Walter Harrist
Results driven Agile Coach and Scrum Master for both custom development and SaaS software teams. Empowers teams to reach their potential through a servant leader approach and guiding them to self-sufficiency.
- Role
- Scrum Master, Agile Coach at Elevance Health
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Walter Harrist
Results driven Scrum Master and Coach for both custom development as well as SaaS software teams. Empowers teams to reach their potential through a servant leader approach and guiding them to self-sufficiency. Champion and coach on best practices within the team, and to the company. Drives process improvement and implement change management to transition from Waterfall to Agile. Builds relationships with Product Owners, Engineering, and other stakeholders to facilitate team\'s performance. CSM, PSM I, SFC and SPOAC certified. SAFe, IP Planning, Scrum, Kanban.Focused on continuous improvement and high-performing, happy Teams.
Experience
Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Apr 2022 — Present
Coaching on principles of openness, courage and providing an open and transparent environment so the team can grow into experimentation. Demonstrating and guiding on active listening skills and a culture of mutual support. • Collaborated with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of Scrum in the organization. • Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes. • Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of product backlog. • Developed and maintained information radiators for the teams.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy
Skills
- Communications
- Market Analysis
- Market Research
- Certified Scrum Master Csm
- Marketing
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Marketing Strategy
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Business Planning
- Strategic Partnerships
- Change Management
- Sales
- Agile Methodologies
- Integration
- Management
- Agile Project Management
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Project Planning
- Product Marketing
- Leadership
- Enterprise Software
- Start-Ups
- Training
- Consulting
- Telecommunications
- Product Development
- Process Improvement
- Program Management
- Professional Scrum Master Psm I
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified Sfc
- Sdlc
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