Chris Tromans
Agile Coach at CCDC - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Certified Agile Leadership Essentials
Scrum AllianceMar, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Agile Leadership Organisations
Scrum AllianceMar, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Leading SAFe 5.0
Scaled Agile, Inc.Apr, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Coaching Agile Teams 3.0
Agile Coaching InstituteApr, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
AgilePM (2014) - Projection Management - Foundation
APMG-International -
AgilePM (2014) - Projection Management - Practitioner
APMG-International -
Certified Scrum Professional
Scrum Alliance -
Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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CCDC - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Agile Coach
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Apr 2019 - Present
My current role, playing the Agile Coach at CCDC, a non-profit, charity organisation is enabling me to both coach and lead highly successful improvements throughout the organisation. This involves all aspects of both Agile and non-Agile coaching and helping to deliver value-focussed implementations of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Scrum@Scale within and outside of Software Development teams. Alongside this has been driving several key aspects of our remote and hybrid working environment during the pandemic. Active member of several cross-functional teams including Culture Evolution, Knowledge Management, Change Champions and Wellbeing. Has a key focus on "making work visible" to improve data-driven coaching and decision making. Show less
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Brady Technologies
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Agile Coach and Software Engineering Manager
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Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
Played a key role in the Agile Transformation, supported by peer Agile consultants to bring together global parts of the business to use industry standard Agile tools and practices. A mixture of line management and Agile Coaching, the role allowed use of a drive for continuous improvement alongside teaching, mentoring and coaching skills with both teams and individuals.
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Development Team Manager, ScrumMaster and Agile Specialist
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Dec 2010 - Dec 2016
Development Team Manager for the Cambridge team at Brady PLC having previously had proven success in the position of ScrumMaster for several teams including the Concorde, CTRM and then Aquarius product teams. This role utilised my skills in leadership, mentoring and coaching of software developers using Agile and Scrum techniques alongside complex project dependencies across globally distributed teams. This led to a focus on dramatically improving the coherence and collaboration using Agile/Scrum approaches to change meeting formats, structures and timings within Scrum and Project iterations.Previous roles were taken on to bring to teams detailed knowledge and experience of transitioning to Agile. These included pushing the change to the use of industry standard Continuous Integration tools, code reviews, distributed source control using Git and GitHub and unit testing. This resulted in a move away from manual build processes to fully automated build and deployment environments.Specialising in team and process development has been key with expert skills in advanced retrospectivs to identify and propose improvements both within teams and between teams while ensuring the key buy-in to changes. This soft skill set includes accomplished conflict resolution and management at both team and individual levels.Highly self-motivated approach and the willingness to work extra on personally suggested proposals to improve Agile/Scrum desire and use. This has included self-started projects on the encouragement to use User Stories throughout Brady, online global Improvement Communities to bring teams together and skills analysis and management. This has been done alongside continual personal blogging internally on Agile and Scrum subjects - sharing knowledge throughout the company.An active member of the Brady Social Committee with the goal of taking on this role being to also look at employee motivation outside of project/team related scenarios. Show less
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Chris Tromans Photography
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Ely, Cambridgeshire
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Owner and Photographer
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Oct 2011 - Sep 2018
A Cambridge based Wedding and Lifestyle photographer - travelling around Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and the surrounding counties. With a devotion to delivering beautiful story-telling images, services include Wedding Photography and Lifestyle Portrait Photography for individuals, couples, children or your entire family. A Cambridge based Wedding and Lifestyle photographer - travelling around Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and the surrounding counties. With a devotion to delivering beautiful story-telling images, services include Wedding Photography and Lifestyle Portrait Photography for individuals, couples, children or your entire family.
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Knowledge Genes Limited
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Development and Operations Lead
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Dec 2008 - Nov 2010
Knowledge Genes Ltd was created to continue development of a new business model, built on the product implemented by Hyperknowledge, into a successful online web application. The role enabled me to work alongside other C’level company members on the strategy of the product while keeping a hands-on approach to the implementation of the project to ensure an excellent understanding of the architecture and code. Accountability for the operation of the website warranted knowledge of the right hardware and platforms to use to meet the required expectations for performance and scalability. Show less
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Internet Development Team Leader
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Sep 1999 - Dec 2008
The team leader role allowed me to complement my development skills with the management of the Internet Development Team. With many projects being entirely customer focussed, I was actively involved in meetings with major clients to discuss requirements and expectations of both the product and team.As an integral part of my management role I had responsibility for the recruitment, interviewing and appraisal of software development candidates, which also led to the provision of induction training in the software development process and code-base. Show less
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Software Developer
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Sep 1997 - Sep 1999
My initial role at Hyperknowledge enabled me to achieve a high level of understanding and excellent practical knowledge of all aspects of software development throughout the commercial product lifecycle.
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Education
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2021 - 2021
Agile Centre
Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) -
2020 - 2020
Agil8
Leading SAFe 5.0 -
2017 - 2017
Agile Coaching Institute
Coaching Agile Teams 3.0 -
2015 -
APMG International
AgilePM (2014) - Agile Projection Management - Practitioner -
2013 - 2015
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Professional -
2014 -
Mike Cohn Training
Succeeding With Agile and Agile Estimation and Planning -
2012 - 2013
Focus On, London and Oxford
Certified ScrumMaster and Advanced ScrumMaster -
1994 - 1997
University of Nottingham
BSc Honours, Computer Science -
1989 - 1994
Ferndown Upper School
4 A'Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Geography
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