Ryan Gibson

Strategically minded, results driven and agile Delivery Lead with a passion for people and technology.

15+ years delivering digital services across UK, Europe and North America.
 

Delivery Expertise:

• Experienced Delivery/Program Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach 

• Digital Transformation

• Scaled Agile - Leading SAFe 4.0 qualified 

• Strategy planning, change management and implementation 

• Project Definition and business case creation

• Budget, Schedule and Resource Planning  

• Project Portfolio Management – Risks and Issue management. 

• Conflict Management - Development process conflict, business process conflict, people conflict

• Client relationship management 

• Data Analysis and Reporting 

• Agile development principles, methodologies and tooling solutions 

• Complex Project Delivery – Hybrid Waterfall/Agile Environments 

• Excellent team building skills – Motivator, Mentor, Coach 

Strategy/Planning skills:

• Conceptual and analytical: Creative and innovative thinking 

• Business development: Strategic planning and development capability, understanding of technical and market trends have helped clients to achieve and develop business goals, secure additional budgets and win pitches. 

• Client and stakeholder Management: Managing client and stakeholder expectations, excellent  communications skills with ability to facilitate presentations, discussions and workshops.

• Methodology: Managing project life cycle through all phases, while utilising Agile, Lean and traditional Waterfall methodologies. 

• Team management: Managed a wide range of internal and external team members including developers, designers, strategists, product managers, user researchers and testers. 

• Technical solutions: Integration and development of responsive, mobile ready, open source, off the-shelf, bespoke and proprietary solutions for client’s needs, including CMS, e-commerce,  CRM, intranet, extranet and specific apps. 

Specialist knowledge;

• Focus on the 'digital imperative' (i.e. the why) and how it applies to each project and/or service 

• Promote a robust service design approach to ensure delivery teams are building the right thing at the right time on the basis of data and user research 

• Building and supporting teams to deliver efficiently and effectively following agile practices and continuous delivery principles 

• Cultivating relationships in multi-supplier environments to deliver shared objectives 

• Helping clients to build in-house digital skills. 

• Leading small and large-scale agile digital service delivery 

• Leading multi-discipline, multi-vendor and multi-site software development teams.

• Blending agile delivery with traditional governance approaches to manage risk and uncertainty.