Denefield School

Project Manager at News UK

News Broadcasting

Senior Project Manager

News UK

Lead Business Analyst

Project Manager

Senior Business Analyst

In order to develop my understanding of mobile systems and development, I took on a role supporting the Mobile and Tablet websites for Sportingbet.  Sportingbet also operate a distributed development team between the UK and Russia and mainly use Kanban methodology.  

During my time at Sportingbet I was able to effectively communicate with larger, distributed offshore stakeholder groups representing the needs of multiple countries to establish a suitable product relevant for all.  I managed 4 separate offshore development teams, all working on different prioritised projects.  I was able to collaborate with the design team to ensure that mobile limitations were understood and accommodated without compromising on the quality of the product offered.  I worked closely with the security team to ensure the site met security and data protection requirements, as well as liaising with the Compliance and Legal department to deliver each site in accordance with the regulations of the appropriate licensing body.  I was responsible for ensuring that developed features were usable across 6 streams of implementation and relevant for both iOS and Android and I was continually aligning mobile delivery with desktop functionality to provide a consistent experience for users.

Sportingbet

Mobile Business Analyst

To broaden my experience as a BA, I successfully transitioned into BaU, working with a small team for Rank Group Ltd.  The company operated a distributed SCRUM approach using multiple offshore development and QA teams as well as offshore stakeholders.  

Whilst working at Rank Group, I was responsible for working with stakeholders across multiple brands to gather requirements to create well defined user stories, for providing the development teams with timely and well-formed user stories to enable them to competently and confidently commit to a Sprint, for ensuring our QA team understood the requirements and acceptance criteria in order to carry out in sprint and release testing, and working with the development and QA team throughout the sprints to ensure the teams commitment was delivered on time and with minimal disruption

Rank Group

Business Analyst

Whilst working at Kaplan, I acted as a Business Analyst/Product Owner in web development for a private education company; managing and mentoring one other UK based Business Analyst.

Located in the IT department of Kaplan UK, I managed the full business change process, from initial project inception, through requirements gathering, development, testing and release, including post implementation support.  I facilitated full stakeholder involvement, determining who the interested parties might be, facilitating meetings and workshops, assisting business experts in discovering requirements and reconciling stakeholder interests.  

I successfully managed a team of 4-9 developers and up to 5 QA testers spread across two continents, as well as working with other development teams to ensure cross platform integration.  I was capable of turning initial requirements into fully defined user stories, which provide acceptance criteria, critical test scenarios, functional and non-functional requirements and list any relevant required data.  I carried out a technical review with the assistance of the senior developer to ensure suggested solutions are practical, user friendly and deliver the requirements.  This also assisted in providing budgetary estimates required for quarterly and annual budgets and team planning.

Kaplan Financial (UK)

Genna Fowler