Nicholas Li

Product Manager | GovTech

Singapore

About

Experience

  • GovTech Singapore (Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Product Manager
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    • Agile Delivery Manager (Government Digital Services)
      Feb 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

      • Responsible for the overall delivery of the Business Grants Portal, from development to operations and maintenance. • Played role of an agile coach to 4 scrum teams and a team of product owners, consisting of both Govtech staff and vendors. I implemented LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) as an agile framework, to increase flexibility and adaptability of the squads and promote product-centricity through the consolidation of multiple backlogs into 1 single product backlog. • Radiated agile metrics using Google Data Studio for the teams to inspect and adapt, emphasizing on 4 key areas: Business Value, Strong Agile Backbone, Sustainable Pace and Sprint Metrics. • Facilitated LeSS sprint events like Combined Sprint Planning, Combined Retrospective and Combined Sprint Review. Experimented with the concept of a sprint bazaar to make it engaging for engineers and stakeholders, while at the same time achieving the main outcome of obtaining increase in feedback. • Coached scrum team members in regular 1-on-1s, to check-in on how I can support them in obtaining purpose and mastery. • Published an agile playbook for GDS and subsequently avail it onto Developers Portal for Whole-of-Government use. • Volunteered as an adjunct agile coach to other Govtech divisions to upskill analysts and project managers in agile methodology. • Challenged status quo on existing agile contracts, collaborating with leadership and audit to move towards outcome-based contracts.

  • Accenture (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Technology Consultant
      Nov 2017 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Scrum Master/Workstream lead for Leading Oil and Gas Company from Malaysia. • Managed stakeholders and communicating with client IT team for integration and environment readiness. • Coached clients and development team on Agile and Scrum framework • Scrum Master for 2 Pod Teams • Successfully led a team of developers in delivering a C-level suite dashboard using Tableau. • Collaborated with consultants from Tableau and UI design teams to produce a futuristic and digital look-and-feel dashboard design.

    • Technology Consulting Analyst
      Jun 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      1. Enterprise Asset Management System Project with an Electricity and Gas Company based in Singapore - Portal Consultant, assigned to do a make-over of the client's internal web portal. - Gathered requirements from client's various functional leads and translated business requirements to a functional specifications document, successfully obtaining sign-offs 2. Performance Management System Project with a Global Utilities Client, based in Singapore. - BI Consultant / Test Lead, assigned to create a dashboard that reports performance across client's various functions. - Provided demo of the prototype to leadership team to gather early feedbacks on dashboard design. - Provided user trainings on dashboards and BI reports to client's multi-regional team from India, - Conducted User Acceptance Test briefing across geographical boundaries (India, China and Singapore)