Bringing the power of Transparent Process Mapping (visual thinking tools) to a whiteboard and meeting space near you. I have a sharpie - will travel. As a Solo-preneur that plays well with others I've developed iOS Apps for other Agile Coaches (InspireMe! Cards in the App Store) and I'm always working on several projects... sometimes too many at once. I code and blog on The Swift Dojo, Live Coding with the crew at TDD.Academy and enjoy the Apple EcoSystem since before the first iPhone.I'm a free lance Agile Journey-man, I keep traveling to find new ideas and spread them around in my wake. If you are interested in new ideas, want to reboot a team, need to talk with your customers to get feedback on product ideation, have a cat stuck in a tree, want to train your CxO and rehabilitate your organization - well I love to do this stuff... call me - maybe.

Consulting with HKS (via Zeal-IT-Consultants) - IT teams managing many applications, and building next gen infrastructure and applications.

Attempt to save JCB project via adoption of Scrum process; coaching team members in conflict.

Exploring alternative methods of building marketing teams with Lean/Agile practices.

GlynnDevins is launching a new product development team. Of course they are going to adopt an Agile method (Scrum/Kanban/Lean) and they want a powerful liftoff to this new endeavor.The one week liftoff went great, we did a one week sprint and learned lots. The team is sprinting, I will check back with them in a few weeks.

A short term exploration of the state of Scrum implementation at Toyota, as they attempt yet another imposed Agile Transformation ( Disrupting the AIC pt 1 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disrupting-agile-industrial-complex-part-one-peter-merel/ ) I did some consulting with Toyota Group Managers and National Managers on their teams current state of Scrum (about 12 m. after the Scrum Inc Transformation). Assessments, Reports, Recommendation.

Consulting with CCC-IS on the Next Generation Analytics Scrum Adoptions.Engagement via the great people at Conteneo (https://conteneo.co) the Product Solutions via Collaboration people.Worked with great people and a very interesting new product start-up effort. My first true exposure to real "big data" environments and tools. They help me see their meaning behind "data ain't software when it comes time to test it." I expect their 2018 product offerings will be a first step... along their journey (and I hope it will continue to be an Agile journey).

If you can describe the role - you can not be the role... Stop trying and do. - Yoda. [right I made it up... but, did you believe Yoda was a real character?]I was enticed to join this group of technicians from USAA's home office in San Antonio that had relocated a seed group of developers, starting a Plano campus. A bold move for the company - should be FUN. The first interview day a VP introduced me to their cultural art gallery. One of the framed images was an elephant with "Ignore Me" painted on it's side. OK - I've seen enough - I'm in.I didn't want the traditional "Agile Coaching" role -- although the coaches I knew and met were a huge draw. To work with awesome people is one of my desires. I also desired to work with the developers, to actually experience the changes that introducing people to the Scrum framework, XP practices, and Agile mindset can empower in the workforce. As with all large organizations, there was the best of times and the worst of times. USAA's old style culture is a nice thing... well until it stifles what new innovations they are attempting with a satellite techie office. The values are plastered on the walls, sometimes you can see the congruent actions - sometime you are left gobsmacked.In the months I was there - I had one successful agile adoption by a team. I know this because after the company broke up the team, members came up to me to say how much they had learned and that they were now teaching/mentoring their new team members (and it sounded weirdly like my words coming out of their mouths). That was awesome. But really just a few gems in an otherwise salted pile of dirt.

Have Sharpies, will work with teams to achieve greatness in Scrum process execution regardless of impediments. Bringing the FUN, to dysfunctional team meetings. Worked with several teams as they journeyed along the agile maturity path. Bringing new developers to an understand of the Agile mindset and seeing it flourish is a great joy for me. GameStop was ripe for the developer Agile mindset flowering moment.It was FUN! Game-ON!

Agile Coach and Scrum Master consultant to The Container Store. Scrum Master for TCS IT Selling Systems group, facilitated 3 Scrum teams. Group responsibilities: development and maintenance of Web site, store systems, point of sale systems. Coached new groups (data warehousing, reporting, inventory systems) in adopting Agile/Lean practices. Coached one-on-one with team members, instructed courses, organizational continuous improvement sessions, advised on current best practices in software development, servant leader for teams. [Note: just because I used the term "servant leader" doesn't mean I'm a poser; I can accurately describe the behaviors intended by the term.]. [Full Disclosure: I bought TCS stock, because I saw the engaged workforce that lived their mission statement.]

Consultant via Improving Enterprises.Agile Coach and Scrum Master consultant to The Container Store. Scrum Master for TCS IT Selling Systems group, facilitated 3 Scrum teams. Group responsibilities: development and maintenance of Web site, store systems, point of sale systems. Coached new groups (data warehousing, reporting, inventory systems) in adopting Agile/Lean practices. Coached one-on-one with team members, instructed courses, organizational continuous improvement sessions, advised on current best practices in software development, servant leader for teams.

Consultant to AT&T - Dallas, TX; Agile Coach

Practice, practice, practice coaching in the Agile software development space with the goal of reaching Carnegie Hall.The Origins of That Famous Carnegie Hall Jokehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/nyregion/29fyi.html

Coaching Agile teams and leading transition to Agile/Lean software development and learning organizational. Exploring the computer aided mapping and location services.

Managed the delivery of Agile software projects, play a role on the development team as Scrum Master, Coach, strive to be a servant leader. Responsible for budget, projections, estimates, tracking, reporting.

Engaged with Speakeasy to coach Agile development practices for a new line of business in VoIP solutions. Developed a team of Agile software engineers from just a plan to a working team of 30+ developers (including QA, UX, BA, etc.) delivering functional software every 3 weeks. The technically strongest, largest most dedicated group of developers I've had the pleasure to work with.

Internal Consulting and Review is a group inside of SolutionsIQ tasked with raising the bar for the development teams, in terms of their Agile practices.We do this via coaching, mentoring and formal training.We teach a week long "SIQ University Boot Camp". An introduction to Agile practices, such as Scrum, TDD, Pair Programming, Automated Acceptance Testing, Teamwork & Continuous Integration practices.

CinguLINC Project - a large development effort on a internal legacy system used to manage cell phone tower/land leases for a major wireless telephone service company.

As an Agile Team Lead I coached and mentored an 8 -12 person team (developers, QA and subject matter experts) for over one year; from a state of analysis-paralysis (incapable of delivering working software) into an Agile team delivering working tested code every month.