Agile and Scrum - Lisbon

In his long career, Mansoor has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in a variety of highly competitive organizations, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments through trainings, mentoring and counselling.

He is leading business entrepreneur, professional services consultant, program director and senior program manager offering a unique blend of skills, experience and capabilities across a wide range of industry sectors.

Presently offering over 18 years’ experience and commercial industry knowledge in Portfolio, Program and Project Management with an ability to continually define, structure and deliver a number of high-profile, high-value, complex and challenging programs of works. To date, he has experience of managing financial budgets in excess of up to AU$40M in value, leading large-scale teams from concept to handover phase.

Well experienced trainer who is deft in andragogy teaching techniques. Can manage an entire class
independently, for full day sessions on various subjects related to Management. Overall experience of 20
years having worked diverse industries including Retail Industry, Insurance, Automobile, Chemical,
manufacturing, Consumer goods, Media and Pharmaceuticals and IT industry. Over 14 years project
management experience in traditional and agile project methodologies. Recognized for the ability to lead
projects from initial definition to blueprint definition and overall execution. Work effectively with people
from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds and communicate ideas in clear easy to understand terms.
Have been engaged in teaching students as a Visiting faculty for over 4 years.
Specialty in teaching
a. Business Statistics
b. Operations Research
c. Project management (PMI & ACP)
d. Prescriptive Analytics
e. Business Process Modelling
Have worked across geographies for 10 years including US, Canada, Japan, China, Australia, Philippines,
and Austria, thus familiar and experienced on cultural sensitivity and diversity.
Can provide soft skills training in the areas of Skillful communication, Presentation Skills, Articulation
Skills, Appropriate Workplace behavior, Effective closing techniques, Stress Management, Engagement
Skills, Art of Negotiation and Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity.

Chris has been an Agile and Scrum Coach since the year 2013.  He mentors and trains teams, fellow Scrum Masters and organizations to become more Lean and Agile.  He has successfully conducted Agile and Scrum coaching and training sessions for multinational companies in the Asia Pacific region particularly in Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia.  

He currently works full-time as a department manager for Software Development and QA in a software / IT company based in the Philippines which caters to the Quick Service Restaurant industry.  He has around nineteen years’ experience in the IT industry with focus on Agile, Scrum, Project Management, Change Management, and Process Improvement. Chris with his expertise has worked with such prestigious companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Nokia, Japan Airlines, Burger King and KFC and several other companies in the Philippines, Australia, and the USA.

Ian Hirst is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMBOK) and a highly experienced Project Management and Information Technology specialist who has been involved in the IT industry for over 30 years.

Ian is a Project and Program Management trainer, instructor and counsellor providing project health check, project recovery and program planning support to a variety of business and IT projects and programs in many organizations. 

He has been a lecturer at the Australian National University and the University of NSW. 
Ian’s expertise lies in : 
• Project & Programme Management
• Transition Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Change Management
• IT Governance
• Software Development
• IT Infrastructure
• Testing & Test Management
• Business & Systems Analysis
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Requirements Management
• Risk Management
…among other disciplines.

David is a pragmatic Senior Agile Coach who is an expert at applying Lean startup and Scrum methods to create fast product development environments. His specializations as a tutor and instructor include Lean Startup, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Coaching, Team Coaching, Change Management, Extreme Programming, Rally, Jira, DevOps, Scaled Agile Framework, Cynefin, Microservices Architecture, Rapid Tablet/mobile prototyping , among others.

He has real-world industry expertise as an Agile mentor and counsellor, and is adept at introducing and mentoring Agile approaches whilst maintaining project governance. He teaches teams and organizations the art of managing the Agile approach in a regulated environment. He is particularly skilled at installing light weight change management, Iteration management and release management processes and at cultivating Agile testing practices and iterations in QA teams. David is well versed in engineering fast build pipelines and deployment practices, and works with customer-centered design to get proven results.

David has applied and managed Agile and Scrum in large organizations such as CBA, Qsuper, Amex, Telstra, NEC and the Tatts Group.

Chris is a Project Manager in a wide variety of IT and business change projects. Never afraid to ask the 'dumb' questions that often prove insightful, he is a firm believer in planning the work with stakeholders and then getting the entire team working on the plan. He has conducted trainings on PMP, Agile and Scrum and Business Case Writing. He achieved PMP status, Project Management Professional, in 2005 after 20+ years practical experience as a career IT project manager. His experience greatly benefits his protégés.”