Aaron Collett Email and Phone Number

Aaron Collett is a Agile and Devops Transformation Coach - Public Sector at Ibm Interactive Experience. He possess expertise in agile methodologies, business analysis, scrum, business process, requirements analysis and 34 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Aaron provided coaching to myself and other Scrum masters on a large distributed agile at scale Transformation and delivery project. I had heard positive comments about Aaron’s ability prior to joining the project from other agile contractors who had worked with him. Upon meeting Aaron It is clear why people have had positive things to say, not only does Aaron have an in-depth (probably the most of anyone I have met in my career) knowledge of Agile practices and approaches, he also is a very competent coach and leader. As part of a group of Scrum Masters on the project each with a different background; myself, coming from a more technical background rather than PM route. Aaron was able to provide coaching across the board and offer advice where needed both technical and process related. I was particularly surprised at his level of technical competency, often sitting down with the developers offering advice which was well received. Aaron has the ability to lead sessions ranging from a couple of people to 250+ captivating people’s attention through an obvious wealth of knowledge and humour to his approach. The programme was particularly challenging (consisting of multiple projects), Aaron worked across the programme whilst also working directly and leading a large team development team himself however he always was able to offer coaching where needed and helped many people develop within the programme. Aaron was able to implement change and transformation where many on the project had failed, Aaron is very good at getting people to understand the benefits of adoption without being forceful, Aaron takes the stakeholders on a journey to understand the issues at hand and relate it to the domain they understand, he has a wide variety of analogies and real world examples which helps this. He also has the ability to break down a large issue into smaller pieces and move the issue forward by example. Aaron offered key coaching on certain Scrum ceremonies which were not covered really during CSM courses and really helped me understand true purpose of scrum master." and "Aaron was a great coach with a wide variety of agile techniques and methods. Aaron was well respected by the scrum masters, able to offer advice and best practice where needed, this was greatly received by the developers as many people were still stuck in the command and control mentality, Aaron was able to give responsibility back to the teams and in turn people were more open with issues. I worked closely with Aaron when he coached the leads for testing on the project, Aaron helped the development directors to understand key issues in current testing process: bringing the testing into the sprint and not a last minute activity, involving the testing teams in conversations early (rather than left till last), use of new testing methods such as use of BDD, automation scripts and correct use of CI. Aaron was very professional, confident and well respected, of the “Agile” specialists onsite Aaron was far the most competent often being called to help out on discussions. "