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Burak Çalışkan

Agile Coach

Burak Çalışkan
Turkey

Experience

Feb 2025 - Present
1 year

Agile Coach

Odeon Software & Technology

  • Worked closely with product teams to support delivery of software products from requirement clarification through UAT and production release
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders during backlog refinement and prioritization sessions, ensuring clarity of requirements and alignment with business goals
  • Supported roadmap discussions and release planning by visualizing dependencies, risks, and delivery progress
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
11 months

Scrum Master / Delivery Manager and Agile Coach

SNB Group UK

  • Served as Scrum Master of three distributed teams and facilitated Scrum events like refinement, sprint planning, retrospective and agile workshops
  • Directed the successful rollout of a customer-centric delivery app for a startup betting company operating in Nigeria
  • Assisted PMs in breaking down scope into epics and user stories while identifying dependencies and blockers
  • Monitored key performance metrics and provided regular updates to the leadership team
  • Identified areas of improvement within the organization and implemented solutions to increase efficiency and productivity
  • Ensured that sprint and product goals were clearly defined, attainable, and aligned with the overall project roadmap; tracked sprint progress and managed scope changes
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
9 months

Scrum Master

Friendsurance Berlin

  • Served as Scrum Master of two distributed teams and facilitated Scrum events like refinement, sprint planning, retrospective and agile workshops
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders to define and prioritize product backlogs
  • Trained teams and managers in OKR methodology and facilitated objectives setting meetings and key results presentation meetings
  • Collaborated with department heads in OKR methodology, enabling them to set meaningful objectives and measurable key results
  • Trained, mentored, and supported teams to introduce and follow agile values, principles, and practices
  • Facilitated agile maturity assessments and guided leaders and teams in continual improvement activities
Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
2 years

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Getir

  • Worked with Agile Community of Practice and created an Agile maturity model and assessment framework to identify strengths and areas for improvement
  • Prepared and led agile training programs at the team and organizational level
  • Prepared and facilitated workshops for story mapping, impact mapping, design thinking and creating personas to coach business teams
  • Facilitated workshops on Scrum values, estimation, improving Scrum events, product alignment, product owner empowerment and roadmap planning
  • Created and applied OKRs and metrics at team and organizational levels such as lead time, cycle time, time-to-market, innovation ratio, NPS, cumulative flow and tech debt ratio
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
2 years 11 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Siemens

  • Led five teams' transition to agile development in Turkey, one team in Germany and one team in Poland
  • Worked with proof of concepts and prototypes to validate the feasibility of services and products
  • Supported team and organization efficiency and performance measurement
  • Created quality and risk reports and presented them to stakeholders during sprint reviews
  • Introduced the Scaled Agile Framework and Kanban in the organization and organized Scrum of Scrums; facilitated SAFe PI plannings, agile meet-ups, lean coffees and internal tech talks
  • Helped Product Owners with backlog management and creating user stories
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
3 years 10 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Scrum Master - Agile Solutions Expert

Vodafone

  • Facilitated Scrum events like refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives, and conducted agile workshops
  • Helped teams to achieve their sprint goals and resolved impediments
  • Created and executed test cases for new products, services or changes in charging and billing domains for projects in the Consumer and Enterprise Agile Solution Team
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
9 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Integration and Verification Test Engineer

Huawei Technologies

  • Created and executed UI test cases with Huawei Test Automation tool for Huawei components, CRM, charging and billing
Oct 2008 - Jun 2014
5 years 9 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Software Test and Quality Engineer

Nortel Netas

  • Worked in various VOIP projects as quality engineer and test team lead
  • Worked at Cedar Point campus in Derry, New Hampshire, USA for three months

Summary

Senior Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, and Agile Coach with 15+ years of experience leading large-scale and distributed software delivery initiatives. Proven record of improving delivery predictability, reducing lead time, and increasing throughput by implementing Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and OKR-driven execution models. Successfully coached and scaled multiple teams, increasing flow efficiency, improving release stability, and accelerating time-to-market across telecom, fintech, e-commerce, and startup environments.

Recognized for translating strategy into execution by removing systemic impediments, establishing agile maturity frameworks, and enabling data-driven delivery management. Led organizational transformations that improved sprint success rates, increased delivery quality, and strengthened stakeholder alignment, resulting in measurable gains in product quality, customer satisfaction, and operational performance.

Skills

  • Agile Delivery Leadership

  • Enterprise Agile Transformation

  • Delivery Management

  • Flow Optimization & Predictability

  • Okr Strategy & Execution

  • Product & Portfolio Alignment

  • Stakeholder & Executive Management

  • Scaled Agile (Safe)

  • Agile Coaching

  • Roadmap Governance

  • Performance Metrics & Kpi Management

  • Continuous Improvement

  • Risk & Dependency Management

  • Jira & Azure Devops

  • Delivery Tracking & Kpi Monitoring

  • Roadmap & Release Planning Support

  • Jira

  • Trello

  • Asana

  • Azure Devops

  • Github

  • Jenkins

  • Aws

  • Canva

  • Miro

Languages

Turkish
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2004 - Sep 2008

Yeditepe University

Electrical and Electronics Engineering · İstanbul, Turkey

Certifications & licenses

ICP-ACC (ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching)

ICAgile

ICP-ATF (ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation)

ICAgile

KMP I (Kanban System Design)

Kanban University

KMP II (Kanban Systems Improvement)

Kanban University

PAL (Professional Agile Leadership)

Scrum.org

PAL-EBM (Professional Agile Leadership-EBM)

Scrum.org

PSD (Professional Scrum Developer)

Scrum.org

PSK (Professional Scrum with Kanban)

Scrum.org

PSM I (Professional Scrum Master - I)

Scrum.org

PSM II (Professional Scrum Master - II)

Scrum.org

PSM III (Professional Scrum Master - III)

Scrum.org

PSPO I (Professional Scrum Product Owner - I)

Scrum.org

PSPO II (Professional Scrum Product Owner - II)

Scrum.org

PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience)

Scrum.org

SPS (Scaled Professional Scrum)

Scrum.org

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