Stephanie Bryant
Agile coach and consultant for remote teams
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Stephanie Bryant helps remote teams reduce friction in their Agile processes and improve their productivity, with a smile and a cohortative approach to training and education. She has been servant-leading agile teams for 8 years as a scrum master, agile coach, and trainer. She currently works for Roll20 supporting 6 agile teams, and consults for other clients at Ritsukolifts to improve their organizations' processes and tools. In her spare time, Stephanie writes games, plays bass in a rock band, knits obsessively, and recently took up roller skating in a blatant attempt to rekindle her youth by breaking a bone.
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Jira Power Hour for Reluctant Jira Users
When you took on the role of team leader, whether as product owner, scrum master, or a development lead, you may have found yourself suddenly in charge of a large, difficult to use tool called Jira.
Jira is a powerful tool that can bring a lot of value to your team-- but it can also bring a lot of headaches if you're unfamiliar with it. Add in Jira Service Manager, and you may be making some time-consuming and costly decisions!
In this talk, you'll learn the difference between a project, a board, and a dashboard, and how to use them to view your data in a manageable way. You'll also learn how to quickly quiet down the firehose of notifications, even if you're not the administrator.
A large dedicated Q&A section will help answer your specific questions about how Jira works and how you might be able to improve it for your teams.
5 Things You're Doing Right - And 1 Way to Do Them Better
If you’re an agile practitioner supporting a team, you probably have a good foundation for how to follow the scrum guide. However, Agile is a process of becoming, not so much a destination. You’re doing these scrum events just fine, but it may be time to take it to the next level!
This workshop for beginning to intermediate agile practitioners, focuses on 5 common Agile practices. In a very short period of time, we collaboratively generate at least one suggestion (and likely many more!) to improve on: Standups, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Retrospectives, and communication outside the team.
The Many Wonderful Hats You Wear! Coaching, consulting, and training Agile teams
Experienced Agile practitioners are often called on at different times to be coaches, problem-solvers, and trainers for their teams, but you need different skills for each approach. What should you do if you’re a strong problem-solver, but you don’t even know what a coach does outside a sports field?
This talk covers each approach to team improvement and how an individual servant-leader can identify when a team benefits from coaching, problem-solving, or training for any particular scenario. In addition, I’ll cover how to identify how to switch your mindset to the meet those needs, or to develop the skills you might require to be an effective coach, solver, or trainer to best help your team thrive.
During the Q&A, we’ll workshop questions from the audience about whether a particular problem or team scenario calls for coaching, problem-solving, or training.
Lessons from Goldilocks: Being a Good Stakeholder During Sprint Reviews
Whether you're using Scrum or Kanban, or any of the many approaches to agile project management (and predictive project management as well), you will run into some form of work review. This might be a review, or a handoff stage, or a gatekeeper where there's a person, or a team, or a group of stakeholders who look at the work product and decide if it is acceptable to your target customer. As an agile practitioner, learn how to guide your stakeholders with interactive training/coaching to help them get the most out of product reviews and stakeholder engagement moments. Key topics include:
* Stakeholder roles
* Helping Stakeholders demonstrate good review participation
* Different forms of stakeholder prioritization feedback and how to get Stakeholders to use them
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