Agile Coach, Wolters Kluwer, USA/ EPAM 

Client: Wolters Kluwer, USA/ EPAM 

Role: Agile Coach 

Nov 2015 – Dec 2015 

Ohio, USA 

Wolters Kluwer needed to make their IT/Software development teams more efficient and responsive to business needs. 

As the agile specialist on a team of five experts I assessed Wolters’ agile practices and made recommendations on improvements to development practices, tools and team organization. 

• I interviewed team members and built a model of WK’s development pipeline. 

• Collaborating with other members of EPAM’s investigative team we identified improvement areas to WK’s development activities. 

Specifically, I made recommendations on: 

• Reducing follow-the-sun development and using cross functional teams 

• Use of a single backlog 

• Use of collaborative tools like Eclipse Che 

• Impediment identification and removal 

• Including DevOps staff as regular team members 

• Backlog item creation and prioritization 

• User stories 

• Acceptance criteria 

• Test Driven Design (TDD)