Hello, nice to meet you!
Tinkrs comes in different flavours...
Below, you can find an overview of my areas of expertise.
Together, we can make your software projects a success and reach the next level in your digital journey.
If you're wondering what Tinkrs means:
Cambridge dictionary
To tinker (verb): The activity of making changes to something to repair or improve it.
A tinker (noun): A person who travels from place to place, repairing or improving thing.
Release train engineer
Implementing the scaled agile framework / SAFe helps to drive value delivery and organizational agility. As a release train engineer / RTE for an agile release train / ART, I coordinate with agile teams, both within and ouside the ART, and ART level roles such as product management and system architect to follow up on PI execution, manage dependencies, identify risks and delays and help remove impediments that may impact delivery.
In addition, I prepare and facilitate key planning and synchronization ART events such as Inspect & Adapt, PI Planning and ART sync ensuring alignment between business objectives and execution while fostering collaboration across teams, transparency and continuous improvement.
By promoting effective coordination, accelerating flow and continuously improving our processes, we enable the ART to deliver value in an efficient and a predictable way and in alignment with organizational goals and customer needs.
Scrum master
In recent years, I've gained experience as a scrum master for multiple agile teams applying proven agile frameworks and practises such as scrum, kanban, lean thining, scaled agile using SAFe... to drive value delivery, improve team performance and support organizational agility.
I facilitate scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, daily scrums, product backlog refinement... while helping the agile team to deliver value at a sustainable pace in the least amount of time. I proactively help to remove impediments for the team, manage dependencies and foster a continuous improvement culture to optimize flow.
In addition, I coach the development team and product owner in adopting an empirical mindset, embracing agile principles, embedding effective ways of working and collaborating, in growing their T-shaped skills and becoming a more self-organizing team to increase the team effectiveness and predictability to deliver customer value.
Functional analyst
System requirements analysis makes sure a solution gets built or selected and implemented that actually meets the business requirements. In the past few years, I've gained experience in system requirement analysis by participating in various implementation and optimization projects for both custom developed applications as well as package implementation.
During these projects, my main focus was to analyse, describe and design ICT solutions on a functional level by providing UML deliverables such as use cases, logical data models, state diagrams, integration & service specifications, ... Next to that, functional analysis also covers topics such as optimizing the user experience, determining non-functional requirements, security, training and support to end users.
Business process engineer
During various projects within a production environment, my focus was on getting a better grip on business processes by identifying the different flows in and the interaction between departments. By modelling a process, it becomes more transparent as there is a clear overview of stakeholders, how input is converted into output, which systems are used, ...
This means bottlenecks can be eliminated and the company can focus the efforts on added value for the customer and reduce waste. Therefore, business process management is closely linked to quality management as both aim to achieve operational excellence and to reduce risks. One of the key aspects in past process optimization projects was to set up performance indicators as these provide vital information to monitor the various processes and help in making decisions backed up by facts.
Quality engineer
One of the areas I've been active in is the area of quality improvement. This included setting up a quality management system and introducing methodologies such as PDCA to pursue continuous improvement within the organisation to better serve the - both internal and external - customer.
This means for example analysing ishikawa diagrams to determine which parameters might influence the outcome of a process, setting up critical control points, determining corrective and preventive actions, evaluating the quality managing system through first party and third party audits, ... to make sure the right product is delivered at the right time which meets the agreed quality levels. As there is a strong link between process management and quality improvement, very often root cause analysis of a product failure and determining a corrective or preventive action led to a process change to increase the effectiveness of activities, to avoid risks or to reduce rework.
Why choose Tinkrs?
Proven frameworks
Vast experience in scrum, kanban and scaled agile
Customer focus
We go the extra mile for you
T shaped
Extensive understanding of the SDLC
Creativity & out of the box thinking
In facilitating events and solving complex problems
Experience
15+ years experience in IT sector
Data driven decisions
We leverage agile metrics to optimize the way of working