Curtis Cooley

Experienced Agile Coach with over 20 years experience leading whole teams in Agile adoption. Head Shot

Adept in Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies fostering cultures of teamwork and collaboration.

Proven track record in facilitating meetings and ceremonies that drive continuous improvement and reachable goals.

Skilled in refactoring, unit testing, and maintainability.

  • Coached a team of COBOL developers in Java and XP practices; their project was low priority, but it was the first system to deploy to production.
  • Took a team using the first and fourth sprint in a release as “hardening sprints” to zero hardening sprints.
  • Mentored a team in planning and preparation so they could plan 8 weeks of work in half a day instead of two and a half days.
  • Taught a team how to split stories and swarm which reduced cycle time by 80%.
  • Moved a team from corporate headquarters and cubicles to an open space environment increasing productivity by more than 50% as measured by points per sprint.

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