Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile is difficult. Scaling Agile at an Enterprise level while other teams remain Waterfall is especially challenging. Gain insights from Sprint’s story of what steps to take to successfully apply Agile at scale and how to continue Agile successes while coordinating work with Waterfall teams.
Manager, Applications Development, Sprint
Sprint, Manager, Applications Development Melissa Crouch has over 18 years of software development experience including project management, coding, and application development management. Melissa currently manages a group of Agile practitioners within Sprint’s IT Solutions Delivery organization. While Sprint IT has leveraged scrum and Agile for years in pockets of our organization, Melissa was chosen to be a leader in our official Enterprise IT level move toward Agile in 2012. When Melissa transitioned to Sprint in 1999 she was part of a small technical group embedded with a business team. She saw first-hand the effectiveness of closely coupling business ideas with technical solutions in-person on a daily basis. Melissa is committed to bringing that same level of partnership at scale while still accommodating Enterprise standards and complex architectures. Melissa has a computer science degree from Missouri State University and holds the following certifications: CSM, CSPO, SAFe Agilist, and PMP. She also serves on the Agilehood KC board helping local companies to learn about Agile together.