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Scott Bruce

Minneapolis, MN

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Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster

Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner

Certified Scrum Developer®

Certified ScrumMaster®

Certified Scrum Product Owner®

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Title: Agile/Scrum Coach

Scott Bruce

Product Development Agilist with a creative spark

Agile Coach, Product focused, Human Centered, CSP, CLP

Positive change catalyst, fostering a relentless desire to improve, and delivering innovative products with a sense of urgency. Dynamic communicator and facilitator of high performing teams. Proven track facilitating and coaching continuous discovery and continuous delivery to create products that delight. Lead and coach high performance teams, clarify vision and roadmap, prioritize and refine backlog, conduct Sprint planning and reviews. Naturally curious, constant learner. Skilled communicator, capable of bridging groups from diverse perspectives and disciplines.

Personal Narrative:

Scott is a Team & Enterprise Agile Coach with experience leading and participating in Agile Transformations. Scott’s approach to lean agile product development is informed by thought leaders such as Marty Cagan, Jeff Patton, and Teresa Torres, teaching teams how to develop a product-centric mindset with strong customer feedback loops, continuous discovery and delivery. He is a systems thinker, studies and integrates organizational development and design principles into his coaching practice on how to effectively navigate change. Scott is naturally curious, a lifelong learner and has a genuine passion for learning, teaching, and achieving shared understanding.

Core Competencies:

Sprint Planning & Review | Continuous Improvement with Retrospectives | Story Mapping and MVP definition

Experience and services

Career history
- 2018-05-28 - present - Optum / UHG (Agile Coach)
- 2013-05-29 - 2015-05-22 - Nortek Air Solutions (Business Analyst)
- 2015-05-27 - 2016-02-14 - Merrill Corporation (Sr Business Analyst)
- 2016-02-15 - 2017-11-01 - Merrill Corporation (Product Owner)
- 2018-03-12 - 2018-05-25 - Northrup Grumman (Scum Master / Agile Coach)