Agile Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitation

Experienced and Certified Professional Agile Coach​

As an Agile coach I use my deep experience, knowledge and training to dance between the stances of Agile coaching, mentoring, facilitation and teaching for Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners to leaders and even a CIO of a Fortune 75 company.  Below is a sample tasting menu of what I have done.

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A Tasting Menu

• Provided 1:1 hands on coaching and mentoring to numerous Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners, helping move them beyond mechanical Scrum to professional Scrum.

• Facilitated and designed workshops and coaching to help new Scrum teams get started with a Product vision, roadmap, personas, initial Product Backlog, working agreements, team norms, definition of “Done”, estimation, and team building.

• Educated the organization to leverage metrics to think beyond velocity and burn-down charts, designing a team health check template for teams to adopt and measure more effective outcomes, based on dimensions of value, flow, quality and team health.

• Developed a team maturity health check to drive continuous improvement within teams and organizations.

• Facilitated multiple training events including ​

  • Scrum for Managers

  • Metrics

  • Roles & Responsibilities.

  • Scrum Fundamentals

  • Story Mapping

  • User Story Workshops

  • Estimation

  • Adaptive Planning

  • Scrum Mastery

  • Liberating Structures

  • ‘Ask an Agile Coach’

  • Lean Coffee sessions

• Introduced teams to Management 3.0 techniques through facilitated workshops, including Moving Motivators, Delegation Poker and Personal Maps.

• Partnered with a colleague to build an Agile studio of recommended Agile practices and anti-patterns, serving an organization of over 270 Agile Teams.

• As a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), facilitated workshops on Scaling, Value Stream Mapping and Agile Release Train creation used the Scaled Agile Framework toolkits.

• Nurtured Agile Communities of Practice. Frequently blogged on relevant Agile topics.

• Coached a program of 10 Scrum Teams to leverage scaling patterns to become more effective at value delivery.

• Provided Scrum Team tune-ups and boot camps.

• Assisted with a SAFe Agile Release Train's preparation for and facilitation of Program Increment (PI) Planning.

• Prepared a client's 'State of Agile' Scrum Master Survey on a quarterly basis.