Angela Druckman is a Certified Scrum Trainer at CollabNet. Having served as a Product Owner, ScrumMaster and team member, Angela has seen first-hand how agile practices and Scrum, in particular, can lead organizations to project success. As one of CollabNet's Certified Scrum Trainers and a member of its ScrumCORE team, Angela helps organizations harness the Scrum framework's potential, conducting dozens of public training courses each year, as well as providing on-site, private coaching. Prior to joining CollabNet, Angela served as a senior project manager at Vertex Business Services. While at Vertex, Angela not only coached client project managers and development staff on the implementation of agile software development practices, but also justified the framework's business value to internal senior management. Angela's previous experience also includes working as a program manager with B-Line, LLC, where she developed custom solutions for the nation's largest purchaser of bankruptcy receivables. A graduate of the University of Washington, Angela studied computing and software systems. For more on Angela's thoughts about Scrum, visit her blog at http://blogs.danube.com/author/angela-druckman. She can also be reached at adruckman@collab.net.
When organizations discover agile software frameworks such as Scrum, they learn that an important benefit these methods offer is the ability to expose organizational impediments. Indeed, a key responsibility of the ScrumMaster role, in addition to facilitation and coaching, is raising and removing organizational impediments. But, while on paper it seems innocuous enough, in practice […]