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Certifications Received

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert certifies that Callum Elliott is, at a minimum, qualified to help others in the use of the skill Agile Software Development, by Coaching their team, based on this evidence:

Callum has gone through a rigorous in-house agile coach training program that called for a minimum 3 months experience coaching a team, guidance of a Mentor Coach, and verification by an Observer Coach. (Mentor and Observer being experienced agile coaches.) I was the Mentor Coach for Callum as he went through the traineeship period. I recommended him for the company's internal certification, and was present later on as he coached his own new team.

Callum has coached for a period of 18 months now where I have been able to directly observe his handling of a wide variety of difficult challenges. He has used good judgement, and has grown in his ability to help others (Product Owner, Team members) to handle their roles better. The most important aspects of agile coaching can only be learned by doing, and Callum has demonstrated that he has "the right stuff".

Certifications Given

Callum Elliott certifies that Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill Agile Coach, based on this evidence:

Nancy pioneered agile practices at a large waterfall based organisation I worked as a development lead in. I was a member of one of the first teams that she coached and we were producing quality software in record time thanks to her guiding hand.

I was elected as the coach for that team and she supported and steered me at every opportunity in basic and advanced agile practices. Even when it seemed that, due to a large agile project failure, agile was not going to work in the orgnaisation she still pushed through the use of certain technical practices (TDD and Continuous Integration) to ensure high software quality.