Vasili Shymanski
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Warsaw, Poland
Toptal member since June 3, 2021
A highly committed and value-oriented Agile coach, Vasili's passion is to build powerhouse teams and deliver unparalleled products while embracing Agile principles. He has served different types of teams engaged in product creation—from artificial intelligence to hardware and software development. With a focus on mindset and values, Vasili's coaching has helped Scrum teams achieve optimal performance and deliver outstanding products with the best possible value.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Principal Release Train Engineer (Data/AI/Cloud Areas of Business)
Demant
- Collaborated with ART leadership to ensure high-value increments were delivered.
- Served as a leader for the SMs in ART to ensure continuous improvement and efficiency growth.
- Promoted a culture of experimentation on the ART level.
- Facilitated the removal of the dependencies between ARTs, SAFe events (such as PI planning, I&A, etc.), and the development of the SMs within the organization.
- Ensured that the ART stayed according to the forecasted planned budget.
Scrum Master
Demant
- Established and led basic scaling patterns, enabling seven scrum teams to stably deliver integrated increments—all in one value stream—each sprint.
- Fostered a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement on a scaled level.
- Established impediment escalation processes to enable quicker decision-making and reduction of process waste.
- Collaborated with the leadership team on establishing goals and ways to achieve them.
- Facilitated the transformation using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Coached and mentored other scrum masters by leading by example and conducting individual coaching sessions.
Agile Consultant
QAgile
- Provided agile training and coaching services to QAgile clients.
- Formed and executed Agile transformation strategies.
- Promoted the Scrum framework and developed the Scrum community.
Scrum Master
Medicalgorithmics
- Facilitated an Agile transformation in the company.
- Served as a scrum master of the executive action team, team of executives, and leaders responsible for leading and executing an Agile transformation.
- Coached the organization on the importance of the limitation of the technical debt.
- Ensured scrum framework was understood and enacted.
- Acted as a coach, servant leader, and change manager.
- Represented scrum and agile values as a fundamental part of agile software development as a scrum master.
Scrum Master
Tricore.io
- Acted as a servant leader for development teams, product owners, and others.
- Removed process impediments to optimize team performance.
- Coached the organization to define and measure performance indicators for scrum teams (OKRs).
Project History
Agile Transformation with Scrum@Scale Framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEpHApaAFE&t=1715sFacilitated an Agile transformation in Medicalgorithmics with the Scrum@Scale framework.
Agile Transformation with Scrum@Scale at Softvoya
Worked directly with the executives on the creation of the Agile transformation strategy and later assisted them during its execution.
• Worked with the company CEO (Valery Semilitov) to establish the vision and desired state of the Agile transformation.
• Assisted with establishing the strategy for Agile transformation execution.
• Set up value streams and their prioritization.
• Conducted one-to-one coaching sessions with scrum masters and product owners dedicated to their development.
• Provided professional training for scrum master and product owner.
Certifications
Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile
Professional Scrum with User Experience I (PSU I)
Scrum.org
Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD I)
Scrum.org
Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM)
Scrum.org
Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile
Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master Level III (PSM III)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Scaled Professional Scrum
Scrum.org
Scrum@Scale Certified Practitioner
Scrum Inc.
Professional Scrum Master Level II (PSM II)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Skills
Tools
Azure App Service, Jira, Slack, Confluence, Miro
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Agile Project Management, Change Management, Key Performance Metrics, Agile Delivery, DevOps, Azure DevOps, Lean, Kanban, Management
Platforms
MacOS, Nexus
Other
Scrum@Scale, Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS), Agile Transformation, Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Project Management, Change Leadership, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum Coaching, Agile Scaling Frameworks, Sprint Ceremonies, Product Delivery, Communication, Agile Certified Practitioner, Less, Team Mentoring, Coaching, Value Stream Mapping, Product Discovery, Evidence-based Management, Systems Thinking, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, Infrastructure, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft Teams, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Development, Lean UX, SAFe 6, Kaizen
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