Agile Coach, RBC 2010-2013

ByPaul Henman

Project overview: introducing Agile methods to multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Introduced and reinforced Agile concepts and techniques
  • Helped team members to identify obstacles and action plans for their resolution.
  • Worked closely with Scrum Master to facilitate the planning, review and retrospective meetings, and to develop the release plan.
  • Coaching the Product Owner and stakeholders as they tackle the challenge of prioritising their wish lists.

Agile practices introduced:

  • Daily stand up meeting
  • Product backlog; release planning
  • Retrospectives
  • Sprint planning
  • Sprint reviews
  • Task breakdown and estimation
  • Test-driven development (TDD)
  • Timeboxing
  • User Stories: creating, prioritising, sizing

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