Carrie J. Gruber - Csm, Psm I Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Sharpened focus on Agile practices and helped generate ideas by collaborating with the other Agile coaches to enhance a library of agile & lean practices that teams could use to experiment with new ways of working.
• Coached the Clocks team on how to increase work transparency and completion predictability in just three months by prioritizing work, breaking work into smaller increments, and boosting visibility on sprint goals and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Facilitated three teams on creating team charters, agreements, DoDs, and quarterly OKRs by adapting to the unique work style of each team and product requirements.
• Trained and coached two teams through their transformation from waterfall to Scrum.
• Transitioned one team from VersionOne to Jira by figuring out how they could best use the tool in their work process and then training them.
• Expanded visibility, focus, and work sharing across three teams sharing a common Product Backlog by organizing a pre sprint planning meeting with Product Owners, technical owners/managers, and Scrum Masters.

Eagan, MN

Provided coaching and training on core Scrum practices for two IT teams just starting on Scrum / Agile.

Bloomington, MN

• Supported three Lean Enterprise teams. Managed the Jira release and backlog. Increased cross-team collaboration with corporate through status meetings, demos, and design documentation after the recent acquisition of.
• Coordinated with Customer Success lead on the transition of beta customer support of a SaaS product from development teams.

Blaine, MN

• For all of my teams below, I facilitated Scrum events creating improved team collaboration and commitment. Built transparency within and outside of the teams. Worked with the Product Owner / Product Manager to.
• Completed the highest priority new features for three major releases in three years by helping two virtual teams focus on their priorities, coordinating cross-team story dependencies, broadening the visibility of any.
• Developed reports with PTC Integrity that tracked backlog, patch work, and defects while expanding feature backlog visibility and maintenance work transparency as well as eliminating obstacles and wasted time on.

Blaine

• Established communication methods, transformed on / off shore interdependent teams into engaged partners for shipping two complex feature releases with the last release significantly improved functionality.
• Enhanced individual team member engagement and team communication by deepening full team involvement in design, lowering implementation time, and meeting deadlines.
• Coordinated prompt shipment of two complex releases by organizing cross-team communication, training, status, and dependent work delivery for 12 teams across the US and India.
• Earned Team of the Month Award for successful collaboration and completion of features.

Blaine, MN And Arden Hills, MN

• Delivered a feature combining two separate product areas by forming a distributed Scrum team, creating the features, supporting legacy components, connecting the team in common goals, and collaborating with teams in.
• Organized status updates of blocked stories between teams, enabling story completion through problem transparency.

Arden Hills, MN

• Ensured an on-time release by balancing team maintenance and new feature development.
• Reduced developer involvement in customer support by creating training for support engineers and facilitating the team to gather customer support examples and resolution instructions.

Arden Hills, MN

• Led team in the traditional waterfall software development lifecycle (SDLC) encompassing the idea, implementation, release, customer support, and maintenance. Architected and defined new Windchill document management.
• Built a highly collaborative team that solved complicated challenges around new features and customer problems.
• Shipped numerous releases with improved feature quality and less technical debt.

Arden Hills, MN

Developed and supported various features in the Windchill product line. Designed and implemented Structured Document, UI and services. Designed and implemented initial data loader and Save As or Copy feature for Documents and Parts.

St Louis Park, MN And Minneapolis, MN

PDM implementer. Developer on prototype Metaphase vaulting system. Developed a prototype client/bulk loader program.Lead initial data modeling and requirements gathering for vaulting of CAD data. Developer and key supporter for CAD vault: supporting DMCS software, Oracle maintenance, and custom software. Part of implementation team for implementing.

St Louis Park, MN

Ingres application development to support Drafting and Engineering processes.