Güneş Havva Arslan
Istanbul
Summary
Dynamic Agile Coach with a proven track record at Vodafone and LC Waikiki, enhancing team productivity and organizational agility through expert coaching, mentoring, and the application of Lean Management and Agile Frameworks. Spearheaded Agile transformations, significantly improving process efficiencies and collaboration. Skilled in fostering MVP mindsets and scaling Agile practices, with a passion for driving value-driven outcomes and team engagement. At Ford Otosan, worked as a Product Engineer and Lean Management Expert, providing problem-solving mentorship as a Six Sigma Green Belt. Sectors I have experience in include automotive, retail, and telecommunications with 20 + IT&Business Team
Certifications: PSM I/KMP I/ ICP-ACC/ICP-ATF
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Agile Coach
Vodafone
05.2023 - Current
- Developed customized training materials for Agile adoption, ensuring relevance to organizational needs.
- Increase organizational agility via data driven tools such as agility maturity assessment and team engagement assessments
- Training, Coaching& Mentoring Agile Roles in all levels of the organization ( Product Owner, Chapter Lead, Scrum Master& Developers) to increase collaboration and productivity in Agile teams
- Enhancing Portfolio Management by promoting a value-driven delivery and MVP mindset, increasing transparency, and reducing time to market
- Adaptive lean thinking methods such as Value Stream Mapping to address team challenges, fostering a value-driven perspective in business processes, and reducing time to market to enhance revenue impact.
- Coordinate QBR meetings to enhance cross-team collaboration, strengthen alignment, cross- team dependencies, and ensure roadmap alignment
- Conducting regular meetings with Tribe Leads to enhance the agile maturity levels of squads within the tribe structure and providing consultancy to them.
- Managed Transformation Project by Combining Agile approaches, change management methods
Agile Coach / Deputy Director
LC Waikiki
04.2019 - 04.2023
- Preparing Agile Team Maturity Level & Product Owner Development Surveys and Improving Survey Results with applying action plans
- As Scrum Master teaching, coaching Scrum Team to how to apply scrum theory and removing impediments of teams
- Mentoring to teach lean production method to organization, making sure that it is applied correctly, applying it in unproductive areas in business processes
- In-depth expertise in Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, Value Mapping Method, Problem Solving Techniques.
- Facilitating teams in creating roadmaps to achieve strategic goals and defining objectives and measurable key results using OKR method
Process Engineer
Ford Otosan
04.2015 - 03.2019
- Conducted root cause analysis to eliminate process losses and improve efficiency.
- Designed experiments to reduce costs and enhance processes.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to boost product quality and customer satisfaction.
- Minimized downtime through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Expertise in production techniques, processes, norms, and customer/component requirements.
- Proficient in automotive engineering methods (APQP, FMEA, MSA, PPAP, SPC).
- Optimized processes using continuous improvement and lean methodologies.
Education
Metallurgy And Material Science
Istanbul Technical University
09.2014
Material Science
Dalarna University
06.2013
Skills
Coaching & Mentoring Agile Roles
Retrospective Facilitation
Lean Management Expert
Agile Framework Expertise
Agile Training
Value Stream Mapping
MVP / Value Driven mindset
Scaling Agile
6 Sigma Green Belt
Agile Rituels
Team Engagement
Transformation Organization
OKR
JIRA Agile Project Management
Accomplishments
The product's time to market was reduced from 4.5 months to 2 months, resulting in an initial revenue impact of 21 million TL
X10 better solution time for Business&IT processes
Improved team engagement survey results from 4.05 to 4.30, with the survey measuring key aspects such as trust, collaboration, workload, and support, communication
Reduced the process lead time from 64 days to 40 days in the quantity printing approval process
Total business productivity increased 10%, 109.5% DAY/YEAR at
Personal Information
Title: Agile Coach
References
My references:
Ahmet Akdağ- Founder Of Agile Turkey ve Agile Middle East- 0533 561 16 60
Çağlagül Turhan- Agile Coach- 0533 210 32 50
Timeline
Agile Coach
Vodafone
05.2023 - Current
Agile Coach / Deputy Director
LC Waikiki
04.2019 - 04.2023
Process Engineer
Ford Otosan
04.2015 - 03.2019
Metallurgy And Material Science
Istanbul Technical University
Material Science
Dalarna University