My first experience working with an Agile team and a remote client.

During the first half of 2019, I worked as a developer & project lead with an Agile team of 5 to deliver a secure and stable Drupal 8 website to a remote financial services client located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was a student volunteer effort to complete my senior capstone project at DePaul University. We rebuilt our client's existing Drupal 7 website from the ground up in a shared, cloud-based Linux development server, and the final deliverable can be seen live on the Chakra Advisors website.

I led the scrum team through one-week sprint cycles, facilitating all Agile ceremonies and guiding us through each milestone. Halfway through the project we found that a Kanban workflow was better suited to the needs of the project since the client's requirements were very clear. We developed a hybrid approach that allowed us to streamline our development process. I facilitated our Slack channel and kept it well-organized so that the team could communicate clearly and frequently, and I learned a lot about the importance of open and honest communication in an Agile development environment.