You're seeing this page as if you were . The main menu is still yours, though. Exit from immersion
Malt welcome

Welcome to Richard's freelance profile!

Malt gives you access to the best freelancers for your projects. Contact Richard to discuss your project or search for other freelancer profiles on Malt.

Richard Grieve

Scrum Master
  • Suggested rate
    €595 / day
  • Experience3-7 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
The project will begin once you accept Richard's quote.
Location and workplace preferences
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Verifications

Freelancer code of conduct signed

Read the Malt code of conduct
Verified email
Languages
Categories
These freelancer profiles also match your search criteria
Agatha FrydrychAF

Agatha Frydrych

Backend Java Software Engineer

Baptiste DuhenBD

Baptiste Duhen

Fullstack developer

Amed HamouAH

Amed Hamou

Senior Lead Developer

Audrey ChampionAC

Audrey Champion

Web developer

Skill set (7)
Richard in a few words
An experienced and qualified Scrum Master, Manager and Developer with 15 years’ experience of Agile software development. Demonstrable ability in organising, coaching and leading multi ability and cross functional Agile teams. Considerable experience in leading and participating in Agile development team ceremonies. Strong knowledge of Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence.
Experience
  • European Commission
    Scrum Master
    DIGITAL & IT
    June 2018 - July 2022 (4 years and 1 month)
    Brussels, Belgium
    European Commission Scrum Master multiple EC teams:
    ● Eurofound project - A complex task to migrate a large site to Drupal 8 & OpenEuropa.
    ● OpenEuropa Extended Team: External teams for EC Agencies to contribute towards the
    OpenEuropa project.
    ● OpenEuropa Support: 2nd & 3rd line support for sites built using OpenEuropa SAAS.

    Key responsibilities
    Guided a large development team in Agile practices and methods, encouraging and enabling them to be self managing and responsive.
    ● Coordinated with Business Owner, Product Owners and other external teams such as Front End, DevOps, Security and Support.
    ● Led Agile ceremonies for the team, especially focussed on backlog refinement and planning for a diverse set of components and large team.
    ● Increased team consistency using TDD and CI/CD on AWS in conjunction with DevOps team
    ● Coordinated and managed communication with Product Owner for large complex legacy site.
    ● Introduced incremental Agile build for a new website built in Drupal 8 using OpenEuropa
    components.
    ● Taught Support team about OpenEuropa product and managed support using Kanban in
    conjunction with DevOps, 1st Line support, Front End and Security teams.
    ● Coordinated with external Agencies regarding their specific needs and instructed their
    developers in EC processes and Agile methods.
    ● Tracked, managed and measured all Agile teams using Jira and Confluence.
    ● All teams were remote based, with all other members using English as lingua franca.
    Agile method Scrum Kanban Communication Team management Atlassian JIRA Atlassian Confluence
Recommendations