Güneş Havva Arslan
Agile Coach
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. Sectors I have experience in include automotive, retail, and telecommunications.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
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.
Agile Coach / Deputy Director
LC Waikiki
04.2019 - 04.2023
- Experiencing Scrum Master, and Agile Coach roles with different side of transformation.
- As Scrum Master teaching, coaching Scrum Team to how to apply scrum theory
- Designing training and applying facilitation techniques to scrum team needs in retrospectives
- Preparing Agile Team Maturity Level & Product Owner Development Surveys and Improving Survey Results with applying action plans
- 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 identify, prioritize and eliminate process losses.
- Designed and executed experiments to identify process improvements, leading to reduced costs and increased efficiency.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve product quality, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
- Reduced production downtime by conducting thorough root cause analyses and implementing corrective actions.
- Expertise of Production Techniques and Processes, Norms and Customer Requirements, Component and Tolerance Requirements
Experience in automotive engineering methods (APQP, FMEA, MSA, PPAP, SPC) - Optimized manufacturing processes by implementing continuous improvement initiatives and lean methodologies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Metallurgy And Material Science
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey 09.2009 - 09.2014
Material Sciences
Dalarna University
Sweeden 01.2013 - 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
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 at Development Process Lead Time Reduction Project
Total business productivity increased 10%, 109.5% DAY/YEAR at
Process Improvement with a Lean Perspective in Design Processes
% 100 Implementation CM4D Quality Control and Measurement
Project at manufacturing line.
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
Material Sciences
Dalarna University
01.2013 - 06.2013
Bachelor of Science - Metallurgy And Material Science
Istanbul Technical University
09.2009 - 09.2014