James Baker

I'm an Agile Delivery Lead and Scrum Master with 15+ years of enterprise experience mentoring teams, driving organizational transformation, and managing complex programs across financial services and agriculture finance — with $5M+ in documented savings. I specialize in building lasting Agile capability: the culture, governance, and team maturity that makes delivery work at scale.

Additionally, I am the Author of Scrum AI: The Agile Inversion (Amazon/IngramSpark, 2026), a 750-page guide and playbook to understanding and operationalizing artificial intelligence within Agile delivery frameworks — grounded in years of personal research, hands-on study, and enterprise delivery experience.

What I bring to an organization:
• Delivery Leadership — I've managed teams of up to 10 developers, QA engineers, analysts, and contractors across four time zones, owning full program lifecycle including budgeting, resource planning, risk mitigation, and executive stakeholder alignment.
• Agile Coaching & Transformation — CSM and CSPO certified with deep hands-on experience as both Scrum Master and Delivery Lead. I've coached teams to 20% velocity improvements and 15% faster delivery cycles. I focus on sustainable transformation — building Agile capability that outlasts my involvement.
• Change Management — Championed enterprise change management across multiple delivery teams, ensuring governance compliance while keeping teams aligned and productive.
• Financial Services Domain Knowledge — Core banking systems, data governance, regulatory compliance, loan origination, and global commodities trading across 15+ years in financial services and agriculture finance.
• AI Thought Leadership — My expertise in AI and its application to Agile delivery is documented in Scrum AI: The Agile Inversion and validated through certifications from the Scrum Alliance, IBM, and the Blockchain Council.

Based in Wichita, Kansas, I operate as a highly disciplined remote professional, having led distributed teams across four time zones for six consecutive years. Open to fully remote opportunities nationally and hybrid arrangements with Wichita-area organizations.

Currently I am exploring the following 100% remote roles in the United States: Agile AI Delivery Lead | Enterprise Agile Coach | Agile Transformation Lead | Agile Practice Lead | Agile Delivery Lead, Robotic Process Automation, and Director roles.