Hospitality client was introducing the Agile Scrum methodology to it's development team environment, and needed a firm to provide coaching / mentoring to the development team for a highly visible project. The Client faced many roadblocks, organizationally, to successfully make the transition from a traditional waterfall development shop to a more nimble, Agile Scrum development environment.  MATRIX provided an Agile Coach, with extensive experience in Scrum project development to facilitate and educate client Scrum teams through the day-to-day application of the Scrum framework.  The MATRIX coach lead: User Story gathering, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.  Additionally the MATRIX coach taught team members the ins-and-outs of agile estimation, helping the team determine the product size through Story Point estimation and schedule derivation.  MATRIX also ensured that during engagement, the Agile Coach was shadowed by a fully dedicated employee who would assume the responsibilities upon his departure, thus enabling IHG to use the “Seed and Grow” model for transitioning Scrum throughout the enterprise. The initial sixteen (16) week engagement was extended twice, based on the position contributions and accomplishments of the client Agile teams.