Sarah Browne Email & Phone Number

Excelsior, Mn, Us

Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

United States

United States

Clients:OptumServeCambridge Investment ResearchOptum Home and CommunityUnited Health Care Insurance SolutionsVirgin Pulse

=>Coached the Business Agility Transformation team, their direct reports, delivery teams, and stakeholders on principles and practices of lean product delivery and adoption of LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) as their chosen framework.=>Pitched, designed, and co-facilitated 2.5-day in-person workshop with 70 participant stakeholders. Outcomes were 1) collective prioritization of work; 2) recognition of organizational impediments; 3) reduced work in progress; 4) relationship building; 5) allocation of capacity for varied types of work owned by product teams (i.e., old, new, broken, admin). Prepared participating business stakeholders with interactive training on goal setting and prioritization. =>Trained eight teams via experiential learning modules included Agile Mindset, Scrum Fundamentals, Project-to-Product, Story Mapping, Goal Setting & Prioritization, and a deep-dive on Backlog Refinement. The focused learning increased the effectiveness of coaching and accelerated adoption of new ways of thinking and working. =>Facilitated, and trained and coached POs on product ownership, defining their product vision, whole product backlog, jobs-to-be-done, experimentation, user story mapping, personas, prioritization, refinement facilitation.=>Co-designed and co-facilitated 2-part custom leadership training on Product Mindset and Collective Ownership to prepare for the workshop.=>Coached Scrum Masters in fundamentals of organizational coaching which included them identifying the top five organizational improvement opportunities and developing a coaching approach for each; Summarized observations from year-long consulting engagement and provided next-step recommendations for client-led continuation of business agility transformation

=>Coached organization leaders and delivery teams through a pilot of a new product-centric model of working through which Business and Technology build a “whole product” together through User-Centered Design, Product Management, Adaptability and Flexibility, and System Thinking. Within three months, idea-to-delivery (lead) time was reduced from 64 weeks to 11 weeks.=>Co-created a Playbook to serve as a common knowledge base for how to discover and deliver value to customers=>Provided interactive Product Training and Workshops to 150 business and technology associates plus leadership, management and coaches to promote the shared language and understanding necessary for elevating and aligning the product development operating model=>Provided Back-to-Basics coaching of coaches on Just Enough Scrum and Agile Framework, Values, and Principles, and facilitated Communities of Practice to promote a solid foundation on which the transformation could progress

=>Worked as Agile Coach at UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement Insurance Solutions providing individual, team and large group coaching, facilitation and training.=>Guided the client’s Agile leadership team to organizational breakthroughs using experiential learning and visualization of Lean- Agile values, principles and practices with an emphasis on business agility.

=>Worked as Agile Coach to twenty-five experienced software engineering teams utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) at VirginPulse.=>Facilitated team self-assessments relative to essential Lean-Agile competencies and delivered customized team and organizational improvement recommendations.=>Recommended actions for next-level performance customized for each team.=>Presented a summary of team-level strengths/opportunities to Product & Engineering leaders.=>Recommended next steps in the organization’s SAFe implementation.

Plymouth, Minnesota

Plymouth, Mn

Lead Agile Coach / Agile Business & Technology Transformation - SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC) - Enterprise Agile Coach - Presenter, Trainer, Facilitator Previous:Program Manager & Senior Business Analyst across a broad spectrum of distribution, new business acquisition, producer compensation, and policyholder service functions.