Darren Priest : Interactive Solutions with Agile / Scrum
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 Role: Senior Program Manager, Yahoo! Frontpage, Current Position


Responsibilities:
  • Programme management of international teams using Scrum to deliver services for Yahoo! Frontpage and My Yahoo! across Europe
  • Product and Sprint Backlogs, Sprint planning, daily updates, retrospectives, issue escalation, risk analysis, and stakeholder communications
  • Cross-functional teams (engineering, web-development, QA)
  • Geographically disperse teams, including London, Paris, Grenoble, Munich, Milan, and Madrid.
  • Communications with stakeholders, including Yahoo! Audience Leadership, and Yahoo! US Frontdoors
  • Roadmap and resource allocation planning with Europe and US
  • Risk analysis and issue escalation
  • Adhoc project management of other Yahoo! Project teams, including Eurosports
Successes:
  • Programme management of the new Yahoo! global homepage
  • Contribute to strategic planning with senior US management in Sunnyvale
  • Invest-case planning for product roadmaps and resource allocations
  • Improve processes for running projects with globally distributed teams and dependencies
  • I provide program visibility, risk assessment, and issue resolution, reporting into ICE teams in Europe and US.
  • Launch of new My Yahoo! Chameleon platform in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy
  • Managed sprints for the EU Sports team in Paris to ensure launch of services for start of new football season
  • Certified Scrum Master



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