Merrill B Lamont III

Hi @JoinTheFlock, I'm @mlamont : Biomedical engineer turned blogging scrum master. Beatboxing pianist for fun. Cappuccino sipper for fire. Agile Coach for hire.

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1/ Dear @JoinTheFlock: Global. Happiness. There, I said it. Twitter directly contributes towards #globalhappiness. How, you ask?

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2/ I believe we can enjoy the journey towards global happiness most efficiently & effectively by you fully expressing yourself.

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3/ I also believe that lowering the barrier to creating & sharing catalyzes the fuller expression of every person.

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4/ All through creating & sharing with ease, Twitter is and can be a platform for oh so much, including, yes, global happiness.

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5/ Now you know my high-flying beliefs. Now you know why I want to help. Now you know why I want to be your Agile Coach.

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6/ While I have instantiated #Scrum from scratch at Engineering & Product departments,

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7/ I have worked with the uniqueness of each delivery team, encouraging an #experimentalmindset beyond setting #kaizen from retrospectives,

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8/ which leads to teams feeling an #ownership of their process & efficiency: @zipcar, we incorporated #Kanban practices and #Lean thinking.

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9/ Facilitating Definitions of Done, Ready, and Fun (working agreement) per team resulted in a healthy #balance between

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10/ team #selforganization, like grooming stories so that they feel small, and department guidelines, like an agreement to do unit testing.

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11/ Using the #BuildMeasureLearn cycle, I have coached Product Managers to shift focus from measuring output per team to

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12/ tracking outcomes per release. By tying epics back to project goals and company #vision, each release with targeted analytics triggers

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13/ a #continuousconversation about if we are doing the right thing, ultimately prompting a data-driven decision to #pivotorpersevere.

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14/ This #transparency of purpose and progress is something I take seriously since it directly impacts the #fulfillment of our

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15/ day-time family: the people with whom we spend a quarter of our working lives.

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16/ Caring for our teammates with this lense accompanies the #psychologicalsafety I have brought to team cultivation.

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17/ By encouraging #empathy and modeling #vulnerability, I aim for intra-team connecting to see what we can all share to benefit each other.

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18/ This is how the real fun happens.

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19/ Driving my inclusive approach to situations, both new & familiar, is a core motivation that is best captured in my resume summary:

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20/ "I believe teams are purposeful communities of people with gifts, to be respected & celebrated.