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Tara Rock

Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Delivery Manager
  • Suggested rate
    On-demand
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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London, England, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Tara in a few words
Experienced Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Delivery Manager with a proven track record of leading cultural change initiatives, delivering value-driven customer products and building high- performing, motivated teams using agile, lean and bespoke techniques. A forward-thinking problem solver and change agent with a passion for developing others and creating environments where teams and individuals can thrive. My specialism is helping startups that are on their journey to scale.

Outside of freelancing, I am a Leadership and Career Coach that works with a variety of professionals helping them with their confidence, careers and leadership skills.
Experience
  • Freelance
    Freelance Agile Coach
    TECH
    July 2022 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
    Helping a range of clients deliver value-driven products and increase operational efficiency by adopting agile & lean best practices to their ways of working enabling high-performance and agility.
  • Pollen
    Senior Agile Coach / Agile Coach
    TECH
    April 2021 - June 2022 (1 year and 2 months)
    London, UK
    - Defined the Agile Coaching strategy and framework to serve over ~600 people across tech and non-tech departments.
    - Coached and advised C-level, VPs, Engineering Managers and Product Managers in agile ways of working and team maturity assessments.
    - Partnered with C-level executives on the roll out of 4x cross- functional global business pods.
    - Delivered agile 101 training sessions covering the agile values and principles serving ~150 across Tech to deepen their knowledge in agile.
    - Partnered with Engineering Managers to implement cycle time metrics to drive continuous improvement across ~150 in tech.
    - Onboarded ~90 new starters on OKR goal setting best practice.
  • Pollen
    Delivery Manager/Scrum Master
    TECH
    August 2019 - April 2021 (1 year and 8 months)
    London, England, United Kingdom
    - Delivered customer checkout platform generating over ~£100m in GMV with over 440k customer bookings.
    - Formed 4x Engineering & Product teams and defined their ways of working utilising Scrum and Kanban frameworks leading to self-organisation and high-performance within 6 months. - Facilitated agile events such as retrospectives, sprint planning, demo's, refinement and scrum of scrums to drive continuous improvement across 4x teams.
    - Defined and rolled out Technical support workflow, processes and SLA's leading to a reduction in lead time by 70%.
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Education
  • GCSE
    Vale of Catmose College
    GCSE
Certifications
  • ORS@Work
    CRR Global
    2022
  • Co-Active Fundamentals
    Co-Active Training Institute
    2021
  • Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
    IC Agile
    2020
  • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
    Scrum Alliance
    2018
  • Team Topologies Distilled
    Team Topologies
    2023
    https://academy.teamtopologies.com/certificates/nlhyituvwy