Management, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Penetration Testing, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Kanban, Agile Project Management
Platforms
Windows, MacOS
Other
Exploratory Testing, Team Leadership, Jira Administration, JQL, Team Building, Interviewing, Hiring, Empirical Process Control, Agile Transformation, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Project Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement, Leadership, Jira Administrator, Workshops, Agile Coaching, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Quality Assurance (QA), Scrum Master, Visualization, Test Planning, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Management 3.0, Scaling, Process Design, Value Stream Mapping, People Management, Business Requirements, Documentation, Frameworks, Conflict Resolution, Scrum Coaching, Manual QA, QA Test Plan Management, API Testing, Gray Box Testing, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Mobile App Testing, Agile Software Testing, Strategy, Psychology, Change Leadership, Growth Strategy, User Feedback, Project Consultancy, Organizational Development, Payroll & Benefits, Negotiation, Performance Management, Team Mentoring, Complex Problem Solving, Project Management, IT Projects, Coaching
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