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I have over 25 years of experience in software development in a variety of roles such as Developer, Project Manager, Consultant and Chief Technology Officer. Over the last 7 years, I have provided thought leadership, training and coaching to new and experienced teams interested in agile practices including Lean/Kanban, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP). My unique focus in helping companies achieve organizational agility and transformation beyond development teams using a mix of techniques and models like SAFe, Lean Startup, Lean UX, Leadership Agility and others. My certifications include... Read more

With my company Agility Scales, I am inventing the future of organizational agility. Why are we wasting our time learning how to manage companies, when very soon computers will navigate us through our work-lives and help us to lead and manage our teams?

As a serial founder, successful entrepreneur, author and speaker, I am pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. I offer concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. I also offer a platform for you to share your practices and stories with the... Read more

As Principal and Founder of River Rock Endeavors, Brent strives to bring agility into the business side of organizations so we can leverage what lean and agile methods offer. Previously, Brent was a Product Line Director at Rally Software. Rally Software acquired Agile Advantage, Inc. in 2012 where Brent was President. Also in 2012, Brent’s company received Gartner’s “Cool Vendor Award” for Portfolio Management. Brent has unique insights into the challenges from increased intensity that iterative and incremental development brings to Product and Program portfolios. Brent’s passion...

Simon is currently Managing Principal for LASTing Benefits (UK / Australia).

LASTing Benefits is a boutique consultancy specialising in augmenting Lean and Agile adoptions with cognitive complexity and systems thinking techniques to create self sustaining organisational change.

Simon's particular interest and expertise lie in how the systems and scenarios we find ourselves in drive our behaviour; specifically the ways in which we view and interact with each other and how this affects our perceptions of the world and our decision making processes.

This interest in human systems began in the... Read more

I care about the craft of writing good, working code. I have a passion for agile practices that help enforce repeatable, predictable behavior and produce software clients actually want to use. Areas of particular interest include architecture, security, application usability, CI, and testing at all levels.

David Scott Bernstein is the author of the new book _Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software._ It’s an insider’s view of the software industry drawn from his decades of hands-on experience as a software developer, trainer, and consultant to some of the biggest players in the business. With its emphasis on technical excellence, the primary audience for _Beyond Legacy Code_ is software development managers and their teams.

David’s continuing passion for software design and construction has led him to train more than 8,000 developers since 1989 at hundreds of companies around the world including Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft—where his book’s advice has been successfully applied. His consulting firm, To Be Agile (http://ToBeAgile.com), helps developers adopt Extreme Programming practices such as test-first development, pair programming, and refactoring... Read more

Organizational Coaching, Lean Startup, Business Model Generation, Customer Development, Kanban

Samuel Mikel Bowles' started his 16 year career at Burger King where he held the ambiguous title of webmaster. Still a polyglot he works as a visual & interaction designer, front end developer, and Agile practitioner at Mutually Human. He is a dedicated practitioner and international speaker on light-weight design methodologies such as Agile and Lean. He's spoken at GLSEC, Future of Web Design, UX Lisbon, Midwest UX, and the Agile Conference. He is co-founder of the financial planning company Spend Wisely (creators of Chext), a member of the advisory board for Human Practice a Chicago-based healthcare... Read more

Rowan Bunning is a pioneer of Scrum in Australia. With a background in object-oriented software design, web architecture and information systems, Rowan was introduced to Agile development techniques over a decade ago as "the way good Smalltalkers develop software". Seeing the need for deep organisational and project management change to better leverage such disciplined technical practices, Rowan became Australia's first Certified Scrum Practitioner and Certified Scrum Trainer.

Rowan has built extensive experience training, leading and coaching Agile adoptions across Australia, New Zealand... Read more

Virginia Cagwin is a UX Consultant for Slalom Consulting that practices Lean UX methods to help teams gain shared understanding, focus, and communication. Virginia started her design career has a graphic artist working on brands such as McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. She's worked for startups and Fortune 500 companies over the last 12 years focusing on enterprise software. Prior to Slalom, Virginia worked for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. supporting entertainment brands TBS, TNT, and TCM. She 2.5 years in London working for Thunderhead.com introducing agile and lean principles... Read more

Paul is a Testing expert, Agile coach, interactive teacher, Rubyist, comic relief, and efficiency enthusiast with over 20 years of experience in various domains. A Quality consultant by trade, Paul helps companies deliver world-class value. Beware: his eyes sparkle when he talks about Testing and his passion is infectious. Paul is the author of the forthcoming book "Put Your Mind To The Test."

Alida is a Senior Program Manager and ScrumMaster at Salesforce.com, and was one of the first ScrumMasters and a key member of the Salesforce.com Agile Rollout Team during the R&D organizations enterprise-wide “big bang” transformation to agile. Since then she has worked with numerous Scrum teams with different “personalities”, designed training material, and provided professional coaching.

Avid people-watcher, teacher and do-er.

I am an independent Agile coach focused on helping teams and organizations find success applying Agile principles. I spent many years on project teams performing roles ranging from developer to designer to project manager to product manager. During that time I witnessed first-hand the success of iterative development as compared with waterfall processes and I experienced the importance of building relationships and valuing people. I am passionate about sharing what Ive learned and partnering with my clients to discover an Agile journey that is right for their unique situation.

George Dinwiddie helps organizations develop software more effectively. He brings decades of development experience from electronic hardware and embedded firmware to business information technology. He helps
organizations, managers, and teams solve the problems they face by providing consulting, coaching, mentoring and training at the organizational, process, team, interpersonal, and technical levels. Involved in the Agile community since 2000, he has helped organizations ranging from a 6-person startup to a Fortune 100 company and a billion-plus dollar federal program, either directly or in partnership with other companies. He is the author of Software Estimation without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World (Pragmatic Bookshelf), Evolutionary Anatomy of Test Automation Code (LeanPub... Read more

A PhD researcher from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Through a Grounded Theory study which involved 55 participants from 38 different software companies in the USA, India and Australia, I investigated key concerns of distributed teams in Agile software development. Subsequently I developed a grounded theory -- "The Theory of One-team: Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams" -- which explicates how a distributed team in Agile software development adopts explicit strategies for bridging spatial, temporal and socio-cultural distances, while facing critical impact factors... Read more

Growing up in the 1980s I was a passionate computer game developer during my school and study times. After getting my diploma in Electrical engineering I started at Ericsson in 1994 as aSW developer. From 1996 I worked in project management roles. Since 2000 I am working as a manager, first heading a Project Office, later Systems- and Technology Management and since2009 the Portfolio and Technology Management for Mobile Core. In 2008 I was a key contributor to the agile transition of our organization. I am supporting the enterprise transition to lean and agile by consulting and teaming up with... Read more

Will Evans explores the convergence of practice and theory using Lean Systems, Design Thinking, and LeanUX with global corporations from NYC to Berlin to Singapore. As Chief Design Officer at PraxisFlow, he works with a select group of corporate clients undergoing Lean and Agile transformations across the entire organization. Will is also the Design Thinker-in-Residence at NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.Will was previously the Managing Director of TLCLabs, the world's leading Lean Design Innovation consultancy where he has brought Lean Startup, LeanUX, and Design... Read more

Mac is a motivated, dynamic leader and problem solver who focuses on serving both internal and external customers. An experienced coach, mentor, trainer that is continually learning and looking for ways to improve. Looking for a position with a growing company where I can apply the skills and talents I have, learn new ones, and make a positive impact in the work environment and the customers I serve.

I'm the UX Lead at Vivisimo, an IBM Company, building enterprise search software. I have been practicing, introducing and spearheading Agile and UX methods at Vivisimo with the ultimate goal to improve communication, gain shared understanding and increase happiness.

I strive to empower others and to improve the way our growing Engineering team deliver and work together.

In my previous life, I was a Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing researcher. I have a PhD in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards agile methods of working. Bob has been doing that since the late 1990s, so he’s deeply experienced. He is President of RGCG, which is a boutique agile coaching firm.

Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to agile software development, testing, scaling, and organizational leadership. He is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), CAL I trainer, and an active member of... Read more

Dr. Israel Gat is an independent software and IT consultant specializing in large scale end-to-end engagements. He is recognized as the architect of the agile transformation at BMC Software where, under his leadership, Scrum users increased from zero to 1,000, resulting in nearly three times faster time to market than industry average and 20%-50% improvement in team productivity. Among other accolades for leading this transformation, Dr. Gat was presented with an Innovator of the Year Award from Application Development Trends in 2006.
Dr. Gat's executive career spans top technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Digital, and EMC. He has led the development of products such as BMC Performance Manager and Microsoft Operations Manager, enabling the two companies to move toward next-generation system management technology. Dr. Gat is also well versed in growing smaller companies and has held advisory and venture capital positions for companies in new, high-growth markets. He currently splits his time between consulting and writing. He focuses on technical debt, large-scale implementations of lean software methods, and devops... Read more

Mary coaches teams and facilitates agile product discovery workshops. She trains business, customer and technology stakeholders in collaborative practices essential for defining high value products. Mary speaks at industry conferences and writes for the Agile, business analysis and project management communities. Mary is co-author with Ellen Gottesdiener of the recently released book Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis.

Having worked in software for 30 years I focus my energy and efforts working with executives to create the conditions where teams can flourish developing business value. I facilitate team learning and interdependent work. This includes assessments, embedded coaching, focused coaching, public and private workshops.

I lead sessions at Agile meetups across the southeast, from Richmond, VA to Knoxville, TN to Charleston, SC. Topics range from Agile fundamentals to team dynamics to shaping Agile Adoptions.

I co-wrote two books with Jerry Weinberg, Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman: “Center... Read more

Peter Green led a grass roots Agile transformation at Adobe from 2005 to 2015, starting with his own team, Adobe Audition. His influence includes the teams behind such software flagships as Photoshop, Acrobat, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, as well as dozens of internal IT and platform technology teams and groups such as marketing and globalization. His work was a major factor enabling Adobe product teams to successfully transition from perpetual desktop products to the subscription-based service, Creative Cloud. His hands-on Scrum and Agile training and coaching at all levels... Read more

James Grenning trains, coaches and consults worldwide bringing modern technical and management practices to embedded systems development. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C (http://wingman-sw.com/tddec). He invented Planning Poker, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. His website is http://wingman-sw.com.

Mike Griffiths is an experienced project manager and agile coach with a long history of contributions to the agile and project management community. He helped create the agile approach, DSDM, in 1994 and has been using agile approaches on his projects ever since. He served on the board of directors for the Agile Alliance and Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and remains active in the agile community.

He is also a frequent contributor to the project management community, as he tries to spread the agile message. He was chair of the author group that wrote the new “PMI Agile Practice Guide,” codeveloped with the Agile Alliance. He was on the steering committee that created the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification, and wrote RMC’s “PMI-ACP® Exam Prep” book. He also cowrote the “Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide” and participates in the PMI mentor program. When not contributing to standards or publications, he trains and consults on effective project and prod... Read more

Developer/High-Tech Anthropologist® for Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, MI. We do custom design and development for a wide variety of clients, leveraging Agile and Lean practices to make sure they capitalize on the Business Value of Joy. I joined the team in 2011 and have gone from zero to Agile in no time flat, leading tours and teaching one-day courses to help spread the good word.

Business Agility, Product Discovery and Lean Experimentation.

John Heintz is the president and principal technologist of Gist Labs. He is an experienced agile manager, particularly in lean and kanban. In 2008, John founded Gist Labs to further focus on the essential criteria for innovative success. John’s accomplishments include doubling the feature throughput of a large game studio, showing nine teams in India how to create and align around their own common Roadmap and release plan, teaching managers to focus their team’s effort and avoid dilution of capacity, and mentoring developers/testers in software craftsmanship.

John began his career as a technologist, always seeking solutions with greater leverage and deeper simplicity. His approach to systems and team building emerged in 1999 while leading his first Scrum team, followed by leading a team in XP and test-driven development in 2001. John has consulted with clients on various engagements, including Agile, Kanban, enterprise architecture, test automation architecture, XP development practices, lean value stream mapping, and RESTful/messaging architectures. He has built single-source hyperdocument SGML publishing systems, Linked Data and NoSql solutions, a v... Read more

Elisabeth Hendrickson is a leader in software engineering. She most recently served as VP R&D for Pivotal Software, Inc. A lifelong learner, she has spent time in every facet of software development, from project management to design for companies ranging from small start-ups to multinational software vendors. She has helped organizations build software in a more efficient way and pioneered a new way to think about achieving quality outcomes and how that hinges on fast and effective feedback loops. Her book, Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing, was release... Read more

Adrian Howard is passionate about building effective teams and great products. He co-founded Quietstars to help organisations do that using Lean, Agile and User Experience practices.

You'll find Adrian working with startup and product development teams — doing everything from coaching & teaching to hands on user experience & development work

With more than fifteen years experience working with startups, established businesses and agencies Adrian is an active member of the Agile and Lean UX communities. He organised the UX Stage at the Agile 2010 and Agile 2012 conferences, and regular... Read more

Author of Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide from Addison Wesley

David teaches and coaches continuous learning thru product discovery and iterative delivery. 20+ years of coaching product learning into eco-systems of all sizes and shapes around the world has shaped David’s non-dogmatic and pragmatic style. David spends most of his time working directly with teams, helping people learn to create and validate product ideas using discovery tools before employing responsive engineering. David also works directly with leadership groups, helping them promote the least amount of real and measurable change that leads to lasting product agility and competitive innovation

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