Michael Stout Email & Phone Number

United States

Enterprise Agile Coach helping projects teams transition to agile product teams.

Plano, Texas, United States

Working within a team of enterprise Agile coaches at Bank of America helping them formulate a transformation plan to move the organization from siloed Project centric Agile teams to cross-organizational Product centric teams using SAFe.

Worked within a self-organizing team of enterprise Agile coaches at Charles Schwab helping the organization of leaders and teams succeed with adaptive challenges through the application of agile values and principles.I've helped numerous Agile programs, teams, and leaders adopt an Agile mindset and practices as part of an organizational transformation.

Dallas, Texas

Responsible for defining an enterprise Vision, Roadmap, and Release planning process for all Agile development teams at Match.

Addison, TX

I'm a principle consultant at Improving Enterprises helping other companies like, American Airlines, BazaarVoice and Intuit with their enterprise wide Agile transformation process.I spend most of my time:- as a servant-leader and coaching teams on Scrum, eXtreme Programing and Kanban Agile methodologies / frameworks- working with upper management to build.

Plano, Texas

I've been working as the lead Agile Coach in the Agile transformation of the Pro Tax Group (PTG) business unit at Intuit. Since April of 2012, I have coached & mentored 30+ different Scrum teams (remote and co-located) with their software development agility. I have helped those teams create an environment & mindset that fosters transparency, learning.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Part of a 7 person enterprise Agile coaching team that’s responsible for transitioning the organization to using Agile software development methods for all future projects. Responsible for training 200+ employees in Agile values, principles and Scrum/XP practices. Coached 25+ teams that ranged in size from 4 to 50+ person teams in all aspects of Agile..

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for training 125+ people on Agile values & principles and detailed training of the SCRUM framework. Coached 8 teams for two Sprints using Scrum and 1 team using Kanban. Mentored upper management on various organizational changes needed to support the teams in their adoption.

Southlake, TX

I spent 4+ years coaching and mentoring numerous scrum teams across 16 different product areas on Agile values, principles and practices. These teams ranged in size, locations and agile maturity. The custom software projects they were developing were multi-million dollar projects.I provided Agile training, coaching and mentoring. I worked with 5 other.

• Responsible for leading, managing and coaching a technical team of 4 Java developers. The primary responsibility of this team was to develop internal tools for Airline Solution’s (AS) development teams that help them.
• Fulfilled Product Owner (Agile Customer) role for all software development
• Developed the AS Build Center 2.0. A more intuitive GUI, nicer look and feel, and provided many new automated code quality metrics for teams to use.
• The Build Center source code was the first real project to be put in Commonwealth
• Trained many teams on how to use XPlanner and the Wiki in such a way that their teams were more productive.
• Implemented the JForum collaboration tool for AS development teams