Per Tiff

Per Tiff - My experience with projects and project management began after I left the Navy and started a landscape construction company. I joined the corporate world in 1998 with Resources Trust Company. I was schooled as a BA/PM through their homegrown training program (based in BABOK).  Ten years later I was working for HealthGrades Inc., this is when and where I learned about Agile, Scrum and Scrumban.  After a year of working through all the issues of the transition, we had a couple of teams using Scrumban while others used Scrum.  I joined the The State of Colorado CBMS Team in 2013 to assist them with creating a sustainable Agile program using Scrum.  The impediments I encountered required a gradual change rather than a "kitchen sink" approach. The CBMS management insisted on running Scrum and Waterfall simultaneously due to a contractual agreement.  GTT-IT provided me with a true Scrum Master position at Thomson Reuters that proved quite satisfying but did not last much past the initial contract due to budget limits for the upcoming year.   I just completed a stint as an Agile Business Analyst with Great-West Financial which was cut short due to budget concerns. My latest adventure was with Greenbrier Managemeent Services (who knew railroads would use Agile?) as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, JIra Admin, and Office Manager.