Bill Schaller

Ottawa, Ontario/Canada

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Title: Agile Coach / ScrumMaster / Lean Management

Bill Schaller

Agile coach/trainer within e-business, mobile, digital media and data networking organizations.  Proven success working with teams to form creative work environments where collaboration, productivity and results flourish.   I accomplish this through training, workshop facilitation and hands-on coaching where teams are able to become self-organizing. Leadership at all organizational levels to establish trusting relationships with stakeholders and teams to implement SCRUM, Agile, XP and Lean management practices.  Skilled in all facets of software development life-cycle.

Specializing in the development/execution of new organizational capabilities that significantly improve end-to-end delivery of business value. With a focus on employee engagement, team collaboration and leadership development to enable rapid delivery of features, improved product quality and time-to-market reliability.

  • 15 years of product and software development experience
  • 8 years as ScrumMaster, Agile coach, trainer and facilitator
  • Hands on experience transitioning teams from a functional/silo mentality to a collaborative product/customer centric organization.
  • Lean business modeling and analytics, to accelerate the flow of features, and create a focused understanding of market drivers that synergize design thinking with customer value.
  • Advanced leadership coaching to align management and development teams towards breaking down common barriers and enhancing collaboration across business units.
  • Experienced in training/coaching Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Agile Testing, Product Backlog Design, Lean Analytics, Business Model Generation, Product Innovation Games and Design Canvases.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2014-09-29 - present - The Braintrust Consulting Group (Agile Coach/Trainer)